Assistant Director, Student Engagement - Jewish at Duke

Assistant Director, Student Engagement - Jewish Life at Duke

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The Assistant Director, Student Engagement (AD) is an integral part of the Jewish Life at Duke (JLD) team, and helps the organization strive to meet its mission to empower students to learn and grow intellectually and spiritually, to inspire and nurture personal paths to Jewish identity, and to cultivate community and friendship. The AD engages in JLD’s one‑on‑one engagement strategy, uses Hillel International best practices and student engagement data to help JLD improve the overall organization’s outreach strategy, plans and executes programming (educational, social, cultural, etc.),

coaches students in developing and executing programming, leads student‑facing marketing/communications efforts, and strengthens the overall support that JLD offers to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students at Duke.

• Meet one‑on‑one with undergraduate and graduate/professional students re: their Jewish journeys and engagement e allocation should be 75% undergraduate student engagement, 25% graduate student engagement. Set student engagement goals accordingly.
• Coach and assist JLD’s Springboard Fellow with logistics of large‑scale, student‑collaborative programming such as the JFAM (Jewish First‑Year Advisory Mentorship) program and the B’nai Mitzvah, including managing budgets.
• Serve as the staff advisor to various student groups, including Jewish Service Club and Jewtinos.
• Liaise with graduate student groups including Jewish Business Association, Jewish Law Student Association, and Jewish Medical Student Association. Assess needs and support graduate and professional Jewish students. Administer JLD’s funding support to these student groups.
• Develop leadership initiatives for leaders of JLD‑affiliated student groups; work with other JLD staff advisors on such initiatives.
• Supervise JLD student interns, including hiring, training, mentorship, project assignments, and evaluation.
• Develop collaborative programming with other Identity and Cultural centers and build relationships by meeting regularly with ADs of those centers.
• Meet regularly with the student leaders of the Jewish Business Association, Jewish Law
• Assist with and attend key ritual/holiday events, including Shabbat services and Friday night dinners weekly during the academic year, High Holidays, and Passover, so as best to engage with students. Help with set‑up, sign‑in, and logistics for these and other events as needed.

• Serve as JLD’s team lead for Hillel International best practices for student engagement; gather and implement these best practices; educate JLD team members and student leaders and coach them to implement these best practices in programming and engagement.
• Serve as JLD’s student engagement database super‑user: ensure data integrity and accuracy, attend Hillel International trainings related to database improvements, run regular reports, coach JLD staff and student users on the database features.
• Use student engagement data to inform JLD’s weekly engagement strategy and student outreach objectives.
• In collaboration with Campus Rabbi, develop goals and evaluative measures to assess and improve student outreach.
• In collaboration with Director, draft segments of annual assessment report.

• Oversee and execute the weekly student email newsletters, texting program, and social media calendar. Coach and guide student interns to create content for review and posting.
• Collaborate with other Identity and Cultural Centers to be sure that, where appropriate, JLD content is included in their weekly communications, and that their content is included in JLD’s weekly communications.
• Annually, oversee and execute JLD’s welcome efforts to first‑year students.
• Along with JLD’s team, communicate with incoming students…