Springboard Ezra Fellow at Hillel Foundation at Miami University

Springboard Fellow 

Hillel at Miami University 

Role Overview 

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel as the Springboard Fellow at Miami University. You will build one-on-one relationships with students, plan and execute engaging events and programs around campus, and help inspire students to commit to a Jewish life. You will join a dynamic team at an exciting, supportive Hillel that will nurture your growth and development as a professional. 

As the Springboard Fellow, you will build community through intentional conversations and creative experiences. You will have the opportunity to think outside the box to best bring in new students and keep current students engaged in Jewish life. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to reaching students. Still, we know our students want more opportunities to socialize, network professionally, and engage with Jewish life in a customizable way. We want you to be approachable, dynamic, and an engaging personality that understands the Gen-Z college experience. You will also serve as a Jewish young adult role model for our student leaders by sharing your passion, entrepreneurial energy, superb organizational and communication skills, and commitment to Jewish life. 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 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 students' lives. 

What You’ll Do 

Goals

• Map out a plan to strategically build one-on-one relationships with 180 students currently not engaged in Jewish life on campus 
• Mentor student leaders in their Jewish growth through individual meetings and group trainings to cultivate a Jewish community that is caring, diverse, welcoming, and actively inclusive. 
• Coordinate bridge-building work with four other diverse student groups on campus, demonstrating allyship, increasing awareness of antisemitism, and facilitating collaborative events with non-Jewish groups. 

What You'll Do

• Develop one-on-one relationships with Jewish students by meeting them where they live, work and/or study, utilizing radical methods to reach and connect them to Jewish life. 
• Contribute to program development, manage logistics, and collaborate with staff and student leaders to ensure the execution of Shabbat, holiday celebrations, and small to large-scale events. 
• Maintain program attendance records and utilize student engagement data to prioritize, track, and evaluate outreach. 
• Build relationships with other cultural and religious groups on campus through individual coffee chats and participating in their events on campus.
• Participate in weekly supervision meetings, as well as weekly staff meetings, and frequent team check-ins and strategy sessions. 
• Coordinate two pop-up engagement events on campus each month ● Enhance freshmen and transfer student engagement by overseeing the student-led FYSH (First Year Student at Hillel) committee to curate four new and diverse opportunities for freshmen and transfer students to forge meaningful connections with Jewish life and one another throughout the academic year. 
• Mentor VP of Greek Life student leader to develop one-on-one relationships with six untapped fraternities and sororities 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 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 possible and embracing a risk-taking, entrepreneurial spirit. 

~You’re A Springboard Fellow ~ 

What You’ll Bring to the Job 

• 0 -3 years of professional work experience 
• Bachelor's degree 
• This is an in-person role located in Cincinnati, Ohio; 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 and losses 
• Exemplary time management skills, including juggling competing priorities and deadlines and remaining flexible within an ambiguous, fast-paced environment
• Confidence in initiating and running programs and comfort in asking questions 
• A team mindset and desire to collaborate 
• Ability to identify your and students’ interests and find where they intersect to create innovative new programming 
• Strong interpersonal skills, including connecting with a wide range of students.
• Desire to motivate student leaders to engage their peers, deepen their Jewish identities, and think innovatively about program content and marketing
• Owning your unique Jewish knowledge and experiences and inspiring others to be on a Jewish journey 

What You’ll Receive 

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary for this role is $44,000 in year one of the Fellowship and $46,500 in year two. 
• A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, Life, AD&D, and Long Term Disability (LTD) insurance, 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 be utilized over two years. 
• Intensive Jewish summer and year-long learning experiences providing 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).