Springboard Fellow

University of Maryland Hillel

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining the University of Maryland 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. Maryland Hillel serves one of the largest and most dynamic Jewish campus communities in the country. Actively seeking to engage Jewish students on their own terms, Maryland Hillel provides students with Jewish opportunities that are meaningful, empowering, and engaging. Through a creative mix of leadership training, education, volunteerism, and social, spiritual, and cultural opportunities, students are inspired to realize their potential and become the best versions of themselves.   

In this role, you will be a changemaker within the community, bringing energy and excitement to everything you do. On an average day, you can be seen in the local coffee shop talking with a student about their time at summer camp, tabling across campus with bagels and cream cheese, and at a Greek house leading a Tikkun Olam activity, with snacks of course! You will have a unique ability to connect with people from different backgrounds, listening with genuine curiosity to people’s stories and beliefs. Seeing the bigger picture is something that comes easily to you, understanding the why behind your work, and taking the initiative to connect Jewish students to one another and other Jewish experiences. 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 shaping the University of Maryland Hillel by engaging 180-200 unique students a year. 

• Collaborate with leaders to develop monthly First-Year student programming, Freshmen Leadership Fellowship, and semesterly Freshmen Shabbats.
• Strengthen connections between Maryland Hillel and Jewish students in Greek life by planning initiatives, events, and coffee chats with both new and current members.

• Assist in creating a pipeline of 50 potential leaders for programs such as FreshFest mentors, Alternative Spring Break, Kol Yisrael, and Jewish Student Union committee members.  

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Build one-on-one relationships with Jewish students by meeting them where they live, work, and/or study, utilizing creative methods to reach and interest them.  
• Develop and implement an engagement strategy for First-Year students, allowing them to become leaders in the community.
• Spearhead programming and engagement efforts for prospective Jewish students interested in coming to the University of Maryland.
• Advise student organizations by connecting them to the greater Hillel mission and vision.    
• Assist with recruitment and staffing for Birthright Israel and other immersive experience trips.
• Participate as a member of the Hillel staff team in major programs, such as FreshFest, Family Shabbaton, Welcome Week, on-Campus Outreach, Shabbat, and holidays.  

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 located in College Park, MD; remote work is not available for this position 
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas. 
• Creative problem-solving skills.  
• Ability to be flexible and work together with a diverse team of staff and students.  

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $46,000 - $47,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and $48,000 - $49,000 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).  

Springboard Fellow

Hillel of San Diego at UCSD

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel of San Diego at UCSD 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 . At UCSD, nearly 2,000 Jewish students are woven across eight colleges and an ecosystem of over 10 Hillel student groups that reflect the incredible diversity of our campus.

At Hillel of San Diego at UCSD, students don’t just attend events, they meet their best friends. In this role, you will be the face of that experience: building a strong presence across campus, meeting students where they are, and helping them find “their people” within our community. You’ll design and facilitate fun, high-energy programs that are more than just great events, they’re entry points into lasting relationships. This role is integral to our growth because meaningful Jewish life on campus starts with connection, and you will be at the center of creating it. 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: Short-Term Outcomes

• Personally engage at least 350 unique Jewish students through one-on-one meetings, programs, and campus presence.
  
  
• Build meaningful relationships with 100 first-year and transfer students, helping them find community early in their UCSD experience.
  
  

Recruit and fill a full summer Birthright Israel bus, and serve as staff to deepen student connection before, during, and after the trip.

Longer-Term Community-Building Outcomes:

• Partner with Jewish Greek life and Jewish sisterhood leaders to help grow their chapters by 25%, strengthening leadership pipelines and Jewish campus presence.
  
  
• Help build and oversee Shabbat experiences that consistently engage 100+ students weekly, establishing Hillel as the place to be on Friday nights at UCSD.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Build a strong first-year and transfer pipeline. During the first six weeks of each quarter, you will proactively identify, meet, and onboard new students , tabling, hosting coffee chats, tracking engagement, and helping them form real friendships that anchor them in Jewish life early.
  
