Springboard Fellow at Hillel Ontario (Guelph)

Springboard Fellow

Hillel Guelph - Guelph, Ontario 

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillel Guelph as the Springboard Fellow. You will be a student engager building meaningful relationships, planning and executing campus programs and events, and inspiring students to deepen their connection and commitment to Jewish life.

Hillel Guelph is the go-to hub for Jewish life on campus. With approximately 1,200 Jewish undergraduate students and 100 graduate students, Guelph is a vibrant, inclusive, and tight-knit community. It holds a proud legacy of student leadership, with generations of changemakers shaping Jewish life in creative, meaningful, and sometimes wonderfully unexpected ways. The Fellow partners closely with the Director to dream big and achieve incredible things for Jewish life on campus.

At Hillel Guelph, you’ll (almost always!) wake up excited to spark something meaningful. You’ll help create a Jewish campus community that’s warm, welcoming, bold, and full of life. If you love real conversations, big ideas, and turning student sparks into unforgettable experiences, you’ll feel right at home here. This isn’t your standard desk job — it’s relationship-building, creative dreaming, and empowering students to bring Jewish life to campus in their own authentic way. Your drive and heart are essential to our success. Because of you, students feel seen, valued, and inspired! 

About The Springboard Fellowship

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. 

Trained in Relationship-Based Engagement, Human-Centered Design and other entrepreneurial frameworks, you will be exposed to the most successful initiatives from across the Hillel movement. Fellows will work with students to imagine, create, and refine experiences for Jewish life that dramatically impact student engagement, efficiently and strategically apply and scale successful initiatives from across the movement, and give birth to cutting-edge ideas that have the potential to transform how Hillel and creates inclusive spaces for #AllKindsOfJewish.

We’re looking for people who embrace challenges, take risks, fail, and learn from the past, while maintaining their passion and sense of humor. 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. 

What You’ll Do

GOALS: 

Short term:

1.       Deepen Student Engagement by investing into building relationships with the student community: Conduct 150 1:1 meetings annually with Jewish students (with emphasis on first-years), engage in conversations during events and create drop in opportunities for in-formal communication.
2.       Programming: Provide logistical and programmatic support for tabling, including weekly bagel lunch and about 2-3 addition events per week. Work in collaboration with student leaders, using both educational/cultural perspectives and engagement strategies in planning events.
3.       Social media: work in collaboration with Hillel Ontario team and students' leadership to strength our Social Media engagement.

Long term:

1.       Cultivate positive vibes: Grow a culture of enthusiasm, collaboration, and shared purpose across our student leadership community. Mainly among about 30 student leaders and with other groups leadership like Aepi, SSI, SWU, Chabad (30 students) and addition core audience.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:  

• Meet up with students to build meaningful relationships across different cohorts and campus groups, learning about their interests and connecting them to opportunities that enrich their university experience.
• Mentor and support board members as they plan and execute impactful programs and events.
• Provide logistical guidance and hands-on support, equipping students with the tools and confidence to successfully lead initiatives.
• Actively promote Hillel programs, engage new students, and recruit participants into vibrant Jewish campus life.
• Lead and facilitate a variety of programs and events, including Shabbat dinners, social gatherings, Jewish learning experiences, and cohort-based initiatives.

Who You Are

• You’re A Relationship-Builder: You thrive on meeting new people, understanding their interests, and forging meaningful connections.
• You’re A Collaborative Team Player: You enjoy working collaboratively with a team to solve problems and explore new initiatives.
• You’re A Passionate Learner: You love learning and continuously building up your Jewish knowledge.
• You’re An Innovative Educator: You believe in infusing education into captivating experiences that stimulate the imagination.
• You’re A Facilitator: You thrive in creating spaces for students to converse, share ideas, and explore and develop their own ideas on relevant issues.
• You’re A Recent College Grad: Whatever your degree, you are excited about Jewish life on campus and have experience as a participant and maybe even as an educator in a Jewish educational setting.
• You’re A Creative Thinker: You are constantly reimagining the ordinary, seeking ways to repurpose and improve things.
• You’re A Bold Visionary: Think big and creatively, viewing everything as a possibility and embracing a risk-taking, entrepreneurial spirit.

 ~You’re A Springboard Fellow ~

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• A bachelor’s degree and lived experience as a recent university graduate.
• 0–3 years of professional work experience (including volunteer, academic, and work)
• A creative mindset that thrives on finding solutions and pushing the boundaries of what’s been done before.
• The ability to build authentic, meaningful relationships with students and colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
• A willingness to step outside your comfort zone and try new ideas — even when the outcome isn’t guaranteed.
• Genuine passion and excitement for Jewish life on campus, and a curiosity to continue shaping your own connection to Judaism.
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit — you can take risks, adapt when plans change, and celebrate both wins and lessons learned.
• Confidence in initiating and leading programs, paired with comfort asking questions and seeking guidance when needed.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams inside and outside Hillel.
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism.

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary for this role is $50,000 (CDN)  in year one of the Fellowship, and $52,500  (CDN) in year two of the Fellowship.
• A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, Life, AD&D and Long Term Disability (LTD) insurances, Flexible Spending accounts, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave.
• High-level professional development to help develop core skills in experiential education, including learning from some of the most innovative organizations in Jewish education today. 
• $3,200 in professional development funds from the Springboard Fellowship to utilize over the course of two years.
• 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).