Executive Director at Brown RISD Hillel

<p><span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);"><strong>Applications submitted through the Hillel International website will NOT be considered. To apply, please&nbsp;send cover letter and resume as one PDF to <a href="mailto:BRHillelED@pbrsearch.com"><span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">BRHillelED@pbrsearch.com</span></a> with title format “Last Name First Name – Letter Resume” and complete the Voluntary Self Identification <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfjntXT-zC-rjsT1xL8WveqDZo4rHwstEIHi698lCh3c8yljg/viewform"><span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);">form</span></a>. This will assist PBR Executive Search in improving hiring practices and ensuring equal opportunities. Participation is voluntary and will not affect your candidacy in any way. </strong></span></p> <p><span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);"><strong>To view this role on the PBR Executive Search website, please click&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);"><a style="color: rgb(224, 62, 45);" href="https://www.pbrsearch.com/wps/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/BRISDH-ED.pdf">here</a></span>.&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <h1>Executive Director</h1> <h2>Brown RISD Hillel</h2> <h2></h2> <h2>Background</h2> <p>Brown RISD Hillel (BRH) is more essential to thriving Jewish life on College Hill than ever before: Jewish faith and community are not only essential to Jewish students at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), but also a force for good at the universities. Jewish texts teach gratitude, patience, personal connection, purpose with humility, and the dignity of the individual. Brown RISD Hillel is a center of gravity on the two campuses and is helping define the fabric of the new Jewish America: it is one of the most exciting and innovative campus Hillels in the United States. It is a place of rich community, deep meaning, intellectual rigor, and spiritual resilience. It brings students together for Shabbat dinner, ensures a daily minyan, provides religious education, sustains Jewish traditions in the arts, and connects students with alumni mentors.</p> <p>BRH works with an exceptionally engaged and curious student community, drawn from the most creative Ivy League university and the foremost art and design college in the country. Our students approach Judaism and the world with intellectual inquiry, imagination, and depth.</p> <p>Close to 1,000 Jewish students (and hundreds of non-Jewish students) walk through the doors of the Hillel building each semester. Jewish students know they can go to the BRH building to be with other Jews, and students of every faith and background can convene at BRH in fellowship. BRH has intimate relationships wi