Community Engagement Rabbi at Hillel at Florida State University
Community Engagement Rabbi at Hillel at Florida State University
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Job Description
Community Engagement Rabbi
Hillel at Florida State University
Role Overview
Hillel at Florida State University (FSU) is seeking a passionate and engaging Community Engagement Rabbi to build meaningful relationships with students and foster a dynamic inclusive Jewish community on campus. In this role you will serve as a mentor educator and spiritual leader helping students explore and deepen their Jewish identities through personal conversations educational initiatives and engaging communal experiences.
You will work collaboratively with student leaders and staff to create accessible and relevant Jewish programming support students in celebrating Shabbat and holidays and provide pastoral care and guidance. Whether facilitating Jewish learning leading thoughtprovoking discussions or simply meeting students oneonone for coffee you will play a vital role in shaping a welcoming and pluralistic Jewish environment at FSU.
Every selfidentifying Jew has a unique often unexplored Hillel journey and our Campus Engagement Rabbi will work tirelessly along with our engagement team to discover honor and impact those individuals deeply. This is an opportunity for a rabbi who is passionate about student engagement eager to innovate and committed to fostering Jewish life in a way that is meaningful approachable and empowering.
What Youll Do
- Oneonone Engagement: You will build relationships with students who are developing their Jewish self and seeking Jewish community and experiences. Meet students where they are: on campus for coffee throwing axes at a wellness event studying at the library or at Hillel Shabbat.
- Shabbat & Holidays: Support our student leaders and provide guidance when needed as they shape the prayer and holiday experiences for students with a variety of cultural and denominational backgrounds. Go beyond the performative to explore deeper meaning and intention within tradition and help invent new traditions to meet students spiritual needs.
- Jewish Learning: Deepen students Jewish experiences on campus by leading educational cohortbased opportunities with thoughtful learning. Utilize various Hillel International materials or create new content and experiment with strategies to deliver aha moments. International travel opportunities are available for immersive engagement.
- Pastoral care and Spiritual Wellness: Be an empathic voice for the unique challenges of our students. Add Jewish wisdom and practices to the suite of wellness skills and coping strategies that students can adopt to manage stress build resilience and increase their spiritual wellbeing.
What Youve Accomplished
- Rabbinic ordination and up to 2 years of experience (or equivalent experience in Jewish community leadership).
- Experience in community engagement with a focus on outreach strategies that are effective and durable.
- Appreciation for and experience with Generation Z or prior generations of 1822 year old people through Hillel youth movements camp or experiential Jewish education.
What Youll 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.
- Experience 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.
- Passion for connecting with people from different backgrounds with the goal of building authentic and meaningful relationships.
- Excellent communication and active listening skills.
What Youll Receive
- Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $commensurate with experience.
- A comprehensive benefits package including health insurance retirement plan with employer match life insurance Long Term Disability (LTD) Flexible Spending Plan vacation/sick time and parental leave.
- Great professional development mentoring and skill building opportunities.
- Travel regionally and abroad.
About Florida State University and Hillel at FSU
Florida State University is a calm apolitical campus climate where our growing population of nearly 4000 Jewish students thrive. Our FSU administration strongly supports Jewish students and our broader Jewish Community provides opportunities for our students to learn and enrich our world. FSU has been rated in the top 25 public Universities for the last six consecutive years. Our Hillel success equation blends these three contextual ingredients with our own mission and focus on student engagement leadership development and wellness.
The Hillel at FSU team is small yet mighty. We value empathy initiative teamwork and above all kindness and feel deeply about being a healthy safe environment and community for our staff and students.
Our Hillel serves undergraduate and graduate students and is a home away from home with an abundance of nourishment safety and community. Hillel at FSU is affiliated with Hillel International and works closely with their professional staff to envision a world where every student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life learning and Israel.
About Hillel International
In 1923 Rabbi Benjamin Frankel started Hillel with humble means a noble mission and a breathtaking vision: to convey Jewish civilization to a new generation. Today Hillel International continues to enrich the lives of Jewish students and is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world at nearly 1000 colleges and universities across North America and around the world. As Hillel evolves as an organization the mission remains steadfast: to create lasting connections with every Jewish student that foster an enduring commitment to Jewish life learning and Israel and train them to become the next Jewish leaders.
Hillel is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an accepting and inclusive environment for all.
Employment Type
Full Time