  
• Make Shabbat the place to be. Partner with student leaders and Shabbat committees to design and execute high-level, high-energy Shabbat experiences that consistently engage 100+ students. You’ll bring intentionality to everything, from theme and atmosphere to catering and flow, ensuring Shabbat feels warm, magnetic, and unforgettable.
  
  
• Oversee and grow Jewish Greek life and student clubs. Serve as the primary staff partner for Jewish Greek life and other student groups, helping chapters grow by 25%, strengthening leadership, and expanding Hillel’s presence across campus.
  
  
• Recruit and prepare students for Birthright Israel. Lead recruitment efforts alongside the team to fill a full summer bus, and create meaningful pre- and post-trip engagement so Birthright becomes a launch point for deeper Jewish involvement.
  
  
• Meet students where they are. Maintain a visible campus presence through tabling, coffee dates, and collaboration with social engagement interns who are connecting peers to Jewish life.
  
  

Teach and facilitate Jewish learning. Lead or co-teach the Jewish Learning Fellowship and serve as the primary Jewish educator and role model on campus, integrating learning into experiences that feel accessible, relevant, and inspiring.

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 San Diego, California; remote work is not available for this position 

• 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.
• Confidence initiating and running programs, and comfort asking questions.
• Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel.
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas.
• Creative problem-solving.
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism. 

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $46,000 - $50,000 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).

Springboard Fellow

Hillel San Antonio

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel San Antonio as the Springboard Fellow. You will build one-on-one relationships with students, plan and execute engaging events and programs across campus, and help inspire students to make a commitment to Jewish life. At Hillel San Antonio, students are eager to explore meaningful Jewish experiences, and your role will help shape a dynamic community that fosters #AllKindsofJewish. 

You’ll be at the heart of student engagement, creating programs that spark curiosity, connection, and leadership. You’ll collaborate with student leaders, staff, and campus partners to bring fresh ideas to life, while learning how to nurture and sustain a meaningful Jewish community. This role is integral to Hillel San Antonio's success because you’ll help set the tone for how students experience Jewish life, ensuring it’s accessible, exciting, and transformative. You'll wake up each day (or at least most) genuinely excited and enthusiastic about creating an inviting place that inspires students to explore, experience, and build 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. 

About Hillel San Antonio

Hillel San Antonio is a vibrant, multi-campus Hillel serving Jewish students across eight colleges and universities in the San Antonio area. Our primary focus is building strong Jewish communities at The University of Texas at San Antonio and Trinity University, where the majority of our students study and gather.

San Antonio is one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States and is home to a dynamic Jewish community. Hillel San Antonio connects students to meaningful Jewish life through Shabbat dinners, holiday celebrations, leadership opportunities, social gatherings, learning experiences, and community service. Our approach emphasizes relationship-building and student leadership, empowering students to shape Jewish life on their campuses while connecting them to the broader San Antonio Jewish community.

As a multi-campus Hillel, we meet students where they are—on campus, in residence halls, in coffee shops, and at community spaces—to create meaningful Jewish experiences. Our programs bring together students from across our campuses while also supporting campus-based initiatives at UTSA and Trinity.

Through partnerships with local synagogues, community organizations, and alumni, Hillel San Antonio helps students explore Jewish identity, celebrate tradition, develop leadership skills, and build lasting friendships during their college years.

What You’ll Do

GOALS: 

• Build meaningful connections with students to foster engagement and community.
• Plan, coordinate, and support large-scale campus programs and events.
• Collaborate with staff and student leaders to develop new initiatives.
• Strengthen professional skills in leadership, programming, and project management.

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

• Meet with students from different cohorts and demographics on campus to engage them, identify their interests, and connect them to opportunities.
• Map out a plan to strategically build one-on-one relationships with 100 students currently not engaged in Jewish life.
• Supervise student interns who are responsible for engaging their peers in Jewish life on campus.
• Co-Teach Jewish Learning Fellowship
• The Fellow will support large-scale High Holiday events and Israel engagement programs, helping with planning, execution, and student engagement across campus.

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 located in San Antonio; remote work is not available for this position. 

