Make your mark on Jewish student life by joining Hillels of North Texas as the Director of Jewish Student Life. You will drive Hillel forward on UNT’s campus by thinking big, empowering students, and creating a warm and inclusive environment for Jewish campus life. As you lead people and programs you’ll help every student on campus connect to Jewish life, learning and Israel.
Jewish students at UNT come from varying backgrounds and lived experiences. You understand that being out on campus, staffing Shabbat dinners, and celebrating holidays with our community will enhance your engagement work by helping you meet new faces. You’ll meet students for lunch and coffee to get to know them and hear what’s going on in their lives. In this role you will work both collaboratively and independently to plan innovative and meaningful Jewish programs and develop the future generation of Jewish leaders. This is a student-facing position with an emphasis on being a staff mentor to students in all student programming, communications, and social media efforts.
The Director of Jewish Student Life is a full-time employee who reports to the Executive Director and is an essential partner of the Hillels of North Texas team of two full-time professionals.
Hillel inspires students to develop an enduring understanding that Judaism is relevant and transformative, alive with innovative opportunity, and compels action, leading to a meaningful and connected Jewish life. The University of North Texas Hillel (UNT Hillel) is the premier campus Hillel of Hillels of North Texas, started in 2000. UNT Hillel estimates 400 Jewish students on campus and hosts the majority of programming in the newly built University Union. Without a physical building, UNT Hillel staff and interns meet students where they live, work and/or study to build relationships. The longest running program at UNT Hillel is the annual Israel Fair. Hillels of North Texas also supports Jewish life at University of Texas at Dallas. We are a maturing Hillel with two full-time staff.
As one of the nation’s largest public universities, the University of North Texas is diverse with a robust campus life where students become part of the “Mean Green” family. The University of North Texas is located in Denton, Texas, a college town of 131,000 people and only 36 miles north of Dallas-Fort Worth.
Hillels of North Texas 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.
About Hillel International
In 1923, Rabbi Benjamin Frankel started Hillel with humble means, a noble mission and a breathtaking vision: to convey Jewish civilization to a new generation. Today, Hillel International continues to enrich the lives of Jewish students and is the largest Jewish campus organization in the world at more than 550 colleges and universities across North America and around the world. As Hillel evolves as an organization, the mission remains steadfast: to create lasting connections with every Jewish student that foster an enduring commitment to Jewish life, learning, and Israel and train them to become the next Jewish leaders.
Hillel is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an accepting and inclusive environment for all.