Join Our Team!

Thank you for your interest in joining Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Cornerstone Fellowship 2024 Team! As a member of the team, you will help provide important professional development, educational content, and support to returning camp counselors and senior leadership across the field of Jewish camp! 

About Cornerstone

Returning counselors are the “cornerstones” of their camp. The Cornerstone Fellowship was developed to retain this critical camp staff demographic while also strengthening their skills and abilities to deliver Jewish content for their campers and peers. Over the last 19 years, Cornerstone has served 4,500+ young adults, positively affecting its participants, and in turn, thousands of campers back at their home camps.

The Cornerstone Fellowship includes a 5-day seminar that provides participants with a cutting-edge, Jewish educational experience, skills to bring elements of that experience back home to camp, campus, and to their communities. At the Cornerstone Seminar, 300+ staff members from Jewish camps across North America come together for workshops, song sessions, and campfires; learning from seasoned faculty and from each other. Fellows share the camp “magic” and program ideas among one another, creating their own camp community for the week.

Specifically, Cornerstone aims to:

  1. Provide participants with an outstanding Jewish educational experience, which speaks to the diversity of Jewish life and expression, and embraces a variety of learning styles and access points.
  2. Provide participants with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to perceive themselves as and become active Jewish leaders and educators at camp, on campus and/or in their communities.
  3. Motivate and facilitate Jewish educational enhancement and innovation at camp through the successful development and implementation of camps’ action plans
Application Links

To apply to be a Faculty Educator or Faculty Assistant (FA), click the button below.
Faculty applications are due October 30th at 11:59 pm PT.
Faculty Application

This year Cornerstone is looking to hire new Faculty Educators to provide content on the following topic areas: Disabilities Inclusion, Israel, Sports, and Race, Equity, and Inclusion (REI).

Required Dates

Required dates for Educators, Advisors, and Event Staff Interns: 

  • Faculty Planning Seminar: January 8-11 at Capital Camps & Retreat Center in Waynesboro, PA*
  • Cornerstone Seminar: May 16-23 at Capital Camps & Retreat Center in Waynesboro, PA*
  • Role/project based meetings: additional small group planning meetings may be required for specific faculty positions, or faculty members working on specific projects for the Seminar. These will be outlined in your contract, or scheduled based on availability once the team is assembled.   
Job Descriptions
Faculty Educators

Faculty Educators

Faculty Educators have the opportunity to design and facilitate Cornerstone educational programming, which provides fellows with Jewish knowledge, programming and leadership skills that they can bring directly back to camp and into their lives. Educators facilitate experiential education workshops in their areas of expertise, that are both targeted for an audience of college-aged participants, and that could be adapted for those fellows to facilitate on their own for campers and peers back at camp.   

Educators design three (3) specialty track sessions (a multi session program on the same content area with the same group) and two to three (2-3) elective sessions. Educators also work in small teams to design and implement Cornerstone-wide programs, such as opening/closing seminar programs, evening activities, prayer experiences, song sessions, and more! Educators are expected to provide write-ups of all workshops to be shared with Cornerstone participants.

Educator Required Dates:

  • New Faculty Orientation (Virtual – just for new team members) – December 7, 11-12pm EST
  • All Faculty Orientation (Virtual) – December 7, 12-1:30pm EST
  • January Planning Seminar (In Person @ Capital Camps & Retreat Center) – January 8-11
  • Workshopping Day (Virtual) – February 29, 1-5pm EST
  • CAB Day (Virtual) – April 18
  • May Seminar Faculty Preparation Time & Shabbat Experience (In person @ Capital Camps & Retreat Center) – May 16-18
  • May Seminar (In person @ Capital Camps & Retreat Center) – May 19-23

*The salary for new Educators is $6,500.

Faculty Assistants (FA)

New for Cornerstone 2024! 2-3 early career/aspiring Jewish educators will join our team as Faculty Assistants (FA). Ideal Faculty Assistants are current graduate students, senior undergraduates, or early career educators, who will support and shadow one or more Faculty Educators throughout the Cornerstone process.

As a FA you will be able to…
  • Attend the January Planning and May Seminars in their entirety – learning, planning and growing with some of the best educators in the Jewish non-profit sphere while also getting to impart wisdom on the new generation of Cornerstone Fellows
  • Receive mentoring from a member of the Cornerstone Faculty who focuses on the content area you are currently studying/exploring
  • Facilitate a small piece of your mentor’s specialty track (under the guidance of the Faculty Educator mentor)
  • Co-facilitate elective sessions
  • Support program-wide activities for 400+ participants
  • Earn $2,000 in compensation
Required Dates:
  • New Faculty Orientation (just for new team members) – December 7, 11-12pm EST
  • All Faculty Orientation – December 7, 12-1:30pm EST
  • January Planning Seminar (In Person @ Capital Camps & Retreat Center) – January 8-11
  • 1:1 with FJC Staff – February 2023
  • Workshopping Day – February 29, 1-5pm eastern
  • Planning Day (Virtual) – April 18
  • May Seminar Faculty Preparation Time & Shabbat Experience (In person @ Capital Camps & Retreat Center) – May 16-18
  • May Seminar (In person @ Capital Camps & Retreat Center) – May 19-23


At Foundation for Jewish Camp, we value diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team representative of a variety of backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and skills. We know that the more inclusive we are, the better our work – and our world – will be. We strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.