• Strong entrepreneurial spirit. Things may not always go according to plan, and you must be willing to take risks and learn from your wins as well as your losses.
• Confidence in initiating and running programs, and comfort in asking questions.
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism. 

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).

Springboard Fellow

Hillel of Buffalo

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel of Buffalo 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 . At Hillel of Buffalo, you’ll be part of a close-knit and growing Jewish community in a city that blends big-campus opportunity with the warmth of a place where people truly put down roots. With Buffalo’s vibrant culture, strong academics, and unbeatable access to nature and city life alike, this role offers a uniquely meaningful setting to build Jewish connection and belonging.

In this role, you’ll create meaningful and diverse opportunities for Jewish expression, mentor student leaders, and help shape a lively, pluralistic Jewish community on campus. You’ll bring creativity and ambition to everything from relationship-building to innovative programming and marketing strategies that meet students where they are. As an integral member of our team, you’ll play a central part in advancing Hillel’s mission to enrich Jewish student life and empower the next generation of leaders.

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 Hillel of Buffalo by engaging 180 students each year though meaningful engagement
• Maintain Hillel of Buffalo’s social media presence by making consistent weekly posts to promote engagement opportunities 
• Advise Hillel of Buffalo’s Leadership team, greek council, social engagement interns and other student cohorts and ensure that they meet their engagement goals
• Establish yourself as a trusted role model for students at the University at Buffalo
• Develop deep relationships with university student life staff and the Buffalo Jewish community. 
• Use design thinking and innovative engagement strategies to prototype new programs, build creative partnerships, and reach under-engaged student communities across campus

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Meet Jewish students (including first year, queer and greek students) where they are at to engage them, identify their interests and connect them to opportunities at Hillel and throughout their campus. 
• Meet with students to help them create opportunities for their peers to deepen their connections to Hillel and Jewish life. 
• Map out a plan to strategically build one-on-one relationships with 180 students currently not engaged in Jewish life.
• Plan and facilitate weekly meetings with different student leadership cohorts. 
• Recruit for and facilitate Jewish learning opportunities. 

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 Buffalo, NY; remote work is not available for this position. This is not a typical 9-5, some weekend work is required. Weekly schedules will be determined in partnership with your supervisor.  

• 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.
• Confidence initiating and running programs, and comfort asking questions.
• Ability to collaborate across university student life departments 
• Comfort and expertise with digital marketing and social media platforms 
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas.
• Creative problem-solving.
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism. 

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 of Buffalo

Hillel of Buffalo is an exciting, accessible, multi-faceted hub of Jewish student life that enhances students’ success with opportunities to gain professional life skills, to learn, grow, and make a difference in ways they find meaningful- all within a culture of acceptance and inclusivity that celebrates the cultural, religious and social aspects of Judaism.

The Hillel offices and lounge is on campus, centrally located in the UB Commons, right near Starbucks for easy coffee conversations with students. The staff offices are furnished to accommodate students who stop by to meet with friends, chat, have a snack, attend a program and much more. Of the total enrollment of 30,000 at University of Buffalo, there are approximately 1,500 Jewish students on the beautiful campus in Amherst, NY. Hillel of Buffalo also welcomes Jewish students from the many local colleges and universities in Western New York, including Buffalo State College, Daemen University, and Canisius University.  

A flagship institution in the State University of New York system, University at Buffalo is the largest and most comprehensive campus in the 64-campus SUNY system. UB is a premier, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence. Its Research, creative activity and people positively impact the world. Like the city we call home, UB is distinguished by a culture of resilient optimism, resourceful thinking and pragmatic dreaming that enable it to reach others every day.

Buffalo’s Jewish Community consists of 10,000 people, nearly 10 synagogues, a robust Jewish Federation, two large Jewish Community Center campuses and a Jewish day school.  Most of the Jewish population now resides in the Buffalo suburb of Amherst, which is home to UB’s main campus, and, which Money magazine named in 2019 “the best place to live in NY state.”  There are many reasons to move to the Buffalo metropolitan area, including restaurants, breweries, hiking, access to two Great Lakes, world-renowned symphony orchestra, a top-rated art museum, several drama companies, and two major league sports teams. Plus, it’s where Buffalo wings were invented!

