Houston Hillel seeks an engaging and innovative Assistant Director to provide vision and oversight for all three areas of Houston Hillel’s programming: Undergraduates, Jewston, and QJews. This position provides lots of opportunities for personal and professional growth and includes the responsibility to guide Houston Hillel’s presence on campus and in the community.
Houston Hillel welcomes the opportunity to provide mentoring and professional development to applicants whose experience may not include every attribute listed below, but who have the promise, potential and willingness to learn on the job and grow into the position.
Houston Hillel is a multi-campus Hillel Foundation that engages undergraduates primarily at Rice University and the University of Houston, and supports Jewish students at almost a dozen universities in Southeast Texas, some as far as two and one-half hours from Houston.
Jewston is Houston Hillel's community for Jewish twentysomethings - graduate students and young professionals between the ages of 21 and 29. Houston Hillel is one of only a handful of Hillel Foundations with a separately branded program for twentysomethings. In fact, Houston Hillel's professional time and resources are almost evenly split between our work with undergraduates and twentysomethings.
QJews, launched in early 2022, provides an affirming environment for Houston's queer Jews in their twenties and thirties.
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.
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.
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.