Springboard Innovation Fellow at Cincinnati Hillel
Springboard Innovation Fellow at Cincinnati Hillel
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Role Overview
Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Cincinnati Hillel as the Springboard 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 . With a strong studentfacing staff team the Springboard fellow will work with the Wellness coordinator and campus Rabbi to create meaningful and unique experiences.
As a Springboard fellow at Cincinnati Hillel you will get to spend the next twoyears directly impacting the experience of Jewish students on campus while advancing your own professional growth. You will spend your days engaged in meaningful conversations with students thinking creatively about programming and initiatives and chatting away with your fun and dynamic coworkers. Youll 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 9to5.
About The Springboard Fellowship
The Springboard Fellowship is a paid twoyear 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 RelationshipBased Engagement HumanCentered 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 cuttingedge ideas that have the potential to transform how Hillel and creates inclusive spaces for #AllKindsOfJewish.
Were 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 Youll Do
GOALS:
- Actively grow the Jewish community at Cincinnati Hillel by engaging 200 students and helping our Hillel reach our overall organization engagement goals
- Map out a plan to strategically build oneonone relationships with 100 students currently not engaged in Jewish life.
- Identify student needs and create 35 new initiatives that bridge the gap in needs and helps make Hillel a stronger support system for all students
WHAT YOULL DO:
- Meet with students from different cohorts and demographics on campus to engage them identify their interests and connect to opportunities.
- Connect them with leadership roles in Hillel.
- Plan and facilitate weekly student intern meetings.
- Create manage and implement a social media strategy to increase engagement.
- Build cohort programming for Freshman and Greek life students
- Supervise student interns who are responsible for engaging their peers in Jewish life on campus.
- Integrate Jewish involvement in campuswide programming such as Sigma Sigma carnival and Take Back the Night
- Recruit for Fellowship programs.
Who You Are
- Youre A RelationshipBuilder: You thrive on meeting new people understanding their interests and forging meaningful connections.
- Youre A Collaborative Team Player: You enjoy working collaboratively with a team to solve problems and explore new initiatives.
- Youre A Passionate Learner: You love learning and continuously building up your Jewish knowledge.
- Youre An Innovative Educator: You believe in infusing education into captivating experiences that stimulate the imagination.
- Youre A Facilitator: You thrive in creating spaces for students to converse share ideas and explore and develop their own ideas on relevant issues.
- Youre 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.
- Youre A Creative Thinker: You are constantly reimagining the ordinary seeking ways to repurpose and improve things.
- Youre A Bold Visionary: Think big and creatively viewing everything as a possibility and embracing a risktaking entrepreneurial spirit.
Youre A Springboard Fellow
What Youll Bring to the Job
- 0 3 years professional work experience
- Bachelors degree
- This is an inperson role location in Cincinnati OH; remote work is not available for this position
- Strong communication skills and a team player. We want to hear your ideas and suggestions even if we dont always listen to them.
- Comfortable pivoting when plans are not going as expected
- Confidence initiating and running programs and comfort asking questions.
- Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel.
- Willingness to admit what you dont know and excitement to learn in those areas.
- Creative problemsolving. Always thinking of new ideas and ways to make things better
- Relationship Builder. You love meeting new people and are up for adventures out on the town
What Youll Receive
- Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary for this role is $46000 in year one of the Fellowship and $48000 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.
- Highlevel professional development to help develop core skills in experiential education including learning from some of the most innovative organizations in Jewish education today.
- $3200 in professional development funds from the Springboard Fellowship to utilize over the course of two years.
- Intensive Jewish summer and yearlong 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 COVID19 safety guidelines).
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
Grant