Springboard Fellow

Hillel at the University of Rochester

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel at the University of Rochester as the Springboard Fellow. You will build one-on-one relationships with students, plan and execute engaging events and programs around campus, help facilitate Shabbat services and holiday celebrations, and inspire students to make a commitment to Jewish life. URochester Hillel is proud of our vibrant, inclusive Jewish community that truly celebrates all kinds of Jews and all kinds of Jewish. The Springboard Fellow is an integral part of our team. This role will report directly to the Assistant Director, with support from the Executive Director as well. Together we seek to foster an environment in which all Jewish students feel inspired to grow, learn, and connect with Jewish heritage and traditions, and with us and each other, in authentic and meaningful ways. 

About The Springboard Fellowship

The Springboard Fellowship is a paid, two-year fellowship that leverages the talent, passion, and skills of recent college grads to reimagine and support flourishing Jewish student life on 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 creates inclusive spaces for #AllKindsOfJewish. 

We’re looking for people who embrace challenges, maintain their passion and sense of humor, have a commitment to learning, and are interested in creating a vibrant Jewish community and making a difference in the lives of our students. 

What You’ll Do

GOALS: 

• Actively contribute to shaping Hillel at the University of Rochester by engaging approximately 150 students.
• Collaborate with students and colleagues to craft and execute a year of meaningful Jewish living through Shabbat experiences and services, holiday programs, and other celebrations.
• Inspire students to see the joy and value in Jewish learning and connectivity in ways that feel authentic and relevant to their modern lives.
• Help build community through social programs that draw Jewish students together from a variety of Jewish backgrounds and across personal Jewish practices.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Meet with students from all walks of campus to engage them, build authentic relationships, and help connect them with Jewish life and opportunities of interest.
• Help lead our Orientation and First-Year Welcome Initiatives, strongly welcoming our First-Year class into our special URochester Hillel community.
• Serve as a Jewish educator - through Shabbat and holiday services and programming, learning cohorts, and as infused into the fabric of Hillel.
• Serve as a ritual leader for Shabbat and holidays, and create opportunities for students to learn and practice these skills within a proudly pluralistic environment. 

• Design and implement social gatherings to connect students with us and each other, and build Jewish student community.
• Support the operations and marketing of the organization to best reach students,  share about opportunities, and build relationships; use Hillel databases to track impact.
• Work collaboratively with the Assistant Director to develop and execute an engagement strategy.

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 Rochester, NY; remote work is not available for this position.  This role involves work on Shabbat, holidays, and select evenings/weekends, with other flexibility and some hybrid hours during the week.
• Strategic thinking, creativity, and good problem solving skills.
• A willingness to try, learn, and adapt.
• Confidence initiating and running programs, and comfort asking questions.
• Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel.
• Deep commitment to pluralism and the beautiful diversity of Jewish student life.
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas.
• Strong sense of your own Jewish self, and excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism as you inspire that in others.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary for this role is $50,000 in year one of the Fellowship, with an increase to the range of $52,000-$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, including the possibility of working at a Jewish summer camp if desired.
• 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).

Springboard Fellow

Hillel Foundation at Indiana University

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Indiana University 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 . Our student-centric model of leadership develops emerging leaders who inspire and facilitate opportunities for their peers to engage in Jewish life on campus. We prioritize our team member’s growth and professional development. As an early-career professional you will have a seat at the table and will be trusted and empowered to take on more responsibility throughout your fellowship.

Welcome to Indiana University, home to the 6th largest Jewish student population and largest alumni community in the U.S., the 2026 National Football Champions, one of America’s most beautiful campuses, and Bloomington, IN - consistently named amongst the best college towns to call home. There is no better place to live, learn, work, and play. As a Springboard Fellow, you will play a critical role in expanding the organization’s capacity to reach, engage, and inspire  Jewish students on campus. You are passionate about connecting with students who are not yet engaged in Jewish life in deep and meaningful ways. You have an entrepreneurial mindset and are equally passionate about serving as a connector, strategist, and creative partner to students who want to lead by building meaningful Jewish experiences for their peers.

