Director of Student Engagement at Boston University Hillel

The role

The Director of Student Engagement will design and implement a strategic undergraduate engagement plan for 4,000 Jewish students. This role involves managing outreach, mentoring student leaders, leading travel trips, and teaching Jewish learning seminars.

What you will do

• Serve as architect and practitioner of a strategic undergraduate engagement plan
• Manage Hillel’s marketing and outreach to undergraduate colleges and residence halls
• Conduct daily 1x1 initial and follow-up meetings with students
• Strengthen and support student leadership cohorts
• Mentor students on passion projects
• Manage and analyze the CRM Database
• Develop, lead, and recruit Jewish learning fellowship classes and experience groups
• Co-lead immersive travel trips to Israel or international destinations
• Teach and facilitate Jewish learning through an undergraduate student lens
• Support the Hillel team during Shabbat, holidays, and nights or weekends

Required qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Significant computer skills, including Microsoft Office, Google Docs, CRM, and social media
• Must be willing to work nights and occasional weekends
• Requires discretion and independent judgement

Nice to have

• master's or advanced degree (could be rabbinic, Jewish education, business, social work, or other relevant fields)
• backgrounds in PR, Communications, Marketing, Communal Engagement, For Profit Business, Customer Service
• Significant Jewish communal life experience in Hillel, Jewish nonprofit, Jewish camping, Jewish education, or Rabbinic leadership
• Significant experience with relationship-based work in student engagement, community partnerships, nonprofit management, corporate social responsibility, or arts management
• Significant experience in for-profit environments alongside a very strong Jewish lay leadership background

Benefits

• High-level professional development
• Mentoring and career coaching
• Network of colleagues from across the Hillel movement
• Travel opportunities, both domestically and internationally, multiple times per year
• Health insurance
• Tax Deferred Retirement Plan
• Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability insurances
• Flexible Spending Plan
• Generous vacation/sick time
• Parental leave

About the company

Boston University Hillel is located in Boston and serves 4,000 Jewish undergraduates and 2,000 Jewish graduate students. Its mission is to inspire, educate, and empower BU students to lead meaningful and joyous Jewish lives.