Springboard Innovation Fellow at Tulane Hillel

Springboard Fellow

Tulane Hillel 

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Tulane 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. 

Tulane Hillel’s core mission is to create a radically inclusive community, develop students’ leadership, and encourage curiosity through our Jewish values. We are an action-oriented community that serves as a training ground for emerging leaders. We use a student-centric model that keeps student voices and needs at the center of our decision-making and event implementation. 

You are passionate about connecting with others in meaningful ways, are an outstanding active listener, and can take students on a journey that helps them build skills in the pursuit of activating their enthusiasm about causes and bringing dynamic events to their peer community. You are adept with and enjoy juggling lots of details, logistics, and personalities all at the same time. You have experience creating spaces that are welcoming, inclusive, and address the needs of a diverse student population. 

Tulane Hillel prioritizes our team members’ growth and professional development. If you are excited to get feedback and grow in big ways, you will find yourself at home here. Everyone says they love feedback until they get some - we want folks who crave that and will respond with growth and effort. 

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.

Finally - let us be clear: Tulane Hillel is a fun, energetic, vibrant community. Working at Tulane Hillel will be a pivot point in your life and career. 

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. 

GOALS:

• Manage a portfolio of 150-200 students and activate them to create 10+ student-led programs per semester. Mentor students in our Tulane Jewish Leader’s cohort to build their skills and help maximize their potential while on campus.
• Utilize design thinking strategies to increase the diversity and range of students involved at Tulane Hillel; build 2+ new meaningful student relationships every two weeks.
• Effectively carry out administrative tasks weekly, such as student contact documentation, tasking via project management software, and information sharing and progress updates with colleagues in weekly meetings. 
• Contribute meaningfully to an incredible organizational culture that is the center of Jewish life at Tulane. 
• Identify professional development goals and take advantage of local, national, and international resources, conferences, and mentorship to grow towards these goals. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Create and lead student outreach and recruitment programming through identification of and engagement with uninvolved student populations and develop programs and events to reach them.
• Strategically identify and recruit students who would be great Hillel student leaders. Mentor students in the Tulane Jewish Leaders (TJL) program to create programs and initiatives that will engage their peers and further the Jewish connections they make on campus. 
• Staff and logistically support programs (Shabbat, High Holidays, Welcome Week events, on-campus outreach, etc.) in cooperation with the engagement staff team. 
• Represent Tulane Hillel on campus with students, faculty, and administration as appropriate, as well as with the wider community. Internalize Tulane and New Orleans culture.
• Serve as an effective Team Member for broad programmatic priorities and operations by being a value add to the staff team by ensuring you are collaborating with colleagues, responding efficiently to assigned tasks, asking for assistance when needed, and stepping up as challenges our students bring and the wider environment present.

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 New Orleans, Louisiana; remote work is not available for this position.
• Emotional intelligence and social interaction skills to be able to meaningfully connect with a broad range of students across many lines of difference.
• Community-organizing skills and exceptional interpersonal, speaking, social media and writing skills. 
• Strong organizational and time management skills are required.
• Passion, energy, innovative spirit, flexibility, a good sense of humor, and primary experience with Jewish life (informal or formal) are all essential. 
• A year or more of full-time, summer, or internship/apprenticeship employment is desirable.
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $44,000 - $46,000 in year one of the Fellowship, and the salary range is $46,500- $48,500 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).