Repair the World Coordinator, Penn Hillel

Posted by on May 29, 2012

Repair the World Coordinator – University of Pennsylvania (1022)

Posted on: May 10, 2012

A significant piece of Penn’s approach to Jewish life is providing high quality and sustainable models of service, civic engagement and social justice to its students, informed by Jewish values and reflection. In partnership with Repair the World, a national organization dedicated to making service a defining element of Jewish life, learning and leadership, Penn Hillel is working to build a ‘social action movement’ amongst the Jewish community at Penn. Together, Penn Hillel and Repair the World aim to significantly expand the number of Jewish students engaged in meaningful and on-going service at the university, thereby creating positive social change in the world.

Penn Hillel is seeking a Repair the World Coordinator who will assume the role of further embedding the values of service and social justice into Penn Hillel’s culture. Through professional development and training in the methodology of Jewish service-learning (JSL) facilitated by Repair the World, the Repair Coordinator will be eager and able to act as an in-house expert helping Penn Hillel grow into an organization that understands and creates service opportunities that are sophisticated, well designed, and impactful to participants and communities served. Penn Hillel places a primary focus on impact that reaches beyond program attendance; impact is defined as the ways that Jewish experiences/actions, learning, values, and rituals help students to construct a meaningful and successful life. To this end, the Repair Coordinator will serve as both inspiring Jewish educator and community organizer.

Responsibilities Include:
Programmatic
• Collaborate on the development and implementation of a plan to make Jewish Service Learning and social justice work an integral part of the Jewish experience at Penn.
• Develop new and enhance pre-existing JSL initiatives that reach a larger number and wider variety of students in a way that (1) create powerful Jewish experiences for student participants, and (2) are sustainable and have real-life positive impact on the communities in which these students will work.
• Coach and supervise student interns to help them to grow in their Judaism, to develop highly impactful initiatives for their peers and to acquire new leadership and community organizing skills. The Repair Coordinator will work with students groups who manage existing projects and develop new projects.
• Travel on select service and Taglit-Birthright Israel trips.
• Serve as advisor to several student groups, including many volunteer projects and the Holocaust education group.
• Serve as the point-person for all Hillel Alternative Breaks (Penn Hillel typically has 3-5 different trips/year). This includes managing external partnerships and working with staff on cohesive pre- and post-trip experiences for all groups.
• Serve as a JSL educator for a broad range of staff and students, to help frame service in a larger Jewish context.
• Develop relevant curriculum for the social justice experience through Hillel.
• Build meaningful personal relationships with students who are not already involved in Jewish life and/or social justice work.
• Serve as a thought partner and entrepreneurial leader in the social justice realm for Penn Hillel staff.
• Help coordinate the day to day logistics for Hillel’s programmatic offerings.
• Develop and nurture relationships with local community organizations, university personnel and partners in the College House System, Greek community, Civic House, Netter Center for Community Partnerships, Office of Student Life and throughout campus.

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