Springboard Fellow at University of Michigan Hillel

Springboard Fellow Michigan Hillel Role Overview Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Michigan 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. Michigan Hillel is a national leader in nurturing empowered leadership among students who have a profound impact not only on campus life but on the broader Jewish community as well.

Most importantly, our student leaders feel a strong sense of ownership, empowerment, and accomplishment. In this role, you will be a crucial member of our staff through your work with Freshmen Engagement. The Community Engagement Associate is responsible for inspiring, advising, supporting, and growing specific Hillel communities, including Fraternity and Sorority Life and other niche communities on campus.

They will encourage student community connectors to explore their own Jewish identity while offering their peers meaningful ways to engage in Jewish life and connect with the Jewish community. You will be a proactive member of our large program team, with involvement in all community-wide programming for our campus, including Shabbat and Jewish Holidays, and large-scale social programs. 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 on 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 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: Oversee the experience of Jewish students in Greek Life through our Community Engagement Fellowship, supporting them to create meaningful Jewish experiences in their fraternity or sorority houses. Personally engage 200+ students through 1:1 conversations to help connect and guide them to participate in Jewish community on campus. Identify and cultivate students to become leaders in Hillel, being there for them while they discover their own interests, and connecting them to other staff and groups based on their passions, then nurturing their leadership skills.

: Build a minimum of 200 relationships with students on campus, focusing specifically on students in Greek life who are uninvolved with Michigan Hillel and students who have indicated interest in involvement but need an extra push. Work with the Manager of Community Service Learning on Hillel’s Engagement Fellowships Facilitate, lead, and partner with other staff to develop leadership workshops and Jewish learning for existing communities Advise a variety of student-led groups that focus on pre-professional communities and niche-interest groups Innovate and oversee relevant and engaging Jewish programming to Greek Life houses and our general student population.

Who You Are

You’re a Relationship-