As community needs expand and young adults continue to seek ways to meaningfully serve their communities while simultaneously growing their skill sets, the fellowship has adapted into a professional role which will continue to include hands-on service, Jewish learning, peer-to-peer recruitment, and professional development. Beginning August 1, 2023, fellows’ legal employment status will be changing from stipended volunteers to salaried employees at Repair.

The Repair the World Fellowship is a paid two-year, full time professional  opportunity for emerging professionals who are passionate about mobilizing Jews and their communities to serve. Based in one of eight communities throughout the United States, fellows spend two years as salaried staff at Repair while serving with local partner organizations, learning the ins and outs of working at a non-profit, developing their outreach and event planning skills, facilitating learning, and  building bridges across lines of difference. Fellows will also engage in and facilitate meaningful service learning rooted in Jewish values and text and community outreach programming.

The two year fellowship experience begins August 1, 2023 and concludes July 31, 2025.

The two-year Repair the World Fellowship is uniquely positioned to support professional growth and deep issue-area and Jewish learning while being a salaried Repair the World staff member.

No one day in the fellowship is the same! As a fellow, you will: 

• Mobilize volunteers and build community
• Tackle pressing community needs
• Deepen your Jewish identity
• Engage in professional development and learning

The fellowship is a broad experience where you’ll wear many different hats.. Some of the skills and concepts you’ll gain:

• Volunteer recruitment and organizing 
• Building bridges across lines of difference 
• Facilitating learning on Jewish text and wisdom as well as issue area education through a local lens
• Project management
• Professional skills
• Data management and analysis
• Social media, email marketing, and communications
• Event planning and operations

Each of our communities is its own, unique area of the country and, therefore, the issues fellows address vary community to community. Through Jewish service and learning, fellows may address housing justice, food justice, environmental justice, and more. Repair the World is committed to addressing racial justice in all of its communities as it intersects at the root causes of poverty. All fellows learn about racial justice and other systemic inequities in their communities that furthers their contextual understanding of the service they are doing on a daily basis.

• Fellows will be paid a salary of $45,000-$57,692, based on our cost of living tiers for each location. As employees of Repair, fellows will receive a generous benefits package including health insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, paid time off, and more. Repair covers 100% of full-time employee’s health premiums. In a fellow’s second year of this model, they  will receive a 3% increase and will be eligible for a $1000 bonus upon completion of the fellowship. 
• Economic Access Fund: Repair the World’s Economic Access Fund is intended to provide additional financial support to staff and fellows impacted by injustice and covers immediate economic needs, such as transportation, mental health support, required technology, appropriate clothing, and other unexpected costs. The fund can also provide additional personal and professional support, such as professional development and mentorship.

There will be two fellows per community who are supported by fellowship staff in each location.

The fellowship is a two-year, time-bound position with unique training, professional development, cohort-engagement and responsibilities, and therefore has its own salary band.

Fellows are responsible for finding their own housing. The fellow salary is intended to cover your living expenses, including rent and utilities. As you onboard as a fellow, local Repair the World staff will support you in your search for housing if needed. For more information on a particular community, please contact [email protected].

Fellows may be eligible for income-based repayment plans during the fellowship term. Repair the World can provide a proof of income letter that you may need to request or secure an income-based payment plan for your loans. Please contact your loan servicer directly to inquire  about eligibility and process.