Springboard Fellow at Hillel Council of New England

Springboard Fellow

Hillel Council of New England 

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel Council of New England 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 part of our multi-campus network of Hillels, you will have the opportunity to make an impact on a diverse community of Jewish students across campuses in Greater Boston, helping them maintain their own identity on campus and building a robust network of support across campuses. 

In this role, you will work across multiple campuses to engage particular microcommunities of students, plan and execute large-scale regional events open to all campuses, and collaborate with the student life team to ensure that student leadership has the training and support needed to build and grow their Jewish student engagement on each campus. You will approach this role as a self-starter who is ready to collaborate with our existing staff team and student leaders to engage particularly underengaged student populations, including students involved in Greek Life and athletics. You’ll be committed to generating new ideas (and encouraged to implement them!), meeting new students and quickly understanding their needs, and driving programming to enhance our cross-campus engagement model. 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: 

• Actively contribute to the Hillel Council of New England engagement strategy, especially in the fall semester, by working to engage at least 80% of first year students in partnership with the campus Managers of Jewish Life and Learning. 
• Work toward increasing engagement with Greek Life students, student athletes, and other microcommunities by arranging at least 4 events over the course of the year, floating across our campuses in the Greater Boston area. 
• Analyze and reimagine our regional programming calendar, building upon our existing signature events and generating at least two new events throughout the fellowship. 
• Ensure that our student leadership on smaller, student-led campuses are aware and utilize HCNE budgetary support, program planning assistance, and events and trips that are open to all our students. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Consult with the HCNE student engagement strategy and student life team to design an innovative and creative outreach strategy to engage new students. 
• Regularly visit campuses throughout Boston, spending certain days on certain campuses, to meet with key underengaged students and hear about how Jewish life on campus can best meet their needs. 
• Develop strategies and programming highly specified to first year students, greek life students, and student athletes for them to engage on their own campus and to create relationships across campus. 
• Manage the regional programming calendar of events, including contracts, collaborations, and recruitment, in collaboration with the HCNE team and other Boston area Hillels. 
• Mentor and connect student leadership across our student-led campuses to help them design programs that fit the needs of their campuses and develop strategies to help them connect with existing and new programming available for all our campuses to engage with. 

• Recruit for Alternative Spring Break and Birthright 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 Boston, MA; remote work is not available for this position 
• Self-motivation and the ability to work independently.
• A commitment to creating an inclusive, vibrant and pluralistic Jewish community.
• Ability to effectively engage students at all levels in Jewish life and to serve as a resource in a pluralistic setting.
• Ability to work flexible hours to engage students and attend events.
• An ability to manage logistics and multiple tasks with competing deadlines.
• A team-oriented, collaborative spirit. 
• Strong listening skills and the ability to implement action based on themes around what you’re hearing. 
• A developed sense of Jewish identity with an eagerness to continue to learn and grow. 

What You’ll Receive

• 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).

About Hillel Council of New England 

Hillel Council of New England (HCNE) is the central hub for Jewish campus life in Boston, serving 12 campuses in the Greater Boston area. We work exclusively with campuses that have smaller Jewish populations, collectively serving over 2000 Jewish students.

We connect students with each other through local on-campus programs, regional events, cohort learning, and through immersive travel experiences.

Hillel Council of New England currently has professionals on the following campuses: Berklee College of Music, Bentley University, Boston College, Curry College, Emerson College, Simmons University, and Suffolk University. Hillel Council of New England supports student-led programs at Lesley University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Wheaton College, Salem State University, and UMass Boston.  

Hillel Council of New England 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.