Director of Engagement

Brody Jewish Center, Hillel at the University of Virginia

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining the Brody Jewish Center, Hillel at the University of Virginia, as the Director of Engagement. As Director of Engagement, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of the overall student engagement strategy for the BJC, which seeks to connect students at UVA to the Hillel at UVA community. 

You live and model a passionately Jewish life, are a master relationship builder, understand the makeup of the Jewish community at UVA, possess extremely high emotional intelligence, and thrive being “in it” with those you’re serving. You will utilize these skills to supervise our Springboard Innovation Fellow, coach student leaders through engagement work, and actively develop relationships with the wide breadth of Jewish students at UVA. 

You will be the primary staff member responsible for embracing and implementing our values of:

1. Knowing every student by name and story.
2. Creating pluralistic, welcoming, and inclusive communities
3. Fostering students' intellectual, social, and emotional growth

As Director of Engagement, you’ll drive Hillel forward by applying relationship-based engagement, positive energy, passion, and creativity to your work. You’ll develop and oversee the implementation of the Brody Jewish Center’s engagement strategy, supervise student interns, coach them in their engagement goals, and contribute to the overall vision for supporting and growing our student community. 

What You’ll Do

• Develop and manage the implementation of the Brody Jewish Center’s overall engagement strategy, bringing in various staff members to help move the strategy forward throughout the year. 
• Manage data collection and analysis to better understand the BJC’s impact on students month-to-month, sharing that data with staff to help direct their efforts to engage students.
• Oversee the First Year Experience (FYE) Cohort of student interns, ensuring that the BJC continues to grow a robust incoming/first year student experience and develop an engaged, consistent, and vibrant class that will sustain connection all four years.
• Supervise the Springboard Innovation Fellow, coaching them as a new professional and helping them test innovative strategies that will help meet engagement goals of the BJC, specifically in the less engaged student demographics. 
• Manage special events throughout the year with a focus on breadth programming and engaging new and less active students, often in collaboration with other staff and student leaders. These projects might include large-scale Shabbat experiences, Bagels on the Lawn, Welcome Week, Camp WaJew, Lawnukkah, Matzo Ball, etc. 
• Work with the Director of Israel Engagement & Global Jewish Experience to carry out the recruitment plan for Immersive experiences, understanding that immersives are a major entry point for engagement. 
• Engage in meaningful one-on-one and small group conversations focused on getting students to feel comfortable and excited about participating in BJC events and programs. 
• Provide leadership in marketing, public relations, and promotional activities as appropriate, including student social media engagement, to help more students connect with the BJC.

On a day to day basis you will

• Meet 1:1 (or in small groups) with students on Grounds, focusing outreach and engagement on those who have been seen 0-3 times each year. 
• Mentor, manage, and support the Springboard Innovation Fellow, helping them to connect their day-to-day responsibilities with the larger BJC engagement strategy and ensuring that their work is consistent, professional, and strategic. 
• Coach, train, and advise FYE interns so they, in turn, build a strong first-year class that is connected to the BJC community. 
• Lead the charge on large-scale event preparation, bringing in necessary student interns and staff members to collaborate on projects and ensure the timely execution of each major event
• Oversee student operations systems (RSVP system, catering, and communications), and manage social media engagement via student newsletters and social media accounts, highlighting the relationships, events, and opportunities available to the student community and larger community. 
• Direct team members on weekly social media engagement opportunities unique to their professional platform and hold team members accountable for virtual engagement strategies.  
• Routinely track and assess student participation data using the HEART database system, and use this information to tell a story about where staff and student interns can be making an impact on less engaged students.

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• 2+ years of experience in Jewish nonprofit, student engagement, events management, or a related field.
• Being a master relationship builder and connector. 
• A generative and strategic mind! You’re prepared to look at student impact data and trends and use that to drive student engagement strategy forward. 
• A deep passion for building pluralistic Jewish communities and creating a welcoming, vibrant, and deeply enriching Jewish environment on and around campus 
• A genuine curiosity about people and a desire to understand who they are and what they find meaningful
• An ability to be agile and to change course as needed with a positive attitude. 
• Comfort managing and executing multiple projects at once. 
• Clear and concise spoken and written communication skills. 
• Willingness to mentor and help student leaders grow, and an eye for cultivating student leadership. 
• Comfortability with working as part of a dynamic team as well as independently

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the non-profit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $60,000-$65,000
• A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, Group Supplemental Retirement Annuity (GSRA), pension plan, life insurance, Long Term Disability (LTD), Flexible Spending Plan, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave.
• Great professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities, attending at least one professional conference a year
• Flexibility in scheduling and during student breaks
• Opportunities for international travel at least 1x a year.

