Sara Leviten has joined the Board of Deputies as its new education policy and projects manager.
Ms Leviten's wealth of communal experience includes previous roles as provincial director of the Association for Jewish Youth and youth and student director of the Reform movement.
More recently, as a community development officer for Haringey Council, she has aided the local Charedi community.
Ms Leviten is the former wife of Clive Lawton, who was the Board's education officer in the 1980s.