University of Oregon (UO) Engagement Associate

Oregon Hillel

Role Overview

Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Oregon Hillel as the University of Oregon Engagement Associate. You will build one on one relationships with students at UO, put on awesome events around campus, and help inspire students to make a commitment to Jewish life. At UO, Jewish life is relationship-driven, student-led, and deeply connected to the broader Eugene community, giving you the opportunity to shape a vibrant campus culture where students truly feel known, supported, and empowered.

At the heart of this role is the mission to build meaningful relationships that draw Jewish students into community and help them see Jewish life as relevant, joyful, and essential to their college experience. You will spend your time meeting students where they are, cultivating leadership, and creating pathways for engagement that reflect students’ diverse identities and interests. As the Engagement Associate, you play a critical role in Oregon Hillel’s success by serving as a trusted connector and catalyst—ensuring Jewish student life at UO is dynamic, inclusive, and growing. You’ll wake up each day (or at least most) genuinely excited to create an inviting space that inspires students to explore, experience, and create vibrant Jewish lives. This is so much more than your average 9-to-5.

What You’ll Do

• Actively contribute to shaping Oregon Hillel by engaging 300-400 students per year
• Collaborate with students, student interns, and colleagues to develop programs and manage existing programs
• Meet with students from different cohorts and demographics on campus to engage them, identify their interests and connect to opportunities
• Meet with students to help connect them with leadership roles in Hillel
• Map out a plan to strategically build one on one relationships with 180 students currently not engaged in Jewish life
• Plan and facilitate weekly student intern meetings
• Recruit and supervise student interns who are responsible for engaging their peers in Jewish life on campus

What You’ll Bring to the Job

• 1 -3 years of professional work experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit. Things may not always go according to plan and you must be willing to take risks and learn your wins as well as your losses
• Confidence initiating and running programs, and comfort asking questions
• Ability to collaborate across teams both inside and outside of Hillel
• Belief that our work isn’t done until every Jewish student is connected to Jewish life
• Willingness to admit what you don’t know, and excitement to learn in those areas
• Creative problem-solving
• Excitement to continue developing your own relationship to Judaism

What You’ll Receive

• Competitive salary in the nonprofit marketplace. The salary range for this role is $50,000 - $55,000
• 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
• Travel regionally and abroad, particularly to Israel
• This role is supervised by the Director of Engagement

About Oregon Hillel and Eugene, OR

Located in the heart of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon Hillel is the center of Jewish student life at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, with our Hillel House based in Eugene. Oregon Hillel is a student-centric organization that is focused on building relationships with students in an open and accepting diverse environment. We create a culture of equality, transparency, and respect that empowers students to incubate and actualize their ideas and interests, expand and diversify their social networks, access valuable opportunities for professional growth and build the Jewish community that is relevant and exciting to their personal development.

Eugene is truly a special place to live:

• Eugene is the 2nd largest city in the state of Oregon with a population of 179,000.
• Eugene offers a very livable community, 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 has 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.