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).

Rabbi & Director of Jewish Life

Oregon Hillel - University of Oregon & Oregon State University

Role Overview 

Located in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon Hillel is the center of Jewish student life at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, with our Hillel House based in Eugene.  Oregon Hillel is a student-centric organization that is focused on building relationships with students in an open and accepting pluralistic environment.  We create a culture of equality, transparency, and respect that empowers students to incubate and actualize their ideas and interests, expand and diversify their social networks, access valuable opportunities for professional growth and  build the Jewish community that is relevant and exciting to their personal development.

Join Oregon Hillel as our Rabbi & Director of Jewish Life to help enrich the lives of students and shape the future of Jewish life at UO & OSU. As an authentic Jewish teacher, you will inspire and guide the Jewish students at UO & OSU so that they will actively engage in the process of building and sustaining vibrant, meaningful, and pluralistic Jewish campus communities. As the Rabbi & Director of Jewish Life, you will play a key role in building Jewish community through meaningful conversations, collaborative ventures, educational experiences, and innovative approaches to religious life. Embrace your magnetic personality to inspire students to make Judaism integral to their life choices and expressed Jewish values

What You’ll Do

• Identify needs of the Jewish communities on campus that are underserved and develop strategies for meeting these needs with proven community organizing, outreach, and relationship-building methods.
• Build relationships with approximately 200-300 students from diverse backgrounds through meaningful conversations and by creating connections to opportunities to participate in Jewish life on campus. A significant portion of these students should be previously uninvolved in Jewish life.
• Ensure a pluralistic and welcoming atmosphere by strengthening and growing the multiple worship and learning options offered by Oregon Hillel
• Advise and mentor student interns and volunteers, empowering them to create regular, warm, welcoming, and inspiring ritual and Jewish experiences for their peers
• Lead, coordinate, implement, and evaluate all aspects of major Jewish holiday programming and observances on campus, including Shabbat (at least one a month at OSU), High Holidays, and Passover.
• Develop and support vibrant Jewish experiences, one-on-one or in small group learning opportunities,, and with educational programs, including immersive trips, as students find relevant. Pilot creative, new educational approaches and initiatives on campus.
• Collaborate with other Oregon Hillel senior-level staff to shape and develop the mission and educational vision of Oregon Hillel.
• Develop and nurture relationships with junior-level staff, university student life staff, religious life staff, and the local Jewish community.

What You’ve Accomplished

• Rabbinic ordination from an accredited institution
• 4+ years of relevant work experience which includes experiences with Hillel, youth movements, camping, or experiential Jewish education is helpful.
• Proven success in community building, and previous experience in program visioning and implementation.
• Training and experience in counseling, administration, development/fundraising is desirable.

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• A strong knowledge base of Jewish content, ranging from traditional Jewish texts to contemporary Jewish wisdom, culture, and unconventional Jewish sources.
• Expertise in leading complex conversations about Judaism and Israel in a way that is approachable and meets students at various points in their personal Jewish journeys.
• A commitment to creating an inclusive, vibrant, and pluralistic Jewish community.
• A passion for engaging students through Jewish learning and religious practice and an ability to foster intellectual, spiritual, and ethical curiosity and exploration.
• Confidence in initiating and running programs, and comfort in asking questions.
• Creative problem-solving, proactive communication, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Oregon Hillel.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the non-profit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $100,000 - $110,000
• 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.
• Great professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities.
• Travel regionally and abroad, particularly to Israel.

About Oregon Hillel

Since 1993, the Oregon Hillel Foundation has served as the Jewish home away from home for the 1,600+ Jewish students at the University of Oregon, and as of the fall of 2014, our 500+ Jewish students at Oregon State University. Oregon Hillel is a student-centric and data driven team that is committed to thinking big and being pro-active to create new and exciting opportunities to invest in our students' ideas and to empower them to activate their community.  

