Springboard Innovation Fellow at Hillel at Stanford

Springboard Fellow 

Hillel at Stanford 

Role Overview 

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel at Stanford as our 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. Stanford is a special place. Everyone is struck by the beauty of campus, the great weather, and the incredible wealth of opportunities to learn, grow, and explore on campus and across the San Francisco Bay Area. But beyond all that, our Hillel is a special one: housed in historic buildings in a prime location on campus, we have a big staff team serving an extraordinary group of students with vision, joy, and the resources to get interesting and important things done. 

As our Springboard Fellow, you will be a crucial member of our team. You’ll be the friendliest and most familiar face welcoming 120 new frosh to campus and helping them build community. You’ll mentor them and other undergrads in the skills of student leadership, with special emphasis on our FunCo (the students making joyful opportunities for peer connection) and TOAST (tikkun olam at Stanford) groups. You’ll plan and lead an awesome alternative spring break experience, and might do other international travel with students too. You’ll be a Jewish teacher and role model in formal and informal ways. Above all, you'll be the person with their finger on the pulse of who our students are, what they need, and how best to reach them. 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 Hillel at Stanford by engaging ~180 students.
• Plan, market, recruit and lead a domestic justice-focused alternative spring break trip for ~15 students 
• Collaborate with students and colleagues to support strong connections among Jewish undergraduates (especially frosh), in service of our goal of reaching 95% of Jewish undergrads. 
• Mentor and support the student leadership of FunCo, TOAST, and Challah for Stanford, along with other groups as are a good match for your talents and our needs, to facilitate them creating engaging opportunities for their peers. 
• Work with the broader Hillel team to ensure core community opportunities (shabbat, holidays, etc.) are appealing to students and executed excellently. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Meet with all kinds of students on campus to engage them, identify their interests and connect them to Jewish opportunities. 
• Map out a plan to strategically connect ~120 first-year students to each other and to Jewish life at Stanford. 
• Plan and facilitate weekly meetings with student leaders. 
• Co-teach at least one Jewish Learning Fellowship cohort per year. 
• Tell the story of what you’re doing, and what Hillel is doing, via social media and in other ways that reach students and stakeholders. 
• Recruit for Hillel travel opportunities like Alternative Break, Birthright Israel, Poland, Latin America etc. trips. 
• Staff the ASB and possibly other international travel. 

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
• The skills and instincts of a natural superconnector. You love meeting new people, getting to know them, and helping them connect to Jewish life in ways that reflect their needs and interests. 
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit. You are a creative problem solver who loves trying new things, learning quickly, and getting s**t done. 
• Confidence initiating and running programs, and comfort asking questions.
• Proven ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel. 
• This is an in-person role location in Stanford, CA; remote work is not available for this position. 

What You’ll Receive 

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $44,000 - $50,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and the salary range is $46,500- $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).