Role Overview
Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining USC 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 . USC has an undergraduate Jewish population of 2,000 Jewish students who come from all over the country and world to enjoy interdisciplinary academic studies, preprofessional opportunities, and robust social life. USC Hillel offers a welcoming environment to nurture a strong Jewish community that emphasizes student-led, staff-supported work to uplift student ideas. Hillel offers opportunities for students to become leaders, mentors, and community members within the greater USC and Los Angeles communities.
At USC Hillel, you will join a dynamic, talented student life team that works collaboratively to create unforgettable Jewish experiences. You will connect with students from all backgrounds of Jewish life and all identities and assure them that there is no such thing as “not Jewish enough.” You will share your Jewish story with students to inspire them to get involved in our community. You'll wake up each day 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:
- Actively contribute to building and sustaining the USC Hillel community by engaging 250+ students every year
- Conduct 75+ coffee conversations each academic year
- Help USC Hillel reach 1,200 Jewish students (and 1,800 students total) in an academic year
- Collaborate with students to create innovative programming opportunities on and off campus
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
- Serve as the primary engager of first-year students and Greek Life students and meet with them one on one or in small groups
- Work with student leaders to develop programs based on the interest, passions, and needs of the students.
- Collaborate on our weekly Shabbat experiences and annual holiday programming and large-scale events
- Actively promote and recruit for all Hillel programming.
- Create and execute pop-ups on campus.
- Contribute to our online presence through Instagram, newsletters, and our website
- Recruit for Alternative Break and Birthright Israel trips and staff as needed
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 Los Angeles, CA; remote work is not available for this position
Examples:
- Extroverted energy when it comes to meeting new people and helping them find community.
- Excitement for ideating, creating, and executing engaging programming and experiences in partnership with students.
- Collaborative spirit with the ability to work in teams with both professionals and students.
- Readiness and determination to learn from mistakes, ask questions, and pivot when things don’t go according to plan.
- Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and motivation to learn in those areas.
- Creative problem-solving.
- Commitment to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism.
- Fluency in social media and content creation apps, including Instagram and Canva
What You’ll Receive
- Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $46,000 - $50,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and the salary range is $48,000- $52,000 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, following COVID-19 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 1,000 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.