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:   As the Springboard Innovation Fellow, you will expand IU Hillel’s reach by building  meaningful one-on-one relationships and moving students into sustained leadership, cohort learning, and into roles as creators and/or participants in our entrepreneurship incubator. You will help mentor student leaders to strengthen peer-driven engagement across campus. Through testing and refining new scalable engagement models, you will position IU Hillel as a laboratory for measurable innovation in Jewish student life.

• Engage at least (180) students annually through one-on-one relationship building, with a focus on students not yet meaningfully connected to Jewish life.
• Increase depth engagement by moving (45) students or (25% of 180) from initial one-on-one relationships to participants in leadership, learning, or incubator initiatives.
• Collaborate with staff & student leaders to grow the Jewish Student Entrepreneurship  Incubator in support of (25) 1st-year and (50) 2nd-year student-led microgrant projects.
• Identify, recruit, develop and mentor student engagement interns and microgrant prospects  in support of organization-wide engagement priorities.
• Prototype and evaluate at least (1 to 2) new scalable engagement model(s) annually using Human-Centered Design principles.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Utilize social media and other innovative strategies to build your professional brand, elevate the organization's brand, and support engagement efforts. 
• Manage student information in the Hillel Engagement and Relationship Tracking database (HEaRT); maintain records of engagement, programming, and attendance.
• Guide students in exploring their Jewish identities and creating opportunities to participate in Jewish life at Hillel and throughout campus. 
• Identify, cultivate, and inspire student leaders to create opportunities that engage their peers and deepen their connection to Jewish life.  
• Serve as an active member of Indiana University Hillel’s Engagement Team by staffing Shabbat and Jewish holiday experiences, summer and winter Israel immersive trips, and other organization-wide programs and events.   
• Meet with students from different majors, grad years, and demographics on campus to engage them, identify their interests and connect them to opportunities.

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 located in Bloomington, IN; remote work is not available for this position 

• Strong entrepreneurial spirit and creative problem solver. You are willing to take risks and always learn from efforts that don’t work out as planned.  
• Skilled at connecting with people and building authentic, meaningful relationships.  
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, multifaceted environment where no two days repeat. 
• Passion for Jews, Judaism, and Israel. You are proud to be a Jewish mentor and role model, and equally passionate  to continue developing your personal relationship to Judaism, the Jewish people, and Israel.
• Ability to collaborate across teams inside and outside of HIllel, confidence initiating and running programs, and the maturity to ask for help when needed..

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).

Springboard Fellow

Hillel Guelph - Guelph, Ontario 

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel Guelph as the Springboard Fellow. You will be a student engager building meaningful relationships, planning and executing campus programs and events, and inspiring students to deepen their connection and commitment to Jewish life.

Hillel Guelph is the go-to hub for Jewish life on campus. With approximately 1,200 Jewish undergraduate students and 100 graduate students, Guelph is a vibrant, inclusive, and tight-knit community. It holds a proud legacy of student leadership, with generations of changemakers shaping Jewish life in creative, meaningful, and sometimes wonderfully unexpected ways. The Fellow partners closely with the Director to dream big and achieve incredible things for Jewish life on campus.

At Hillel Guelph, you’ll (almost always!) wake up excited to spark something meaningful. You’ll help create a Jewish campus community that’s warm, welcoming, bold, and full of life. If you love real conversations, big ideas, and turning student sparks into unforgettable experiences, you’ll feel right at home here. This isn’t your standard desk job — it’s relationship-building, creative dreaming, and empowering students to bring Jewish life to campus in their own authentic way. Your drive and heart are essential to our success. Because of you, students feel seen, valued, and inspired! 

