Duke University:

Duke University was created in 1924 through an indenture of trust by James Buchanan Duke. Today, Duke is regarded as one of America’s leading research universities. Located in Durham, North Carolina, Duke is positioned in the heart of the Research Triangle, which is ranked annually as one of the best places in the country to work and live. Duke has more than 15,000 students who study and conduct research in its 10 undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. With about 40,000 employees, Duke is the third largest private employer in North Carolina, and it now has international programs in more than 150 countries.

Scope of Responsibilities:

The Program Coordinator plans, coordinates, and administers programs to engage and support Jewish students. This role works directly with current and potential undergraduate students through one-on-one student engagement and programming, in order to enrich and support Jewish students’ social justice engagement, wellbeing, identities, and “Jewish journey” at Duke. The Program Coordinator works directly with student leaders to help them develop as Jewish leaders, to help them develop, deliver, and assess programs with impact, and to help them strengthen and nurture Duke’s Jewish student community. The Program Coordinator is expected to work collaboratively with key stakeholders and partners within Student Engagement, Student Affairs, Duke University, Hillel International, and local communities. As a part of the Hillel International Springboard Fellow cohort, the Program Coordinator will receive training and professional development specific to engagement with undergraduate Jewish students and community-building, and will be expected to contribute positively to the overall Springboard Fellow cohort. Successful applicants to be approved both by Jewish Life at Duke and Hillel International.

Duties:

Undergraduate Student Engagement (30%)

Make operational and programmatic decisions that have a significant impact on the successful achievement of JLD’s objectives by:

• Meeting one-on-one with individual students and student group leaders, with a goal to meet with 240 unique undergraduate students per year in student engagement meetings. Focus particularly on engaging with students around social justice learning and growth.
• Recording student engagement activity in HEART database; pull reports and analyze trends.
• Actively participating in regular JLD team Engagement meetings; offer ideas and feedback about engagement activity and ways to best engage with students.
• Identifying potential Jewish student leaders for future leadership positions.

Preferences:

Do you have an unrelenting idealism for what the world could be? Imagine a job where you get

to make a meaningful impact on both individuals and the world every day. Become a Social

Justice Specialist as part of the Springboard Fellowship, a project of Hillel International!

The Springboard Fellowship is a paid, two-year fellowship that brings recent college grads with

raw talent, passion, and skills needed to reimagine and redesign Jewish student life to college

campuses across North America.

You’ll receive training from experts in the areas of engagement, social action and community organizing, and learn from Jewish leaders on how to seamlessly weave Judaism into your work as a Hillel engagement professional. Each day you will be charged with empowering students to work together to make change on a local and domestic level guided by Jewish values, texts, and history. You’ll work with students to identify and act on a variety of issue areas important to their campus.

If you’re team-oriented, never give up, and truly believe that you must “be the change you wish to see in the world,” then this is the position for you! .

Extensive Jewish education is not necessary — just an interest in creating a vibrant Jewish community, a commitment to learning, and the desire to make a difference in the lives of students and the world.

Who you are:

• You believe that college students can change the world.

• You are excited about engaging Jewish college students through social justice conversations.

• You have a deep passion for educating and empowering others to organize for issues of

interest to them.

• You love to connect with people from different racial and religious backgrounds, listening

with genuine curiosity to people’s stories and beliefs.

• You see justice as a Jewish cause and are excited to help others see this as well. You thrive

when you are facilitating conversations, recruiting and training volunteers, and creating other

spaces for students to learn and develop their own ideas about issues that matter to them.

• You are a master organizer who loves seeing big projects - such as service trips- through

from recruiting to fundraising to staffing.

• You are comfortable with the idea that social change occurs through multiple modalities,

including volunteering, education, organizing, and Jewish service learning.

• You are a skilled and empathetic communicator. You know how to tailor your message to

your audience, and bring them into conversation about critical issues. This means social

justice language might not be right for your campuses, but change-making ideas will

certainly be a part of daily work and life.

