Springboard Fellow at Cohen Hillel at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hillel International • Champaign, IL

5h • Onsite

About The Position

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 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. Your work at the first Hillel in the world will help first and second year students and prospective students gain confidence about being independent Jewish adults for the first time. You will help build Hillel’s presence on campus through tabling, programming in campus buildings, and meeting students where they are. You will help student leaders fulfill their passion for community and service through forming and maintaining interest and identity based communities on campus. You will help guide the decisions of the prospective students through high school, camps and youth movement recruitment. 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.

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 your wins as well as your losses.
• Comfort and excitement to speak and engage with people you are not familiar with.
• Confidence initiating and running events, and comfort asking questions.
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive Jewish education is not necessary — just an interest in creating a vibrant Jewish community, a commitment to learning, and the desire to make a difference in the lives of students.
• Whatever your degree, you are excited about Jewish life on campus and have experience as a participant and maybe even as an educator in a Jewish educational setting.

Responsibilities

• Empower students to live Jewishly by forming relationships with 180 individual students with limited involvement in Jewish life focusing on the underclassmen (freshmen and sophomores).
• Identify needs for identity and interest based micro-communities and create opportunities for students to engage within those micro-communities. Such micro-communities include but are not limited to: Jewish Greek life, Jewish residence hall life, arts and culture, volunteerism, social justice, etc.
• Identify and create 16 opportunities per semester for Hillel’s brand to be visible on campus including tabling on the quad, presence at dorms, libraries and campus buildings, participation in the University programs and more.
• Develop Hillel’s online brand by defining Hillel’s social media presence and managing Hillel’s Instagram, TikTok and Facebook accounts.
• Meet with first and second year students from different cohorts and demographics on campus to engage them, identify their interests and connect to opportunities.
• Meet with students to help connect them with leadership roles, learning opportunities and immersive experiences provided by Hillel.
• Welcome students to campus through programs and help them build a network of support through coffee chats, multiple student meet-ups or large scale event planning.
• Work with the Engagement team to develop a creative vision for Hillel’s presence on campus (tabling, dorm activities, etc).
• Map out a plan to draw Jewish high school students to the University of Illinois through Hillel programming and engagement.
• Support engagement student interns with their work.
• Create social media content with students and staff.
• Staff Shabbat dinners, bagel brunches, holiday meals and services and other large Hillel events.
• Recruit for Onward Israel and Birthright Israel trips.

Benefits

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $46,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and the salary range is $48,000 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).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level