Eugene and Corvallis are truly special places to live:

• Eugene is the 2nd largest Jewish community in the state of Oregon with a population of 179,000 while Corvallis has a big-city feel with small-town charm and a population of 69,000.
• Both Eugene and Corvallis are very livable communities, with excellent medical care, top-notch public schools, a variety of youth sports programs from kindergarten through high school, and interesting and diverse neighborhoods in which to live.  
• You will be located in the middle of the Willamette Valley, close to the city of Portland, the Oregon coast, the rivers of the high desert of Bend, and the Cascade Mountains. Eugene and Corvallis have several riverfront parks and bike paths, access to local hiking, and its proximity to miles of country roads to bicycle draw many of our residents.  
• Eugene is home to the Oregon Ducks, who field exciting teams in football, baseball, basketball, softball, track and field, and others.  We are known as Track Town USA. Wearing a hat or tee-shirt emblazoned with an Oregon “O” will bring you a “Sco Ducks” from other Duck fans around the world.
• Corvallis is home to the Oregon State Beavers, and one of the country’s top rated college towns. The State of Oregon’s largest university, OSU has more than 400 student clubs and organizations, NCAA Division I athletics, and extensive research, leadership, and career experiences, OSU offers something for everyone.

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

As a Senior Engineer, Field Process, you will help expand ASM’s advanced film technologies at our customer’s Oregon site by developing, optimizing, and transferring innovative ALD, PEALD, PECVD, Epitaxy, and LPCVD processes. You will serve as the technical link between customer engineering teams and ASM’s global Business Unit, ensuring new products and processes are introduced smoothly and successfully. Your work directly supports ASM’s mission to accelerate next‑generation semiconductor manufacturing through collaboration, technical excellence, and customer partnership.

What you will be working on

• MS degree with relevant internship, research, or academic project experience, or PhD with relevant academic, research, or internship experience in materials science, chemical engineering, or physics.
• Hands-on experience through internships, research, or academic projects involving processing, developing, or characterizing thin films using thermal ALD, plasma ALD, plasma CVD, epitaxy, or LPCVD reactors.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting and structured problem-analysis skills gained through internships, lab work, or research projects (e.g., KT, FMEA, Ishikawa, 7-step methodologies).
• Experience designing, running, and interpreting DOEs or statistical experiments in academic, research, or internship settings.
• Familiarity with semiconductor device applications, vacuum techniques, metrology, and thin film characterization through coursework, lab work, or internships.
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed for training and customer engagement; flexibility to support extended hours or weekends during qualifications or escalations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and uphold IP boundaries.

What we are looking for

• MS degree with relevant internship, research, or academic project experience, or PhD with relevant academic, research, or internship experience in materials science, chemical engineering, or physics.
• Hands-on experience through internships, research, or academic projects involving processing, developing, or characterizing thin films using thermal ALD, plasma ALD, plasma CVD, epitaxy, or LPCVD reactors.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting and structured problem-analysis skills gained through internships, lab work, or research projects (e.g., KT, FMEA, Ishikawa, 7-step methodologies).
• Experience designing, running, and interpreting DOEs and statistical experiments.
• Familiarity with semiconductor device applications, vacuum techniques, metrology, and thin‑film characterization.
• Ability to travel as needed for training and customer engagement; flexibility to support extended hours or weekends during qualifications or escalations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to explain complex concepts clearly.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and uphold IP boundaries.

What sets you apart

• Internship, research, or academic experience with ASM ALD, PEALD, PECVD, epitaxy, or vertical furnace LPCVD equipment.
• Demonstrated success optimizing deposition processes in research, pilot, or high-volume manufacturing–adjacent environments.
• Exposure to customer-facing technical discussions, presentations, or technical reviews through internships or collaborative research.
• Experience supporting process transfer, scale-up, or qualification activities in academic, pilot, or industrial settings.
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally and contributing to structured action plans during technical challenges or escalations.