Portfolio Associate

Core responsibilities:

• Ensure projects move cleanly from idea to execution to learning by owning the coordination of projects across their full lifecycle
• Translate approved ideas into clear scopes, timelines, deliverables, and decision points
• Track progress across active projects, ensuring next steps, ownership, and deadlines are clear and current
• Support onboarding and relationship-building with new partners in the Common Era network
• Manage and moderate partner communications (e.g. Slack, newsletters, updates)
• Support coordination of virtual and in-person network gatherings

This role helps cultivate stronger communities by supporting the development of a vibrant pipeline of projects and leaders that inspire a new generation of Jews, working to make sure the Jewish experience continually evolves to meet the present moment.

Required skills and experience:

• 2–4 years of relevant experience in a fast-paced, idea-rich environment (e.g. philanthropy, cultural production, social innovation, startups, media)
• Strong communication and synthesis skills, both written and verbal
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple workstreams
• Curious, motivated, and comfortable working with evolving goals and systems
• Strong interpersonal instincts and collaborative orientation
• Comfortable using and mastering systems like no-code solutions such as SmartSuite, Miro, Slack, LLMs, etc.

Benefits include:

• Employer-sponsored health insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees
• Employer-sponsored vision & dental insurance with 100% of premiums covered for employees
• Up to 12% employer retirement contribution
• 20 days paid time off (PTO) in first year (increasing over time)
• 16 paid holidays
• 2 paid volunteer days
• Employer-sponsored life, short & long-term disability coverage

Common Era is a funder and an R&D platform working to make sure that the Jewish experience continually evolves to meet the present moment, today and in the future. They imagine and fund initiatives that offer the world a more expansive Jewish reality for new audiences.