Description:
AGO III/ Director Primary Duties:
- Plan and execute all alumni events, including Alumni Weekend, reunion programming, local and regional networking events, and Alumni Honors, among others.
- Collaborate with and support other groups’ events – such as student organizations, student journals, and specialty programs – where there is an alumni component
- In coordination with the Associate Dean, strategically manage Alumni Board by supporting membership and annual activities, encouraging engagement and leadership, and inspiring philanthropic support.
- Liaise/collaborate with Career Development Office, Office of Communications, Office of Student Affairs, Office of Admission, and Office of Special Events to identify, create and nurture opportunities for meaningful alumni engagement.
- Examples include identifying alumni to serve as volunteers for panels, mentoring, and networking opportunities with students and prospective students and nurturing relationships with alumni to promote hiring at a wide variety of employers
- Implement class agent/alumni ambassador program.
- Lead strategy and implementation for almost all alumni communications, including monthly newsletter, event invitations, alumni website (including Class Action), social media, and individual inquiries. Responsible for drafting content and messaging and collaborating with others on same.
- Lead role in maintaining and utilizing alumni data.
AGO IV / Executive Director Primary Duties:
- All of the primary duties listed above plus:
- Strategically manage Alumni Board by supporting membership and annual activities, encouraging engagement and leadership, and inspiring philanthropic support.
- Develop and implement alumni engagement metrics tools.
- Develop and implement strategies to leverage relationships with alumni to encourage leadership annual and major giving. Maintain small portfolio of prospects, mostly Alumni Board members and other active alumni volunteers, with the goal of cultivating and soliciting leadership annual gifts and entry-level multi-year gifts.
Qualifications
AGO III/ Director Minimum Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree
Experience: Four (4) years of development and/or alumni engagement experience in annual giving, phonathons, alumni engagement, special events, fundraising, or higher education development experience and/or engagement in nonprofit board, bar association or student organization leadership.
Except for qualifications established by law, additional related experience and formal education in which one has gained the knowledge, skills, and abilities required for full performance of the work of the job class may be substituted for the education or experience requirement on a year-for-year basis with 30 undergraduate college credits being equivalent to one year of related experience. In instances where specific education and/or experience is required only directly related education and/or experience may be substituted.