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You will be updated with latest job alerts via emailAs the Senior Director of Jewish Student life at Harvard Hillel you will bear primary responsibility for supporting Harvard Jewish students as they create a Jewish community of meaning with and for one another. You will be in equal parts committed to an outcome an inspiring Jewish community that deepens and sweetens students lives Jewish students and a discipline of student empowerment whereby students take responsibility for one another and their community gaining lifeshaping firsthand experience of the integrity and dignity of caring for others.
This role means painting on a big canvas: what how and who of all of Harvards Jewish students undergraduate and graduate: how students (within and beyond the Jewish community) receive information about Hillels offerings; what trips (to Israel and elsewhere) students are designing and their itineraries; making Shabbat and holidays into sacred communal moments that are widely accessible; nurturing a respectful and vibrant culture of religious (and other types of) pluralism; supporting the Campus Rabbis creation of a curriculum of Jewish education that draws on Hillels staff and the universitys Jewish faculty; forging a community of kindness and purpose; and presenting Israel to both Jewish and nonJewish audiences. For the how: it will not be you or the staff but students whom you mentor and guide who will do this work and you will always be looking beyond who is included or showing up with the selfstarting initiative to imagine and create new initiatives that expand the circle of belonging. From beginning to end you will be a personal and Jewish role model for students and staff leading with energy brilliance integrity curiosity and humility.
The SDJSL leads a staff of 5.5 fulltime employees which is poised to grow over the coming years and a budget of roughly half a million dollars (again with potential for significant growth). The ideal candidate has extensive and intensive experience in immersive Jewish educational leadership such as multiple summers as a rosh eidah at a summer camp and has developed their own method of building tightknit Jewish community through diverse registers including food study music travel and fun.
Harvard Hillel sees Israel the land the people and the state as a pillar of Jewish identity creativity and complexity; alongside Shabbat Torah study and hesed. We are aware of and respectful of our student bodys vast diversity of experience thought and feeling related to Israel as reality and idea and aim to both educate and empower knowing that at times there will be an irreducible tension between these two values.
This person will be a member of the senior leadership team along with Executive Director COO Campus Rabbi and Director of Development. Success in this job over several years will equip you with experiences a reputation and a network that will enable you to take on exciting and growing leadership in the Jewish community in the subsequent stages of your career.
OnCampus Jewish Student Life
Jewish and Israel Education
Immersive Experiences
Communications
Supervision and Management
Any candidate for this position must be organized animated by the potential and urgency of Jewish life and deeply concerned with the welfare and flourishing of others. The most important experience we are looking for is the ability to be a Jewish leader organize people and projects and the ability to inspire commitment and action. To be considered candidates must demonstrate 48 years of experience in one or more of the following: Hillel Jewish camping Jewish education or Rabbinic leadership.
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Harvard Hillel is the Jewish center of the worlds greatest university. Home to 500 Jewish undergraduates and 1800 Jewish graduate students Harvard Hillels mission is to train a generation of Jewish students to lead a divided Jewish community in an uncertain future by helping mentoring them as they create an inspiring lifeshaping community of meaning with and for one another during their years as students.
Harvard 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.
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.
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