Springboard Innovation Fellow at Hillel at Florida State University Foundation

Springboard Fellow 

Hillel at Florida State University 

Role Overview 

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining FSU 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 . FSU Hillel is unique in providing a meaningful Jewish experience on a campus attracting a wide variety of students from very small, rural, southern Jewish communities all the way to Miami, one of the largest in the nation. We offer a pluralistic atmosphere that encourages students to explore the full spectrum of Jewish expression in a safe and supportive environment. 

As a Springboard Fellow, your mission will be to co-lead student engagement, program planning, ritual/cultural learning and expression along with the rest of the FSU Hillel professional team by considering and projecting an innovative lens onto all we do. While 70-80% of your role will parallel other professionals in general student engagement, your aspirations to create a more inclusive Jewish experience on campus is critical in developing student leaders into compassionate visionaries. 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 

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 shaping FSU Hillel by engaging directly with students through programming, teaching, one on one coffee chats and innovative outreach strategies. 
• Collaborate with (and lead as needed) members of the Student Board, including coaching specific board positions and other Board related duties as assigned by the professional team. 
• Assist Professional team in all aspects of Hillel Operations. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO: 

• Meet with 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 in Hillel. 
• Participate in a wide variety of programming, leadership and wellness development, and outreach efforts, as agreed upon during weekly team huddles and weekly one on one supervision meeting 
• Assist in developing strategic and innovative engagement plans to maximize student involvement in Jewish life on campus
• Supervise student interns who are responsible for engaging their peers in Jewish life on campus. 

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 Tallahassee, Florida; remote work is not available for this position 
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit. Things may not always go according to plan and you must be willing to take risks and learn your wins as well as your losses. 
• Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel. ● Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas.
• Creative problem-solving. 

What You’ll Receive 

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $44,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and the salary range is $46,500 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 at Florida State University 

The students, staff, and lay leaders at FSU Hillel are dedicated to providing a welcoming, pluralistic, and inclusive atmosphere on campus. Pluralism is always at the core of what we do, and we recognize that there is not just one way to “be Jewish.” Students come from diverse backgrounds and beliefs. Our goal is to provide opportunities for students to explore their Judaism in a way that is meaningful to them. We are encouraging students to grow intellectually, spiritually, and socially. We help students find a balance in being “distinctly Jewish” and “universally human” by encouraging them to pursue tzedek (social justice), tikkun olam (repairing the world), Jewish learning, and to support Israel and global Jewish peoplehood.