Director of Engagement

Queens Hillel

Role Overview

The Director of Engagement mentors, supports, and motivates Jewish students across Queens, helping them develop their leadership skills and use their authentic selves to build community for their peers. Accessible to students of all backgrounds - and grounded in a wide range of Jewish knowledge, experiences, and practices - they will work collaboratively with the staff team to implement innovative engagement strategies that engage thousands of students across the borough. The Director of Engagement will help to ensure that Jewish students at Queens feel seen, supported, and connected.

What You’ll Do

• In partnership with the managing director, mold and execute a strategic engagement plan that helps Queens Hillel achieve its goals across the borough and all our campuses.
• Build meaningful relationships with no less than 180 students.
• Identify the needs of underserved students and develop engagement strategies for meeting their needs.
• Mentor student club leadership to cultivate a Jewish community that is caring, diverse, welcoming, and actively inclusive.
• Maintain student data, ensuring Queens Hillel is collecting relevant and useful information that helps us reach our goals and complies with Hillel International’s Measurement program.
• In collaboration with staff and student leaders and with an eye for Jewish pluralism, lead the development and execution of all programming, including Shabbat, holiday celebrations, and small to large-scale events.
• Supervise engagement-focused students and/or staff people.
• Other tasks as assigned.

What You’ve Accomplished

• A bachelor’s degree
• At least 4-7 years of professional work experience (Hillel or Jewish experience is a plus)
• Experience supervising early career professionals
• Ability to develop an end-to-end program from initial design to successful measurement and evaluation
• Proven success as a relationship builder
• Experience or affinity working with and motivating Jewish students
• Creativity, flexibility, initiative, and excellent interpersonal, communication, and leadership skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment where prioritizing, multitasking, organization, and attention to detail are essential

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the non-profit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $65,000-75,000, commensurate with experience.
• A cell phone stipend, on-campus parking (if needed), ample opportunities for professional development, including up to $2,000 of additional professional development and educational advancement funding per person each year, and the opportunity to attend regional and national conferences.
• The opportunity to live and work in the most diverse geographic region in the world (Queens) and experience everything Queens and New York City have to offer.
• Hillel offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, a retirement plan, Life, AD&D, and Long Term Disability Insurances, and generous vacation, medical time, and parental leave.
• Great professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities.
• Dedicated and fun colleagues who want to bring out the best in you

About Queens Hillel

Queens Hillel envisions a world in which every Jewish student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel. By striving to create a welcoming community that reflects our diversity, we help students realize their needs and potential, and inspire them to explore their Jewish identity. For over 70 years Queens Hillel has helped our 4,000 Jewish students make new friends, gain new mentors, live and celebrate the Jewish calendar, experience and discuss Israel, and engage in Jewish learning.

Queens Hillel is affiliated with Hillel International. Hillel International enriches the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world, and envisions a world where every student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel.

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.