About Brody Jewish Center

BJC seeks to empower Jewish students to engage with their tradition in relevant and meaningful ways and to inspire a lifelong relationship with Judaism and the Jewish people.  BJC serves more than 1,000 undergraduate Jewish students, and more than 500 Jewish graduate students at the University. The Jewish community at the University of Virginia is thriving. BJC is an organization for students and run by students. Students at BJC are actively involved in visioning and programming, and they are true partners in the work of creating Jewish community at UVA.

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

About Charlottesville

Just a 2-2.5 hour car or train ride from the DC area, and nestled at the foot of the Shenandoah National Park, Charlottesville is a great place to live for those looking for local charm, a lower cost of living, friendly people, access to the outdoors, all while still offering a small city feel . UVA is one of Charlottesville's biggest attractions, with excellent and accessible sporting events, a vibrant graduate student community, and rich history, but the city has so much else to offer. Known for its wineries, breweries, food scene, coffee scene, book and film festivals, run clubs, historical landmarks, hiking, and other recreational activities, it’s easy to spend a weekend in Charlottesville getting a little taste of everything! 

Charlottesville’s Jewish community is small but active and offers a local synagogue, a Chabad House, Hillel, a Jewish preschool, a young adult Jewish community, and more.

Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. 

Data & Analytics

Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) team offers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges.

We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics.

We deliver data and analytical solutions designed to streamline reporting capabilities and enhance business insights across vast and complex data sets ranging from Sales, Operations, Marketing, Pricing, Customer Strategies, and more.

This role can be based in any of our US office locations and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location.

This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

About the Role and You

Lead end-to-end delivery of modern data platforms for our clients—owning scope, schedule, budget, and outcomes. You’ll run agile delivery teams, guide medallion/lakehouse architectures, and partner with clients to translate business goals into scalable solutions on Snowflake, Azure & Databricks.

What You'll Do

• Own program delivery: Drive planning, execution, risk/issue management, RAID logs, dependencies, and executive status reporting across multi-workstream data initiatives.
• Lead agile teams: Stand up and mature Scrum/Kanban ceremonies, backlog hygiene, velocity forecasting, and release management across data engineering, analytics, and platform ops.
• Architectural stewardship: Ensure adherence to medallion (bronze/silver/gold) patterns, data contracts, CI/CD for data, and governance/quality controls (DQ rules, lineage, observability).
• Cloud & platform delivery: Orchestrate environments, security, and cost controls for Snowflake and Azure (ADF/Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, Key Vault, Purview).
• Client leadership: Serve as the day-to-day executive contact; run steering committees, manage change requests, and drive stakeholder alignment and adoption.
• Commercials & quality: Own SOW scope, staffing, and margin; forecast and track budgets; enforce delivery standards and acceptance criteria tied to business KPIs.
• Enablement: Coach PMs and tech leads; codify playbooks/templates for repeatable delivery; contribute to proposals and pre-sales as needed.
• Travel to client sites as needed

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of technology delivery leading data platform or analytics programs in consulting/professional services.
• Proven success managing $1M–$5M+ multi-workstream programs with distributed teams.
• Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake (warehouses, RBAC, performance/cost tuning) and Azure data services (ADF/Fabric, Databricks, Synapse, ADLS, networking & security).
• Strong command of agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), Jira/Azure DevOps, release planning, and CI/CD for data (Git-based workflows, environments).
• Practical experience implementing medallion architectures and lakehouse patterns, data modeling, and data quality/observability.
• Stakeholder management at VP/C-suite level; crisp written/oral communication and executive reporting.
• Nice to have: regulated industries, FinOps for data platforms, data privacy/compliance (GDPR/CCPA), and analytics enablement (Power BI/Fabric).

Preferred requirements

• BS/MS in CS, IS, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or SAFe; Snowflake SnowPro; Microsoft Azure (DP-203, AZ-305) a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• Programs delivered on-time/on-budget with measurable business outcomes (e.g., SLA improvements, cost per query reductions, faster time-to-insight).
• Stable, secure, and cost-efficient Snowflake/Azure platforms with clear operating models and playbooks.
• High client satisfaction (CSAT/NPS) and referenceable accounts.

