Engagement Associate

MIT Hillel

Role Overview

Join a dynamic team as our Engagement Associate, at an exciting, supportive Hillel that has won a Great Place To Work award. Make your mark on Jewish student life at a stable Hillel with a longstanding Executive Director and staff, who will nurture your growth and development as a professional.

As the Engagement Associate, you will build relationships with students and help inspire them to make a commitment to Jewish life. You will build one-on-one relationships, draw out stories from people and help them make connections between their Jewish identity and their passions. You’ll build community by way of intentional conversations and creative experiences, and you will think and act strategically, both independently and as part of a team. You will serve as a Jewish young adult role model for our students, and they will be drawn to your approachable, dynamic, and engaging personality and outstanding interpersonal skills. Your talent for active listening will empower others to create their own connections to Jewish life that are meaningful to them.

This is a full-time, in-person position that reports to our Director of Engagement. The Engagement Associate is non-exempt; hours will cap at 40 hours/week, and they may be non-traditional, to include some evenings and occasional Sundays.

The ideal candidate is highly motivated, outgoing, and engaging. Every day brings new ways to connect Jewish young adults with opportunities to further their identities and practice active Jewish life.

What You’ll Do

• Develop one-on-one relationships with Jewish students by meeting them where they study and/or live, utilizing creative methods to engage and interest them.
• Develop cohorts of students along affinity groups such as first-year students, LGBTQ+, Greek students, athletes, dorm life, departments, and more.
• Staff major programs, Shabbats, and holidays as a member of the MIT Hillel staff team.
• Recruit for Hillel delegations to conferences and other trips.
• Gather and input engagement data into our database program on a regular basis.
• Participate in weekly supervision meetings, as well as weekly staff meetings, and frequent team check-ins and strategy sessions

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Reaching currently untapped and underserved populations of Jewish students on campus.
• Supporting student-initiated programs and events as well as creating and facilitating your own.
• Utilizing student engagement data to prioritize, track, and evaluate outreach.
• Serving as a Jewish resource to students and groups on campus.
• Representing Hillel on campus with students.

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• Bachelor’s degree
• 0-2 years’ professional work experience
• Ability to connect to students -- no matter how quiet or loud they are, what their Jewish knowledge is, what their political stances, and what they think they know about Hillel.
• Patience, excellent listening skills, problem solving skills, and a strong entrepreneurial spirit.
• Belief that our work isn’t done until every Jewish student is connected to Jewish life.
• Flexibility, including the ability to work some nights and weekends as needed.
• Desire to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism.
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas.
• Inability to get off an airplane without having made at least one new friend.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary for this role is $44,000-48,000.
• 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.
• Mentoring and career coaching to help you during and after your position
• A network of terrific colleagues from across the Hillel movement.
• An unlimited supply of Hillel swag

About MIT Hillel

MIT Hillel, located on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ensures a vibrant Jewish life at MIT for students and our extended community. The MIT campus, in Cambridge, MA, is part of greater Boston’s large and exciting university community.

Characteristic of the fact that MIT students are not afraid to challenge generally accepted ideas, any stereotype of the typical MIT student will not hold up to scrutiny. For example, 50% of MIT undergraduates are involved in Greek life and MIT has the highest percentage of students involved in athletics of any university. One can, however, generalize that MIT students are high energy, entrepreneurial, and bright.

MIT Hillel is affiliated with Hillel International. Hillel International enriches the lives of Jewish students so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world, and envisions a world where every student is inspired to make an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning and Israel.