Springboard Fellow at San Francisco Hillel

Springboard Fellow

San Francisco Hillel

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining San Francisco 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.

San Francisco Hillel is the hub of Jewish student life in San Francisco. As a multi-campus Hillel, we serve undergraduate and graduate students at over 5 campuses throughout the city. Our team is known for being innovative and radically inclusive, and as our new Springboard Fellow you will have the unique opportunity to help up serve over 100 students in the beautiful and diverse city of San Francisco.

As a Springboard Fellow at San Francisco Hillel, you will join our Student Life Team and will help us engage Jewish student life at San Francisco State University (SF State), and reinvigorate and build Jewish student life at Community College of San Francisco (CCSF). You will be responsible for welcoming and engaging the 2026 and 2027 freshman classes, as well as finding and engaging current students who have not previously connected with Hillel. You will mentor student leaders and help them design their vision of Jewish life on campus and engage students in an array of Jewish learning opportunities.

Given SF State’s politicized campus climate, Jewish students often lack the space to openly express their Judaism, and therefore seek opportunities to have fun and celebrate their Judaism among peers. Using Design Thinking processes, you will support our students in making meaning, cultivating connections, pursuing justice, and meeting their basic needs. You’ll curate exciting, anticipated gatherings that create community and connection, attract new students, and keep them coming back for more. 

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:

• Find new and returning students who are curious or passionate about Jewish life and build one-on-one relationships with them. This role will also facilitate relationship building between students and their peers.
• Form relationships and partnerships with various campus departments and student organizations to increase awareness of SF Hillel’s community.
• Plan and support diverse programming and events at SF State and CCSF to provide students with opportunities for connection, community, and Jewish learning.
• Mentor student leaders to advance their leadership skills and achieve both their individual goals and the goals of the organization as whole.
• Facilitate 1+ Jewish Learning cohorts per semester and infuse Jewish learning opportunities into other programming and events (both on and off-campus). 

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

Core day-to-day responsibilities: 

• Meet for coffee with students at SF State and CCSF to get to know them and see how SF Hillel can support their Jewish and student experiences during college.
• Mentor passionate student leaders as they dream and ideate new engagement strategies, Hillel experiences, and campus partnerships. You’ll provide coaching to ensure they’re guided and supported as they build an inclusive, pluralistic community within and beyond Hillel.
• Actively serve as a leader on SF Hillel’s Student Life Team, supporting the facilitation of all major and cross-campus programming, Shabbatot, and holidays.
• Maintain records of student interactions, events, and attendance for engagement measurement and ongoing evaluation through SF Hillel’s engagement tracking database.
• Provide support to students who are struggling by creating trusting mentorship spaces and connecting them to partners and resources that provide expert, licensed assistance. That may look like: reviewing someone’s resume, walking them to the campus counseling center, or suggesting a grief workshop. 

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
• Ability to manage multiple moving projects, take direction from an experienced supervisor, and adhere to deadlines.
• Excited to support the student life team’s shifting priorities with a “no job too small” mentality.
• Eagerness to meet new people and do important outreach work as you build and strengthen dynamic Jewish communities.
• Ability to navigate nuance and hold pluralism in a sometimes-fraught campus climate, the strength to facilitate and lean into conversations about anti-Zionism and antisemitism, and eagerness to work as part of a team addressing these issues.
• Excellent leadership and a readiness to be a role model.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, a detail-oriented and highly organized approach.
• Ability to work nights and weekends as required for meetings, events, and deadlines

Please Note: 

• This is an in-person role location in San Francisco, CA; remote work is not available for this position 
• Must be able to engage in a range of physical activity, including standing or sitting at a desk or computer and walking (sometimes on uneven surfaces) for extended periods of time. Must be able to lift/carry up to 25 pounds.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $46,000 - $51,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and the salary range is $48,000- $53,000 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).
• A stipend for mobile phone use to cover a portion of your cell phone bill.
• Fully funded monthly public transportation pass for work purposes.

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.