Springboard Fellow at Cohen Hillel University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Springboard Fellow at Cohen Hillel at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Springboard Fellow

Hillel at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign 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. Your work at the first Hillel in the world will help first and second year students and prospective students gain confidence about being independent Jewish adults for the first time.

You will help build Hillel’s presence on campus through tabling, programming in campus buildings, and meeting students where they are. You will help student leaders fulfill their passion for community and service through forming and maintaining interest and identity based communities on campus. You will help guide the decisions of the prospective students through high school, camps and youth movement recruitment.

You'll 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 9-to-5.

About 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 #All Kinds Of Jewish .

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:

• Empower students to live Jewishly by forming relationships with 180 individual students with limited involvement in Jewish life focusing on the underclassmen (freshmen and sophomores).
• Identify needs for identity and interest based micro-communities and create opportunities for students to engage within those micro-communities. Such micro-communities include but are not limited to:
  Jewish Greek life, Jewish residence hall life, arts and culture, volunteerism, social justice, etc
• Identify and create 16 opportunities per semester for Hillel’s brand to be visible on campus including tabling on the quad, presence at dorms, libraries and campus buildings, participation in the University programs and more.
• Develop Hillel’s online brand by defining Hillel’s social media presence and managing Hillel’s Instagram, Tik Tok and Facebook accounts.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Meet with first and second year students from different cohorts and demographics on campus to engage them, identify their interests and connect to opportunities.
• Meet with students to help connect them with leadership roles, learning opportunities and immersive experiences provided by Hillel.
• Welcome students to campus through programs and help them build a network of support through coffee chats, multiple student meet-ups or large scale event planning.
• Work with the Engagement team to develop a creative vision for Hillel’s presence on campus (tabling, dorm activities, etc).
• Map out a plan to draw Jewish high school students to the University of Illinois through Hillel programming and engagement.
• Support engagement student interns with their work.
• Create social media content with students and staff.
• Staff Shabbat dinners, bagel brunches,…