When you join Hillel, it’s like reclaiming the best aspects of the college experience: a dynamic learning environment, stimulating interactions with students and faculty, opportunities to learn and grow, and a community of talented new colleagues.
Off campus, Hillel’s Schusterman International Center provides professionals with an array of opportunities to have their own meaningful Jewish experiences, connect with other Hillel colleagues across the world, and develop skills as a Jewish communal leader and educator.
Hillel continually expands its professional development opportunities. Here are a few to look forward to:
Engagement Institutes: Professionals learn about the big ideas and practical applications of making engagement central in our work at Hillel’s Engagement Institutes. These trainings serve a variety of cohorts including:
• New Professionals
• Campus Entrepreneurs Initiative supervisors and Directors
• Senior Jewish Educators
• Israel Fellows
New Directors Institute: New Hillel directors participate in an intensive orientation each summer. The 2009 New Directors Institute will take place as part of Hillel's Engagement Institute at Ramah Darom.
Professional Staff Conference: Over 500 Hillel professionals gather each December at Hillel’s annual Professional Staff Conference to study, teach, network and celebrate Hillel’s work as a community.
In addition to conferences and institutes, Hillel offers a number of training opportunities to support the growth of professionals throughout the year:
New Director Coaching: New Hillel directors are matched with successful directors and other Hillel professionals to serve as coaches and mentors during their first year and a half as a new director. This program exists to help new directors achieve excellence and success by matching them with a trained coach who is a leader in the field.
Director Next Level Coaching: This program provides mentorship and professional leadership development to directors with 3-plus years of field experience. These directors receive six months of personalized, in-depth coaching delivered by certified executive coaches. The goal of Next Level Coaching is to enable a select group of directors to achieve greater professional and organizational excellence.
Jewish Learning Opportunities: Hillel values Jewish learning not only for students but for its professionals as well. Hillel has partnerships with Pardes Institute and Melitz in Jerusalem as well as Brandeis Collegiate Institute in Los Angeles to offer significant and meaningful Jewish experiences and study opportunities each summer.
ACCELERATE: Hillel’s Executive Training Program: Focused on building future executive leadership from within, the pilot of Accelerate will identify and develop eight to ten high potential professionals over a fifteen month period to prepare them to assume directorships and/or positions of senior leadership within Hillel in the next two years. A rich combination of leadership seminars, mentorship, and individualized learning, Accelerate will provide its participants with the tools to advance within Hillel. For more information and an application, please see below.
ACCELERATE Materials and Application (PDF File)
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In addition to the opportunities above, professional networks of colleagues with similar roles collaborate through listserves, conferences calls and face-to-face meetings on campus visits.