IACT and Community-Building Associate at Harvard Hillel

Hillel International • Cambridge, MA

4h • $50,000 - $60,000

About The Position

As the IACT and Community-Building Associate at Harvard Hillel, you will be on the front lines of building deep and creative relationships with Harvard’s Jewish undergraduates - and inspiring them to build a community of meaning with and for one another. Your work will be fast paced and varied, including everything from hundreds of coffee-dates, to planning yoga study breaks and concerts and designing and leading Birthright trips. You’ll work with colleagues who are dreaming big and moving fast to create Jewish life as compelling as anything on Harvard’s campus - and mentoring the next generation of Jewish leaders.
Harvard Hillel sees Israel - the land, the people, and the state - as a pillar of Jewish identity, creativity, and complexity; alongside Shabbat, Torah study, and responsibility to one another. We are aware of, and respectful of, our student body’s vast diversity of experience, thought, and feeling related to Israel as reality and idea - and aim to both educate and empower, knowing that at times there will be an irreducible tension between these two values.
This is an incredible first opportunity in the Jewish world, which will open the door to all kinds of Jewish communal work after a successful tenure at Harvard.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required
• High empathy and emotional intelligence
• Comfort in managing teams as well as working independently and collaboratively
• An embrace of the unpredictable, often improv-type nature of this work, including the capacity to absorb, learn from, and move past disappointments
• Strong written and verbal skills, effective at communicating with a variety of stakeholders including students, parents, alumnae/i, and university partners
• A commitment to pluralism and comfort with your Jewish identity so you may act as a role model and mentor for emerging Jewish adults
• Owning your unique Jewish knowledge and experiences and inspiring others on their Jewish journeys

Responsibilities

• Build personal relationships with 225 students
• Maintain and enter records of events and engagements for measurement data
• Work collaboratively with our Jewish Agency Israel Fellow and your student-facing colleagues to bring Israel programming to Hillel and Harvard University
• Advise first-year outreach chair and social action chair on the student board
• Staff major events from Shabbat dinners to bagel brunches throughout the year
• Manage Birthright Israel program including recruitment, interviews, pre-trip orientations, elevate the trip experience, and cultivate post-trip Birthright community-building
• Coordinate with our Birthright tour operator
• Design a compelling and educationally rigorous itinerary for two seven-day Beyond tours, and coordinate with our Beyond tour operator to deliver these experiences
• Manage the post trip engagement by sustaining the goal of 100% participating and developing experiences and opportunities for Birthright Israel alumni
• Oversee the IACT Birthright Budget

Benefits

• A salary of $50,000-$60,000, depending on experience and qualifications
• A network of students, parents, and university partners who will inspire you, and become life-long professional resources and partners
• Opportunities for professional development, coaching, and Jewish study
• Colleagues and support from across the Hillel movement
• Travel opportunities, both domestically and internationally
• A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, Tax Deferred Retirement Plan, Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability insurances, Flexible Spending Plan, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees