Director of Engagement

Oregon Hillel

Role Overview

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.

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.

What You’ll Do

• Short-Term Outcomes
• Develop and implement a cohesive engagement strategy that strengthens Jewish student connection at both UO and OSU
• Supervise, mentor, and support the UO Engagement Associate and OSU Engagement Associate to ensure consistent, high-quality relationship-based engagement across campuses
• 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
• Long-Term Outcomes
• Grow a sustainable culture of student leadership and peer engagement that expands the reach and impact of Oregon Hillel year over year
• Strengthen Oregon Hillel’s engagement infrastructure, ensuring scalable systems, clear goals, and measurable outcomes across both campuses
• Additional responsibilities include:
• Mentoring student leaders in their Jewish growth through individual meetings, cohort experiences, and leadership training
• 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
• Serving as a thought partner and advisor to student leaders and engagement-focused student groups
• Overseeing engagement-related communications, marketing strategy, and student participation tracking in collaboration with colleagues

On a day to day basis you will

• Coach and support the UO and OSU Engagement Associates through regular supervision, goal-setting, and professional development
• Meet one-on-one with students to build trust, identify interests, and connect them to leadership and engagement opportunities
• Collaborate with colleagues to strengthen outreach, recruitment, and visibility for Jewish life on both campuses
• Support student leadership development through trainings, cohort experiences, and ongoing mentorship
• Strategize around engagement data and trends to continuously refine outreach and impact
• Partner with students and staff to shape and enhance campus-specific engagement initiatives

What You’ve Accomplished

• 4-6 years professional experience  in Jewish, experiential or higher education.
• Bachelor’s degree required; Advanced degree is a plus.
• Proven success:
  • Building Jewish communities that are welcoming, vibrant, and inclusive
  • Inspiring and mentoring college students through relationship-based and experiential engagement
  • Strategically networking and building partnerships with students, professionals, and community stakeholders
  • Managing multiple initiatives simultaneously while maintaining quality and consistency
  • Supervising and developing staff or student leaders

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• A passion for working with emerging adults and investing in their growth as a Jewish leader
• A commitment to diversity and comfort serving as a Jewish role model and mentor
• Supervisory experience and excitement about coaching early-career professionals
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to balance vision with execution
• Comfort working independently and collaboratively across teams and campuses
• An entrepreneurial spirit—you embrace ambiguity and see opportunity in complexity
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage students, parents, alumni, and partners

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $65,000 - $72,000
• 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. Great professional development, mentoring, and skill building opportunities
• Robust professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities
• Travel regionally and abroad, particularly to Israel 
• Plenty of Hillel and university swag

About Oregon Hillel

Since 1993, the Oregon Hillel Foundation has served as the Jewish home away from home for the 1,600+ Jewish students at the University of Oregon, and as of the fall of 2014, our 500+ Jewish students at Oregon State University. Oregon Hillel is a student-centric and data driven team that is committed to thinking big and being proactive to create new and exciting opportunities to invest in our students' ideas and to empower them to activate their community.  

Eugene and Corvallis are truly special places to live:

• Eugene is the 2nd largest city in the state of Oregon with a population of 179,000 while Corvallis has a big-city feel with small-town charm and a population of 69,000.
• Both Eugene and Corvallis are very livable communities, with excellent medical care, top-notch public schools, a variety of youth sports programs from kindergarten through high school, and interesting and diverse neighborhoods in which to live.  
• You will be located in the middle of the Willamette Valley, close to the city of Portland, the Oregon coast, the rivers of the high desert of Bend and the Cascade Mountains. Eugene and Corvallis have several riverfront parks and bike paths, access to local hiking, and its proximity to miles of country roads to bicycle draw many of our residents.  
• Eugene is home to the Oregon Ducks, who field exciting teams in football, baseball, basketball, softball, track and field, and others.  We are known as Track Town USA. Wearing a hat or tee-shirt emblazoned with an Oregon “O” will bring you a “Sco Ducks” from other Duck fans around the world

Oregon 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.