IACT Coordinator for Israel Engagement

Brandeis Hillel

Role Overview

Brandeis Hillel is seeking a full-time IACT (Inspired, Active, Committed, Transformed) Coordinator for Israel Engagement. This is an Israel-focused role for someone who runs on high energy, big ideas, and a genuine passion for connecting students to high impact experiences.

This is an ideal position for a candidate with 1-2 years of experience who thrives on relationship-building, loves the work of recruitment and outreach, and knows how to foster a great experience into a lasting community.

You’ll lead Hillel’s Birthright Israel program from beginning to end: recruiting students, staffing trips, and crucially, strengthening students’ connections to Jewish life and community when they return to campus.

Brandeis is a small, academically rigorous university with a close-knit Jewish community of approximately 1,200 students. The work here is relational and intentional, building real relationships with students, understanding what matters to them, and helping them find their place in Jewish life at Brandeis and beyond. With dozens of engaged student leaders, a robust Israel travel program, and a collaborative staff team to support your work, you’ll have real resources and real relationships to work with. We are looking for someone entrepreneurial enough to build, organized enough to execute, and warm enough to make every student feel seen.

What You’ll Do

Birthright and Israel Travel

• Recruit (or lead recruitment) for Birthright Israel each semester, building a pipeline of participants across the Brandeis Jewish community
• Plan, coordinate, and staff Birthright Israel trips, traveling to Israel two times per year
• Manage a team of Israel recruitment interns to extend your reach across campus
• Recruit (or lead recruitment) for other Israel travel opportunities offered throughout the year (including but not limited to Onward and Perspectives)

Follow up and Ongoing Engagement

• Develop personalized follow-up plans with Birthright alumni to strengthen and deepen their connection to Jewish life on campus
• Engage returnees in community service and Jewish learning

Community and Relationship Building

• Build relationships with 250+ students per year, connecting them to relevant opportunities
• Advise Israel-related student affiliate groups and support their programming
• Participate in weekly Shabbat and holiday programming as part of the broader Hillel professional team
• Plan, recruit for, and facilitate Kol Yisrael learning fellowships
• Partner with students and colleagues to take a strategic approach to community-building

What You’ve Accomplished

• 1-2 years professional work experience
• Bachelor’s degree required from a 4-year residential university
• Proven success in planning and leading events; written and oral communication; collaborating with colleagues; managing multiple priorities; implementing plans in order to meet short-term and long-term goals

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• High energy and a genuine, contagious enthusiasm for Israel and Jewish life
• Confidence initiating and implementing programs and building meaningful relationships
• Creative problem-solving and an entrepreneurial mindset
• Ability to meet students where they are and connect with them based on shared interests and curiosity
• An understanding that students relate to Israel in many different ways, and a commitment to engaging them thoughtfully and without a single prescribed lens
• Strong interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, and to multitask effectively
• Previous travel experience in Israel
• A desire to keep developing your own relationship to Judaism and Israel

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit sector: $45,000-$50,000.
• Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plan, life/AD&D/LTD insurances, flexible spending accounts, and generous vacation, sick time, and parental leave.
• Travel to Israel 2-3 times per year
• High-level professional development, mentoring, and skill building through Brandeis Hillel and the broader Hillel International network
• A close, collegial staff team and a network of colleagues across the Hillel movement

About Brandeis Hillel

Brandeis Hillel is home to a diverse, engaged, and enthusiastic Jewish community. During their time at Brandeis, our students forge new friendships, meet dedicated mentors, celebrate the Jewish calendar, engage in service to others, and find inspiration in Jewish texts and traditions. We are home to a variety of student-led special interest groups related to arts, culture, music, identity, education, and everything in between. Brandeis Hillel is an inclusive and welcoming space open to every Jew at Brandeis regardless of background, ability, and experience.

Located just outside Boston in Waltham, MA, Brandeis University is home to a thriving community of Jewish scholars and professionals who enrich student and academic life on campus.

This role operates in a dynamic campus environment that includes a wide range of perspectives on Israel and Jewish life. We are looking for a candidate who can engage students thoughtfully, navigate complex conversations with curiosity and care, and build relationships across difference.

Brandeis 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.