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: 

Short term:

1.       Deepen Student Engagement by investing into building relationships with the student community: Conduct 150 1:1 meetings annually with Jewish students (with emphasis on first-years), engage in conversations during events and create drop in opportunities for in-formal communication.
2.       Programming: Provide logistical and programmatic support for tabling, including weekly bagel lunch and about 2-3 addition events per week. Work in collaboration with student leaders, using both educational/cultural perspectives and engagement strategies in planning events.
3.       Social media: work in collaboration with Hillel Ontario team and students' leadership to strength our Social Media engagement.

Long term:

1.       Cultivate positive vibes: Grow a culture of enthusiasm, collaboration, and shared purpose across our student leadership community. Mainly among about 30 student leaders and with other groups leadership like Aepi, SSI, SWU, Chabad (30 students) and addition core audience.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Meet up with students to build meaningful relationships across different cohorts and campus groups, learning about their interests and connecting them to opportunities that enrich their university experience.
• Mentor and support board members as they plan and execute impactful programs and events.
• Provide logistical guidance and hands-on support, equipping students with the tools and confidence to successfully lead initiatives.
• Actively promote Hillel programs, engage new students, and recruit participants into vibrant Jewish campus life.
• Lead and facilitate a variety of programs and events, including Shabbat dinners, social gatherings, Jewish learning experiences, and cohort-based initiatives.

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

• A bachelor’s degree and lived experience as a recent university graduate.
• 0–3 years of professional work experience (including volunteer, academic, and work)
• A creative mindset that thrives on finding solutions and pushing the boundaries of what’s been done before.
• The ability to build authentic, meaningful relationships with students and colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
• A willingness to step outside your comfort zone and try new ideas — even when the outcome isn’t guaranteed.
• Genuine passion and excitement for Jewish life on campus, and a curiosity to continue shaping your own connection to Judaism.
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit — you can take risks, adapt when plans change, and celebrate both wins and lessons learned.
• Confidence in initiating and leading programs, paired with comfort asking questions and seeking guidance when needed.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams inside and outside Hillel.
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary for this role is $50,000 (CDN)  in year one of the Fellowship, and $52,500  (CDN) 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).

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.

Springboard Fellow

Oregon Hillel - University of Oregon

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Oregon Hillel as the Springboard Innovation 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. This Fellowship offers a unique opportunity to shape Jewish student life at the University of Oregon by focusing on relationship-building, program innovation, and student engagement, ensuring students feel connected, included, and inspired by Jewish life on campus.

At the heart of this Fellowship is the mission to cultivate meaningful relationships and pathways that connect Jewish students to community, leadership, and purpose. You will engage directly with students, co-create programs, and implement strategies that make Jewish life on campus inclusive, relevant, and thriving. As a Springboard Fellow, you play a key role in strengthening student connections, supporting leadership development, and advancing Oregon Hillel’s mission to enrich Jewish life at Oregon’s flagship universities. 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 meaningful one-on-one relationships with 300–400 students across the University of Oregon, particularly first- and second-year students, transfers, and students not currently engaged in Hillel.
• Collaborate with interns, students and staff to design and implement 5–8 innovative programs and events each semester that engage students in Jewish life.
• Strengthen student leadership pipelines by mentoring and supporting students in leadership roles and peer-led initiatives.
• Contribute to long-term engagement strategy by piloting new initiatives, scaling successful programs, and helping Oregon Hillel expand its reach and impact on campus.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Meet individually and in small groups with students from diverse backgrounds to understand interests, build trust, and connect them to Hillel opportunities.
• Co-create and execute engaging programs, including Shabbat dinners, holiday celebrations, social and cultural events, and creative micro-programs, with students and staff.
• Support student leadership development by mentoring student leaders, facilitating peer-to-peer engagement, and helping students take ownership of programming
• Apply Student-Centered Design and other innovation frameworks to pilot new initiatives, evaluate impact, and iterate programs to maximize engagement.
• Collaborate with Oregon Hillel staff, including the Director of Engagement, to ensure programs are inclusive, relevant, and aligned with broader organizational goals.

