About the role
<h1>Director of Engagement</h1> <h2>Oregon Hillel</h2> <h2>Role Overview</h2> <p>Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Oregon Hillel as the Director of Engagement. As a senior community builder and strategist, you will inspire students to be partners in creating vibrant, welcoming Jewish communities at both the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. You will drive engagement strategy across two distinct campuses, thinking big while implementing with excellence on a day-to-day basis. This role is unique in its opportunity to shape Jewish student life across a multi-campus Hillel, balancing vision, relationship-building, and staff leadership while ensuring students on both campuses feel deeply connected to Jewish life.</p> <p>At the heart of this role is the mission to cultivate meaningful relationships and pathways that connect Jewish students to community, leadership, and purpose. You will set the strategic direction for engagement at Oregon Hillel, mentor and supervise engagement professionals, and partner with students to ensure Jewish life on campus is inclusive, relevant, and thriving. As Director of Engagement, you are integral to Oregon Hillel’s success—strengthening student connection, growing leadership pipelines, and advancing Hillel’s broader mission to enrich student life across Oregon’s flagship universities.</p> <h2>What You’ll Do</h2> <ul> <li>Short-Term Outcomes</li> <ul> <li>Develop and implement a cohesive engagement strategy that strengthens Jewish student connection at both UO and OSU</li> <li>Supervise, mentor, and support the UO Engagement Associate and OSU Engagement Associate to ensure consistent, high-quality relationship-based engagement across campuses</li> <li>Build and maintain meaningful one-on-one relationships with a broad and diverse range of Jewish students, including those not yet engaged in Jewish life</li> </ul> <li>Long-Term Outcomes</li> <ul> <li>Grow a sustainable culture of student leadership and peer engagement that expands the reach and impact of Oregon Hillel year over year</li> <li>Strengthen Oregon Hillel’s engagement infrastructure, ensuring scalable systems, clear goals, and measurable outcomes across both campuses</li> </ul> <li>Additional responsibilities include:</li> <ul> <li>Mentoring student leaders in their Jewish growth through individual meetings, cohort experiences, and leadership training</li> <li>Partnering with students and staff such to implement a wide range of programs, including Shabbat and holiday celebrations, social and educational programming, and leadership development initiatives</li> <li>Serving as a thought partner and advisor to student leaders and engagement-focused student groups</li> <li>Overseeing engagement