The annual salary for this role ranges from: $112,500 to $200,000 USD + benefits + bonus. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity.

Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical​​​ condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or ​expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.

Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

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*PLEASE NOTE: this role requires the employee to be located in Charlotte, NC and come into our Southend office three days a week.* 

The Role 

We’re looking for an Agile Project Manager who does more than keep teams on track — someone who brings clarity to complexity and helps teams make better decisions. 

You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and stakeholders to drive delivery while anticipating risks, surfacing insights, and translating business priorities into clear, actionable plans. This role operates at both the team and system level — connecting day-to-day execution to broader outcomes. 

You’ll lead multiple teams through planning and delivery, while shaping how we scale, align, and continuously improve. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead Agile ceremonies and delivery practices, ensuring meetings drive decisions, not just updates  
• Partner with Product and Engineering to translate business goals into clear, executable plans across teams  
• Proactively identify risks, dependencies, and gaps — and address or escalate them early and clearly  
• Remove impediments by driving ownership and alignment, not just surfacing blockers  
• Build and communicate insights (metrics, trends, risks) that inform better decisions at both team and leadership levels  
• Connect work across teams and initiatives to ensure alignment with broader business priorities  
• Challenge assumptions and raise ideas that improve team effectiveness, delivery, and clarity  
• Coach teams on Agile principles, accountability, and prioritization to improve flow and predictability  

 How You Operate 

• You think beyond the ticket — connecting team execution to business outcomes  
• You proactively raise risks, ideas, and tradeoffs — even when it’s uncomfortable  
• You escalate clearly and early, with context and proposed paths forward  
• You bring structure to ambiguity and help teams move forward without waiting for perfect clarity  
• You communicate with precision and intent, tailoring your message to your audience  
• You take initiative — doing the thinking, not waiting for direction 

 Qualifications 

Experience 

• • Experience managing or coordinating software development work in an Agile environment 
  • Demonstrated ownership in driving delivery, aligning stakeholders, and proactively addressing risks 
  • Strong familiarity with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)   
  • Experience leading Agile ceremonies and using metrics to guide team performance 
  • Proven ability to translate complex technical or delivery concepts into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences  
  • Experience operating across multiple teams, workflows, or delivery models, with the ability to understand how they interconnect and impact overall delivery 

Skills & Attributes 

• • Strong systems thinker who can identify dependencies, risks, and broader impact across teams  
  • Communicates complex ideas clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences  
  • Proactive operator who identifies issues and acts before they become blockers  
  • Comfortable influencing without authority and challenging assumptions when needed  
  • Demonstrates sound judgment in when to push, when to escalate, and when to unblock directly  
  • Maintains composure and focus in fast-moving, ambiguous environments  
  • Demonstrated ability to proactively drive alignment and influence outcomes in cross-functional settings  

 What Success Looks Like 

• Teams have clear direction and move with confidence  
• Risks and dependencies are surfaced early — not discovered late  
• Stakeholders feel informed, aligned, and not surprised  
• Teams continuously improve how they plan and deliver  
• You are seen as a trusted partner in both execution and decision-making 

ABOUT LENDINGTREE

LendingTree is the nation’s leading online lending marketplace. We connect consumers with multiple lenders so they can easily compare options and find the right fit — from mortgages and personal loans to credit, savings, and insurance products. 

Our founder, Doug Lebda, started LendingTree in 1996 after his own frustrating house-hunting experience. What began as a simple idea to make loan shopping easier has grown into a platform that empowers millions of people to make smarter financial decisions every day.

What else you should know:

• We’re a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to expand our reach and capabilities.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.
• We’re also committed to giving back — through philanthropic programs, volunteer opportunities, and partnerships that strengthen the communities where we live and work.

OUR CULTURE

We’re a collaborative, entrepreneurial team that values curiosity, creativity, and getting things done together. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most driven people you’ll meet — and we celebrate innovation, inclusion, and ownership. At LendingTree, you’ll find an inclusive culture where diverse perspectives make us stronger. We believe in working hard and supporting one another — with the flexibility and trust that help you thrive both personally and professionally.

We’re proud to offer generous benefits, wellness programs, and time-off policies designed to help you recharge, stay healthy, and bring your best self to work every day. And yes — we still have fun doing it (our “GSD – Get Stuff Done” award is a fan favorite!)

Come grow with us, make an impact, and be part of a company that truly cares about its people and its community.

LendingTree is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.

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