Director of AI Strategy & Enablement

The role

The Director will lead a movement-wide effort to build AI capability across the Hillel professional network. This leader will redesign workflows, develop ethical guidelines, and build organizational skills to use AI through a concierge model of consultation and training.

What you will do

• Partner with the Organizational Learning team to unlock value from data, research, and evaluation infrastructure.
• Use AI to connect information across student engagement, program outcomes, and operations.
• Provide vision, governance, and direction-setting for AI adoption.
• Serve as an embedded consultant to teams for opportunity identification and workflow redesign.
• Partner with AI enablement leads to transfer capability to teams.
• Build a peer-to-peer network for sharing successful AI approaches.
• Establish practical principles for responsible AI use regarding privacy, bias, and environmental footprint.
• Guide selection and rollout of enterprise-grade AI platforms and technology ecosystems.
• Develop and oversee an enablement strategy including training and implementation support.
• Build AI training modules into existing professional development programs.

Required qualifications

• Significant professional experience (typically 8+ years) in learning and development, change management, organizational development, digital transformation, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrated hands-on fluency with modern AI tools including large language models and enterprise AI platforms.
• A track record of driving technology adoption across an organization.
• Strong facilitation and adult-learning instincts.
• Experience designing and delivering training or enablement for non-technical staff.
• Ability to speak credibly about the ethical, cultural, and environmental dimensions of AI.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to advise and influence senior leadership.
• Sound judgment on data integrity, privacy, and the responsible use of organizational information.

Nice to have

• Passion for Hillel International’s mission.
• Experience in a nonprofit, mission-driven, higher-education, or multi-site/federated organization.
• Familiarity with Claude, Gemini, Google Workspace, Salesforce, and Slack AI.
• Practical experience building AI workflows, prompts, or connectors.
• Familiarity with the current landscape of AI ethics, responsible-AI frameworks, or environmental considerations.
• Data and analytics literacy.
• Prior experience standing up a new program, function, or capability in a growing or evolving organization.
• Connection to or familiarity with Jewish communal life, campus life, or the populations Hillel serves.

Benefits

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace.
• Flexible work hours and location.
• Health insurance
• Retirement plan
• Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Generous vacation and sick time
• Parental leave

Before you apply

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Must be based in the United States.

About the company

Hillel International is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities. Its mission is to create lasting connections with Jewish students to foster commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel.