Engagement Coordinator

Hillel Foundation of Orange County

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Chapman Hillel in Orange, CA as the Engagement Coordinator. You will be part of Orange County Hillel's umbrella. OC Hillel is a multi-campus Hillel including Chapman, Univ of California, Irvine, Cal State Fullerton, and local community colleges. You will build one on one relationships with students, putting on amazing events around campus, and help inspire students to make a commitment to Jewish life. You will use your stellar communication and active listening skills to develop relationships with students less engaged and help them map a path to create a Jewish story that’s relevant and exciting for them. The position will be excellent in this role if you can’t leave the coffee line without chatting with the person next to you and have an infectious curiosity about the world. In this role, you’ll use data to map areas of campus that are less connected and create strategies to develop new markets. You’ll identify students that have common interests using your ability to network and build coalitions.  You will meet students, university partners, and other stakeholders in the circle as well as on-campus, where you’re likely to run into a few alumni visiting showing their infectious Chapman pride. Our students are awesome (we’re genuinely wowed by them daily).

OC Hillel engages with over 900 Jewish students but could do more to create a vibrant Jewish life on campus. In addition to being part of a top-tier university setting, you’ll join a stellar team of energized staff who focus on excellence, collaboration, professional development, and a thirst for knowledge. As an Engagement Coordinator, you’ll wake up each day, being 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.

What You’ll Do

• Meet with students from different cohorts and demographics on campus to engage them, identify their interests, and connect to opportunities.
• Meet with students to help connect them with leadership roles in Hillel.
• Map out a plan to strategically build one on one relationships with 180 students currently not engaged in Jewish life.
• Collaborate with students and colleagues to develop and manage immersive Israel experiences such as recruitment, staffing, and follow-through.
• Supervise student leaders who are responsible for engaging their peers in Jewish life on campus.

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• 0 -2 years’ professional work experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Fun, energetic, excited to be on a college campus, ready to make new friends
• Strong leadership skills; detail-oriented, people skills, self-starter
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit. Things may not always go according to plan and you must be willing to take risks and learn from your wins as well as your losses
• Confidence in initiating and running programs, and comfort in asking questions
• Strong sense of urgency to get projects and assignments done timely
• Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel
• Be able to work with a variety of personalities and student needs
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas
• Creative problem-solving
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the non-profit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $45,000 - $50,000.
• A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, Group Supplemental Retirement Annuity (GSRA), pension plan, life insurance, Long Term Disability (LTD), Flexible Spending Plan, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave
• Great professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities
• Travel regionally and abroad, particularly to Israel
• Supervised by the executive director and work in collaboration with the senior Jewish educator and Jewish Agency Israel Fellow.

About Orange County Hillel

Orange County Hillel empowers students to become the next generation of Jewish leaders as they nurture and strengthen their Jewish identity, connection to the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Hillel cultivates the potential within our students to live a meaningful and productive life guided by Jewish values and wisdom. As the Engagement Coordinator, you will strengthen Hillel's ability to meet the needs of Jewish students and create vibrant Jewish life on campus. You'll also join a stellar team of energized staff who focus on excellence, collaboration, professional development, and a thirst for knowledge. Orange County has an accessible and engaged Jewish community that supports a Jewish day school, JCC, Jewish Home, multiple Reform temples, a Conservative synagogue, and an Orthodox synagogue. There is plenty of kosher food in the area as well as a trip to LA. In Orange County, you'll enjoy all sunshine year around.