Social Media Engagement Associate at Hillel of San Diego

San Diego, CA (On-site)

$50K/yr – $52K/yrMid LevelFull time

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the end-to-end social strategy for students, donors, and alumni, shaping content across channels, while tracking metrics to push engagement and community impact.

  • Audience-specific programs: drive engagement, attendance, donor stewardship, and awareness.
  • Content engine: produce and manage multi-platform content with live capture and storytelling.
  • Analytics & optimization: monitor performance and refine the strategy based on data and trends.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead the development and execution of a comprehensive social media strategy designed to engage three primary audiences: Current and prospective students; Donors and community supporters; Alumni.
  • Create, produce, and manage high-quality content across Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and emerging platforms.
  • Capture photos, videos, interviews, testimonials, and event highlights that showcase the impact of Hillel's work.
  • Develop audience-specific messaging and campaigns that drive engagement, attendance, donor stewardship and fundraising, and community awareness.
  • Monitor analytics and performance metrics, using data to refine content strategy and maximize reach and engagement.
  • Stay informed about trends in digital marketing, social media, and Gen Z engagement.
  • Alumni & Community Engagement: Support efforts to strengthen alumni relationships and foster lifelong connections to Hillel and Jewish community life.
  • Partner with advancement and leadership teams to create donor-focused content that demonstrates impact and inspires philanthropic support.
  • Help cultivate pathways for students to transition from active participants to alumni and future supporters.
  • Student Engagement & Community Building: Develop meaningful relationships with Jewish students across San Diego campuses and throughout the broader community.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
  • Demonstrated experience creating engaging social media content and managing multiple digital platforms.
  • Strong storytelling, writing, editing, and visual communication skills.
  • Experience with Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, video editing tools, or similar content creation platforms.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and a genuine passion for relationship building.
  • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a team environment.
  • Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify opportunities, experiment, and innovate.
  • Comfort working evenings and occasional weekends.

Preferred

  • Knowledge of Jewish life, culture, and community is preferred but not required.

Benefits

  • A comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance, retirement plan, Life, AD&D, and Long-Term Disability (LTD) insurances, Flexible Spending accounts, generous vacation/sick time, and parental leave.
  • Great professional development, mentoring, and skill-building opportunities
  • Travel regionally and abroad, particularly to Israel
  • Plenty of Hillel swag
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Hillel International

Hillel International is the world's largest and most welcoming Jewish campus organization, serving nearly 200,000 students each year at nearly 1,000 colleges and universities around the world.Consistently ranked an award-winning place to work, Hillel strives to compensate professionals competitively; we offer a comprehensive benefits package, global travel opportunities, unlimited paid coffee dates with students, flexible work hours, a lighter summer schedule, and endless t-shirts, water bottles, and university swag.Interested in learning more? Contact us at jobs@hillel.org.

Founded in 1923
Washington, District of Columbia, USA
715 employees (91 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
101.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$136.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.9%
Direct
48%
Referral
6.2%
Social
1.4%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~715

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
82 (11% of company)
Median Career Experience
10 years
Median Tenure
3.4 years

Funding

Total Funding
$47.7M
Last Raise
$75K
Grant, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2022
    Grant • $75K
  • Jun 2021
    Grant • $11.4M
  • Sep 2019
    Grant • $7M

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