Springboard Innovation Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill Hillel

Springboard Fellow

UNC Chapel Hill Hillel

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining UNC Chapel Hill 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 . 

As the Springboard Fellow at UNC Chapel Hill Hillel, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing Jewish student life on campus. Your primary focus will be building meaningful one-on-one relationships with students, empowering them to explore and deepen their Jewish identities. You will design and implement creative programs and events that engage students, foster a sense of community, and inspire a lifelong connection to Jewish values and culture. Collaborating closely with the Hillel team, you will contribute to the vibrant and dynamic environment that UNC Chapel Hill is known for, ensuring Jewish students feel supported and celebrated. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact while developing valuable leadership and professional skills. 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.

About The Springboard Fellowship

The Springboard Fellowship is a paid, two-year fellowship that brings recent college grads with raw talent, passion, and skills needed to reimagine and redesign Jewish student life to college campuses across North America. 

Trained in Relationship-Based Engagement, Human-Centered Design and other entrepreneurial frameworks, you will be exposed to the most successful initiatives from across the Hillel movement. Fellows will work with students to imagine, create, and refine experiences for Jewish life that dramatically impact student engagement, efficiently and strategically apply and scale successful initiatives from across the movement, and give birth to cutting-edge ideas that have the potential to transform how Hillel and creates inclusive spaces for #AllKindsOfJewish.

We’re looking for people who embrace challenges, take risks, fail, and learn from the past, while maintaining their passion and sense of humor. 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. 

What You’ll Do

GOALS: 

• Build relationships with at least 75 Jewish students within the first three months to understand their needs and interests.
• Journey of discovery - identify new Jewish students on campus, create micro-communities and constituencies that are underserved by Hillel
• Design and implement a strategic plan to engage Greek life members with Hillel’s programs, fostering meaningful connections and collaboration.
• Cultivate a culture of inclusivity and engagement within the Jewish student community, increasing Hillel’s visibility and participation across campus.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Meet with students from diverse cohorts and demographics across campus to engage them, understand their interests, and connect them to meaningful opportunities.
• Develop and implement a robust leadership pipeline to empower and mentor emerging student leaders.
• Strategically map out a plan to build one-on-one relationships with students currently uninvolved in Jewish life.
• Recruit and inspire students to participate in transformative experiences like Birthright Israel and Onward Israel trips.

Who You Are

• You’re A Relationship-Builder: You thrive on meeting new people, understanding their interests, and forging meaningful connections.
• You’re A Collaborative Team Player: You enjoy working collaboratively with a team to solve problems and explore new initiatives.
• You’re A Passionate Learner: You love learning and continuously building up your Jewish knowledge.
• You’re An Innovative Educator: You believe in infusing education into captivating experiences that stimulate the imagination.
• You’re A Facilitator: You thrive in creating spaces for students to converse, share ideas, and explore and develop their own ideas on relevant issues.
• You’re A Recent College Grad: 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.
• You’re A Creative Thinker: You are constantly reimagining the ordinary, seeking ways to repurpose and improve things.
• You’re A Bold Visionary: Think big and creatively, viewing everything as a possibility and embracing a risk-taking, entrepreneurial spirit.

 ~You’re A Springboard Fellow ~

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• 0 -3 years professional work experience
• Bachelor's degree
• This is an in-person role location in Chapel Hill, NC; remote work is not available for this position 
• Relationship-Building Skills: Demonstrate ability to connect with individuals from diverse backgrounds and foster meaningful, authentic relationships.
• Strong Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to engage and inspire a variety of audiences.
• Positive, Can-Do Attitude: Proactive, enthusiastic, and solution-oriented approach to challenges and opportunities.
• Commitment to Excellence: Driven to achieve high standards and deliver impactful results in all aspects of the role.
• Creativity and Innovation: Ability to think outside the box and develop fresh, engaging ideas for programs, events, and initiatives.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary for this role is $46,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and the salary 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, following COVID-19 safety guidelines).

About Hillel International

In 1923, Rabbi Benjamin Frankel started Hillel with humble means, a noble mission and a breathtaking vision: to convey Jewish civilization to a new generation. Today, Hillel International continues to enrich the lives of Jewish students and is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities across North America and around the world. As Hillel evolves as an organization, the mission remains steadfast: to create lasting connections with every Jewish student that foster an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel and train them to become the next Jewish leaders.

Hillel is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an accepting and inclusive environment for all.