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• Director, Eastern Region

  Mersky, Jaffe & Associates has been retained to conduct a search for the Director, Eastern Region, for the Simon Wiesenthal Center.  Located in New York City, the Director will lead the Center’s major gifts efforts in New York and the tri-state area.  The Director, Eastern Region of the Simon Wiesenthal Center reports directly to the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Executive Director.
  
  The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to repairing the world one step at a time.  The Center’s multifaceted mission generates changes through the Snider Social Action Institute and education by confronting anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing with Israel, defending the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaching the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations.  With a constituency of more than 400,000 households in the United States, it is accredited as an NGO at international organizations including the United Nations, UNESCO, and the Council of Europe.  Headquartered in Los Angeles, the Simon Wiesenthal Center maintains offices in New York, Toronto, Palm Beach, Paris Buenos Aires and Jerusalem.
  
  The Museum of Tolerance, the Center’s educational arm, founded in 1993 challenges visitors to confront bigotry and racism, and to understand the Holocaust in both historic and contemporary contexts.  It hosts 350,000 visitors annually including 130,000 students. 
  
  The New York Tolerance Center- in the heart of Manhattan, is a professional development multi-media training facility targeting educators, law enforcement officials, and state/local government practitioners. Modeled after the successful Tools for Tolerance Program at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, the Tolerance Center provides participants with an intense educational and experiential daylong training program. Through interactive workshops, exhibits, and videos, individuals explore issues of prejudice, diversity, tolerance, and cooperation in the workplace and in the community.
  
  Moriah Films, the film division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was created to produce theatrical documentaries to educate both national and international audiences.  It focuses on the 3,500-year old Jewish experience as well as contemporary human rights and ethics issues.  Moriah has produced nine films to date, two of which have received the Academy Award for best feature documentary, The Long Way Home (1997) and Genocide (1981).
  
  The Director, Eastern Region, in consultation with the Center’s professional and lay leadership, will participate in the creation of a strategic plan and help build a volunteer team to meet short-term and long-range fundraising goals.  Additionally, the director will

  • work as a member of the senior management of the development department and interact with professional colleagues;
  • identify, research, cultivate and solicit major gifts, corporate and foundation grants/sponsorships, state and city grants, supporting social action programs of the Simon Wiesenthal Center nationally, raising funds for programs at the New York Tolerance Center and planned giving  prospects for the Center, itself, as well as the Museum of Tolerance, Jerusalem through examination of past records, individual and corporate contacts, and knowledge of the community;
  • engage in and direct personal solicitation of prospects;
  • direct the transformation of the New York Tolerance Center from a professional training facility to a must-see destination for all residents and visitors;
  • contribute to the development of public relations materials to enhance the organization’s image and promote fundraising;
  • assure proper communication that informs prospects and donors of special opportunities;
  • conduct special events such as dinners, film premieres, and major gifts from these special events; and
  • administer stewardship activities for major donors by supervising gift processing, data management, donor recognition and acknowledgement and assuring the timely collection of cash.

  The successful candidate will be a:

  • senior professional with a minimum of five to seven years of direct fundraising responsibility and intimate knowledge of the Jewish community;
  • successful solicitor working directly with volunteers and donors;
  • hands-on director of a major gifts management process;
  • sophisticated, outgoing individual able to communicate with believable passion and sensitivity the organization’s mission; and
  • strong manager with computer skills, the ability to write reports, correspondence and fundraising materials, who is a self-starter who listens and is able to build a motivated team of volunteers and professionals.

If you, or anyone you know, might be a suitable candidate for this unique position, please forward the person’s name, cover letter, resume and contact information to Lori Fainblatt Fodale at lori@merskyjaffe.com.

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