Philip remarks that he wants to define the Hecke operator as an endomorphism of the Jacobian of "any Riemann surface $X$ such that the endomorphism ring is defined over $mathbf{Q}$", and at the same time he wants the Hecke operator to reduce to ${rm Frob}_p + p{rm Frob}_p^{-1}$. I think that for a generic Riemann surface $X$, the endomorphism ring is $mathbf{Z}$. However, ${rm Frob}_p + {rm Ver}_p$ is very unlikely to be an integer, so for a general $X$ it is highly unlikely that there exists an element of ${rm End}(X)$ that lifts ${rm Frob}_p + {rm Ver}_p$. (I'm using ${rm Ver}_p$ to denote the dual of Frobenius.)
Here is another closely related point. When $A$ is an abelian variety with good reduction at a prime $p$, there is a natural map ${rm End}(A) to {rm End}(A_{{mathbf F}_p})$. (See my remark here). I think this map is injective (consider the induced map on Tate modules at some good prime $ell$). Thus you could define the Hecke operator $T_p$ to be the unique (if it exists!) lift of ${rm Frob}_p + {rm Ver}_p$. That's intrinsic and makes no reference to any moduli space.
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