Springboard Innovation Fellow Job Description

What we’re about:

Houston Hillel includes three components. 

• Houston Hillel fosters Jewish Life on College Campuses in Southeast Texas.

• Jewston is Houston Hillel’s Community for Jewish Twentysomethings.

• QJews provides a celebratory space for Houston's Queer Jews in their Twenties and Thirties.

Houston Hillel is a multi-campus Hillel Foundation. We maintain autonomous student boards and a presence on campus at our primary campuses (Rice University, University of Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, UT McGovern Medical School, South Texas College of Law Houston, University of Houston Law Center), while students from campuses with smaller Jewish populations participate in our citywide events.

You'll spend most of your time with undergraduate students at Rice University and the University of Houston and engage students at a few other schools with very small Jewish populations.

Our primary facility, the Ida and William Zinn Building, acts as both a student center and a community resource. We also operate the UH Hillel Student Lounge in the A.D. Bruce Religion Center on the University of Houston campus. We engage Jewish twentysomethings (ages 21-29) through Jewston, which means there's a fabulous Jewish community to meet outside of work.

Everyone is welcome at Houston Hillel. Virtually all of our events are free, and we never ask students to rsvp. We are the only inclusive, egalitarian, and pluralistic Jewish organization in Houston.

Houston 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.

Beyond the Springboard Innovation Fellow job description, you'll benefit from the following at Houston Hillel.

• Houston’s dynamic twentysomething Jewish community. Check out Jewston!

• Free lunches just about every day of the week.

• Living in Houston, the most racially and ethnically diverse city in America.

• Houston's affordable housing market and low cost of living.

• A Remote Work Stipend.

• Holidays – Houston Hillel is closed from Christmas Day through New Year’s Day, and it's unlikely that you'll have to work during this period. We’re also closed every April 25 for Houston Hillel Day, really.

• Mileage Reimbursement at the IRS rate for trips taken outside of central Houston during the course of your workday.

• Access to Houston Hillel’s fund solely dedicated to providing financial travel support for employees seeking abortion access that is not available locally.

• High Holy Day Sermon  – If you desire, you have the opportunity to deliver the sermon at one of Houston Hillel’s High Holy Day services. Kenny will work with you as you craft your sermon and learn various delivery techniques.