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 Eugene, OR; remote work is not available for this position 

Skills and Competencies: 

• Strong entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to experiment, take risks, and learn from successes and failures.
• Ability to build authentic relationships with students from diverse backgrounds and interests.
• Creative problem-solving and innovation mindset, including applying Student-Centered Design to program development.
• Confidence in planning, facilitating, and evaluating programs and events independently and collaboratively.
• Collaborative team player with excellent communication skills and excitement to learn and grow professionally.
• Passion for Jewish life and curiosity to continue developing your own connection to Judaism.

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).

Springboard Fellow

Penn State Hillel

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Penn State 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 . The Pennsylvania State University is one of the largest and most respected public universities in the country. Penn State Hillel has received numerous campus and national awards and has become one of the premier centers for Jewish student life in the country. Penn State Hillel operates out of a state-of-the-art facility completed in 2022. Penn State Hillel is located in State College, PA, on the beautiful campus of the Pennsylvania State University. At Penn State Hillel, you will be part of a team that works both to engage and develop student leaders and maintain the image of the Jewish community throughout Penn State. Penn State students are ambitious and entrepreneurial. You’re bold and creative, and ready to jump in with both feet to engage the Jewish student population. You’ll carry the ‘WE ARE’ spirit into everything you do, fueled by the pride of Happy Valley as you help define what it means to be a Jewish Nittany Lion. You see the value in Jewish communal life, and want to support students by putting a Jewish lens on their Penn State experience. 

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: 

• Engage and build authentic relationships with at least 180 Jewish undergraduate students through one-on-one conversations, individual outreach, and high-impact experiences  by May 2027.
• Innovate and implement the transformation of two areas of Jewish Student Life that will result in increased interest and attendance. 
• Advise Hillel micro-communities by supporting students' interests and allow for all communities to grow, assisting in the development of new experiences and student driving initiatives. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Build authentic relationships with Jewish students at Penn State by engaging them, identifying their interests and connecting them to opportunities at Hillel.
• Assist with recruiting students for immersive experiences, ongoing Jewish learning, and micro-community involvement.
• Serve as an advisor for our various Hillel micro-communities based on your interests and the interests of our students.
• Identify key students who have potential to be successful and enthusiastic student leaders.

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
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• A passion for impacting Jewish life on college campuses
• Demonstrated interest in student engagement and leadership
• Genuine passion for pluralistic Jewish communities and for helping create a welcoming, vibrant, and meaningful Jewish environment.
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit and a willingness to try new ideas, learn from experience, and grow through both successes and challenges.
• Confidence in taking initiative, leading programs, and asking thoughtful questions along the way.
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism. 
• This is an in-person role location in State College, Pennsylvania; remote work is not available for this position 

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).

Springboard Fellow

Syracuse Hillel

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Syracuse 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 . 

Syracuse students are highly social and have a drive for personal excellence. They enjoy school sports (especially basketball and football), are involved leaders in many areas on campus including clubs, Greek organizations, and academic programs, and are consistently building career-focused skills. Our students truly bleed orange and are awesome (we’re genuinely wowed by them daily).

You will help build upon current successful engagement strategy and further Hillel’s goal to inspire more Jewish students on campus. You will engage micro communities, including but not limited to first year students and students involved in Greek Life. You will think creatively about how to change culture, shatter expectations, and act in service of articulated-student needs. 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 shaping Syracuse Hillel by engaging 180 - 200 unique students.
• Foster community amongst first year students through targeted outreach and 2 - 3 programs each semester in/near first year campus housing. 
• Deepen the connection between Syracuse Hillel and Jewish students in Greek Life through 1 - 2 large scale (100+ attendees) events each semester, 2 - 3 smaller scale initiatives, and engaging a point of contact in each fraternity/sorority with Jewish membership.
• Engage in discovery conversations with students to create 2-3 new initiatives each semester based on student interests and priorities

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

Meet with students from different cohorts and demographics on campus to engage them, identify their interests and connect to opportunities. Map out a plan to strategically build one-on-one relationships with 180 - 200 students to deepen their connection to Jewish life and strengthen the Syracuse Hillel community by proactively finding students less engaged with Jewish life.Supervise and mentor student leaders who are responsible for peer-to-peer engagement across campus.Recruit for and teach Jewish Learning Fellowship for first years in the fall semester.Be part of a team of professionals dedicated to creating an excellent Hillel to provide for the needs of Syracuse University’s 2,500 Jewish students.

