About the position
Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Ohio University Hillel as the Springboard Fellow. You will build one on one relationships with students, plan and execute engaging events and programs around campus, and help inspire students to make a commitment to Jewish life. You’ll use your stellar communication and active listening skills to develop relationships with students less engaged and help them map a path to create a Jewish story that’s relevant and exciting for them. You’ll be excellent in this role if you can’t leave the coffee line without chatting with the person next to you and have an infectious curiosity about the world. In this role, you’ll use data to map areas of campus that are less connected and create strategies to develop new markets. You’ll identify students that have common interests using your ability to network and build coalitions. You’ll meet students, university partners, and other stakeholders on campus, as well as throughout the close knit small town of Athens, where you’re likely to run into a few alumni visiting beautiful Athens, Ohio. You will join a small and mighty team of staff and student leaders with a focus on professional development and overall success. You'll wake up each day (or at least most) and be genuinely excited and enthusiastic about creating an inviting place that inspires students to explore, experience, and create vibrant Jewish lives. This is so much more than your average 9-to-5.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with students and colleagues to further develop Ohio Hillel’s Shabbat program
- Contribute to large scale events such as Welcome week, Israel week, Purim Party, and other celebrations
- Meet with students from different cohorts and demographics on campus, such as Greek Life, LGBT+ Students, etc. to engage them, identify their interests and connect to opportunities
- Collaborate with students and colleagues to develop and manage Birthright recruitment, staffing and follow-through
- Plan and facilitate weekly student leader meeting, various committee meetings and student-driven events
- Supervise student interns who are responsible for engaging their peers in Jewish life on campus.
Requirements
- 0 -3 years professional work experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit. Things may not always go according to plan and you must be willing to take risks and learn from your wins as well as your losses.
- Confidence initiating and running programs, and comfort asking questions.
- Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel.
- Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas.
- Creative problem-solving.
- Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism.
Benefits
- Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $46,000 - $48,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and the salary range is $48,000- $50,000 in year two of the Fellowship.
- A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, Life, AD&D and Long Term Disability (LTD) insurances, Flexible Spending accounts, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave.
- High-level professional development to help develop core skills in experiential education, including learning from some of the most innovative organizations in Jewish education today.
- $3,200 in professional development funds from the Springboard Fellowship to utilize over the course of two years.
- Intensive Jewish summer and year-long learning experiences that will provide you with the knowledge, passion, and critical tool kit to fuel your work building our Jewish communities.
- Mentoring and career coaching to help you during and after your Fellowship.
- A network of terrific colleagues from across the Hillel movement.
- Travel opportunities, both domestically and internationally, multiple times per year (if permitted, following COVID-19 safety guidelines).
