Cohen Hillel at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Role Overview

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 Design Thinking methodology and other entrepreneurial frameworks, and exposed to the most successful initiatives from across the Hillel movement, Fellows will work with students to imagine, create, and refine experiences for 21st century 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 operates in its next century.

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.

The Springboard Fellow at University of Illinois will focus their work on program logistics and empowering students through programming. They will provide support in the planning, promoting and logistics of Hillel programs and work with student groups to create an active and vibrant Jewish community on campus. The Fellow will work with the Assistant Director and other staff and students to identify gaps in the current programming visions. The SB Fellow will work with students, both those from the student leadership and uninvolved students, to plan one-off programs to fill those gaps.

To be successful in this position you must be team-oriented, entrepreneurial, and motivated by results. We're looking for people who embrace challenges, take risks, fail, and learn from the past, while maintaining their passion and sense of humor.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Creates relationships with 180 individual students with limited involvement in Jewish life and refers students to resources.
• Oversees daily implementation of Hillel programming process through maintaining Program List, program proposal documents, space and food requests, and shopping list
• Identifies and engages students not represented by current Hillel programs
• Empowers new students to get involved in programming on campus
• Supervises Programming Administrative Intern
• Works with the Springboard Fellow: Communications Manager, to organize Hillel's programmatic communication strategy
• Give logistical support and participate in Holiday and Shabbat programming
• Participates as a full member of The Hillels of Illinois Staff in local, regional and national Hillel programs and programs of the Jewish Federation as may be appropriate.
• Directly supports JUF campaign integration on an ongoing basis in addition to mandatory campaign-related activities

REQUIREMENTS:

• A Bachelor's degree
• Passion for Jews, Judaism and Israel.
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills
• Proud to be a Jewish role model
• Ability to keep professional demeanor during stressful times
• A dynamic personality and outstanding interpersonal skills
• An entrepreneurial spirit, willingness to take risks and the ability to learn from efforts that don't work out as planned
• High organizational and people skills.
• Significant computer skills, including MS Office, Google Docs, CRM and social media.
• Must be willing to work nights and weekends

What you'll get out of Springboard:

• A base salary of $44,000 in year 1 and $46,500 in year 2
• High-level professional development, including $3,200 in professional development funds, to help develop core skills in experiential education, including learning from some of the most innovative organizations in Jewish education today.
• 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 following COVID-19 safety guidelines).

What you'll get out of JUF:

• Illini Hillel is part of the Hillels of Illinois, a department of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Chicago (JUF). As an employee of JUF, your comprehensive benefits package includes up to 22 days paid time off, up to 10 sick days, 8 paid federal holidays and up to 13 paid Jewish holidays, 6 weeks paid parental leave, medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) and 403(b) plans, additional health and wellness benefits, financial benefits, and tuition reimbursement. It also includes great professional development, mentoring, skill building opportunities and continued learning opportunities as part of the global Hillel movement (plus an unlimited supply of Hillel swag)