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 Syracuse, New York; remote work is not available for this position 
• 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.
• Confidence initiating and running programs, and comfort asking questions.
• Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel.

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).

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.

Springboard Fellow

Tulane University

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Tulane 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 . Tulane Hillel’s core mission is to create a radically inclusive community, develop students’ leadership, and encourage curiosity through our Jewish values. We are an action-oriented community that serves as a training ground for emerging leaders. We use a student-centric model that keeps student voices and needs at the center of our decision-making and event implementation. 

You are passionate about connecting with others in meaningful ways, are an outstanding active listener, and can take students on a journey that helps them build skills in the pursuit of activating their enthusiasm about causes and bringing dynamic events to their peer community. 

 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.

Tulane Hillel prioritizes our team members’ growth and professional development. If you are excited to get feedback and grow in big ways, you will find yourself at home here. Everyone says they love feedback until they get some - we want folks who crave that and will respond with growth and effort. 

Finally - let us be clear: Tulane Hillel is a fun, energetic, vibrant community. Working at Tulane Hillel will be a pivot point in your life and career. 

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: 

Cultivate and steward a portfolio of 300-400 students understanding how to build authentic connections over time and guide engagement effectively. Activate students to create 10+ student-led programs per semester. Mentor students in our Tulane Hillel Leadership Network cohort to build their skills and help maximize their potential while on campus.

• Utilize design thinking strategies to increase the diversity and range of students involved at Tulane Hillel; build 2+ new meaningful student relationships every week.
• Effectively carry out administrative tasks weekly, such as student contact documentation, tasking via project management software, and information sharing and progress updates with colleagues in weekly meetings. 
• Contribute meaningfully to an incredible organizational culture that is the center of Jewish life at Tulane. 
• Identify professional development goals and take advantage of local, national, and international resources, conferences, and mentorship to grow towards these goals. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Create and lead student outreach and recruitment programming through identification of and engagement with uninvolved student populations and develop programs and events to reach them. Strategically identify and recruit students who would be great Hillel student leaders. 
• Mentor students in the Tulane Hillel Leadership Network (THLN) program to create programs and initiatives that will engage their peers and further the Jewish connections they make on campus. 
• Staff and logistically support programs (Shabbat, Welcome Week events, on-campus outreach, etc.) in cooperation with the engagement staff team.  
• Represent Tulane Hillel on campus with students, faculty, and administration as appropriate, as well as with the wider community. Internalize Tulane and New Orleans culture.
• Serve as an effective Team Member for broad programmatic priorities and operations by being a value add to the staff team by ensuring you are collaborating with colleagues, responding efficiently to assigned tasks, asking for assistance when needed, and stepping up as challenges our students bring and the wider environment present.
• Work alongside college students in a dynamic campus environment, maintaining a work schedule that includes evenings and weekends as needed to meet student availability and programmatic needs.

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 Growth-Oriented: You see challenges as opportunities to learn, embrace feedback, and continuously push yourself and others to improve and evolve.
• You Thrive on Impact and Efficiency: You manage high volumes of work thoughtfully, finding smart ways to maximize output without sacrificing quality, and consistently rise to meet ambitious goals.

 ~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 New Orleans, LA; remote work is not available for this position 
• Emotional intelligence and social interaction skills to be able to meaningfully connect with a broad range of students across many lines of difference.
• Community-organizing skills and exceptional interpersonal, speaking, social media, and writing skills.  
• Strong organizational and time management skills are required. 
• Passion, energy, innovative spirit, flexibility, a good sense of humor, and primary experience with Jewish life (informal or formal) are all essential.  
• A year or more of full-time, summer, or internship/apprenticeship employment is desirable. 
• You embrace obstacles as opportunities, learning quickly and applying insights to improve outcomes.
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know and excitement to learn in those areas.

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).