Social Justice Specialist

What you’ll get out of it:

• High-level professional development, including $3,200 in professional development funds,

to help develop core skills in experiential education, including learning from some of the

most innovative organizations in Jewish education today.

• Intensive Jewish summer and year-long learning experiences that will provide you

with the knowledge, passion, and critical tool kit to fuel your work building our Jewish

communities.

• Mentoring and career coaching to help you during and after your Fellowship.

• A network of terrific colleagues from across the Hillel movement.

• Travel opportunities, both domestically and internationally, multiple times per year (if

permitted following COVID-19 safety guidelines).

• A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, Tax Deferred Retirement

Plan, Life, AD&D and Long Term Disability insurances, Flexible Spending Plan, generous

vacation/sick time, and parental leave.

• A minimum base salary of $44,000 in year 1 and $46,500 in year 2

As a Social Justice Fellow, a typical day may include:

• Meeting with a group of students or individual students over coffee or a meal to understand which issues are most important to them and developing a plan of action together.

• Participating in a conversation with the leaders of other on or off-campus religious and

ethnic groups to plan a shared response to a social issue.

• Planning or leading an alternative break program

• Teaching a pre-trip service learning course to prepare students for an alternative break trip.

• Participating in a professional development webinar

• Teaching and facilitating Jewish learning through a social justice lens

• Recruiting for an upcoming service trip or local volunteer experience

• Adding a service, social justice, or Jewish/universal values element to an existing program such as a Shabbat, a lunch and learn, or a holiday activity.

Student Group Advising (20%)

Serve as programmatic leader and mentor for student groups by:

• Advising student leaders and student groups affiliated with Jewish Life at Duke in planning, marketing, budgeting and assessing programs and events. Understand and help students learn Student Leadership policies and guidelines for programming events, including funding and logistics.
• Helping students identify opportunities to infuse Jewish content and social justice education and action into programs and events and direct them to available resources.

Programming (30%)

Develop and coordinate new ideas and concepts for program themes, materials, and resources to supplement, expand, or replace existing programs, specifically, but not limited to, social justice. Budget for, coordinate, and execute programs for a student audience, by:

• Assisting individual students and student groups with programming; understand and follow Student Affairs’ policies with regard to programming and planning events, paying speakers/vendors, and contracting (this role is not responsible for executing contracts, but must understand when a contract is warranted, and must not obligate JLD or Duke University).
• Partnering with the Director of Jewish Life at Duke and the Director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture to re-imagine the keystone Roots to Rights program as a year-long, cohort-based educational and service experience.
• Explore the possibility of planning and executing a new Alternative Spring Break experience for undergraduate student.

Communication/Marketing (10%)

Integrate with JLD’s public relations activities by:

• Creating publicity/marketing related to relevant social justice programs/activities.
• Developing schedules and plans for release of these publicity materials in coordination with other JLD team members, including email newsletters, social media posts, website updates, etc.
• Making posts on JLD social media (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.) and collaborate with other JLD team members re: timing of posts.

Other (10%)

• Attend and represent Jewish Life at Duke at appropriate department, division, university, and Hillel meetings, committees, and programs.
• Replenish student snacks in front-desk / café area as needed.
• Assist with and attend key ritual/holiday events, including Shabbat services and Friday night dinners weekly during the academic year, High Holidays, and Passover, so as best to engage with students. Help with set-up, sign-in, and logistics for these and other events as needed.
• Develop a deep understanding of Hillel International mission, vision, and guidelines, so as to use Hillel best practices to inform your work.

General Qualifications:

• Candidate must have received a bachelor’s degree within the past two years.
• Candidate must have professional (i.e. internship), extracurricular, or volunteer experience.
• Candidate should be passionate and excited about Jewish life and college students, and understand why some students might not want to get involved with Jewish life.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and organization skills.
• Proven ability to work as part of a team in a collaborate work environment.
• Deep facility with social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Work requires analytical, communications and organizational skills generally acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program.

Experience

Work requires one year of experience in program administration or OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE involving academic, instructional or counseling activities to acquire skills necessary to plan, coordinate and implement a variety of program activities and events.

Duke is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.

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