Jewish welfare and residential services across southern Africa, 135+ years
Chevrah Kadisha operates a consolidated welfare and residential-care network across four major facilities (aged care, children's services, disability support) plus nine service lines (financial assistance, healthcare, burial, employment, education). The tech stack is Microsoft-heavy (.NET, SQL Server, Azure DevOps) with recent adoption of GoHighLevel for donor outreach—indicating a push to professionalize fundraising and grant management. Hiring patterns show balanced engineering and healthcare coverage, with active projects centered on payroll digitization and grant-renewal automation, reflecting pain points around manual grant eligibility and donor tracking.
Chevrah Kadisha is the oldest Jewish organization in Johannesburg (founded 1888) and operates the largest Jewish welfare network on the African continent. The organization comprises four major residential facilities (two aged-care homes, a children's home, and a disability-support center) alongside nine operational service lines serving financial assistance, healthcare, education, protected employment, burial, and emergency support. Over the past decade, Chevrah Kadisha consolidated multiple legacy welfare organizations under unified central management for finance, fundraising, and operations, creating operational scale while allowing individual facility leadership to focus on resident care. The organization employs 1,001–5,000 staff across South Africa with active hiring in the United States and Canada.
Microsoft 365, Excel, Word, PowerPoint for core operations; SQL Server and MySQL for databases; .NET and C# for development; Visual Studio and Azure DevOps Server for engineering; GitHub and Bitbucket for version control; GoHighLevel for donor outreach; Power BI for analytics.
Active projects include payroll and staffing automation, grant renewal management systems, donor outreach campaigns, fundraising digitization, and ad-hoc welfare data analytics—addressing internal pain points in grant eligibility determination and payroll workload management.