Director, Alumni Engagement for Career Programs and Industry Networks

University Advancement is responsible for leading the university’s constituent engagement and fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of philanthropy throughout the university community, including alumni, students, families, faculty, staff, corporations and foundations, patients and other friends. Our goal is to advance GW’s mission of excellence in education, research, scholarship, and patient care.

The Director, Alumni Engagement for Career Programs and Industry Networks is part of the Alumni Career & Life Design team in the Office of Alumni Relations. The Director, Alumni Engagement for Career Programs and Industry Networks creates the strategy for engaging alumni in industry-based networks and in alumni career and professional development programs. This involves high-touch customer service to some of the university’s top donors and prospects. In addition to collaborating extensively with university advancement and alumni engagement colleagues, this employee serves as a critical alumni voice on university-wide councils and committees.

Responsibilities include:

• Develops and implements strategy and goal setting for in-person and virtual career and professional development programming for alumni. These strategies include, but not limited to, industry and career-specific events, networking events, professional development programs, and other collaborative initiatives.
• Develops and implements a strategy, aligned with university priorities, industry trends and alumni interests, for GW’s alumni industry networks including goal setting, event and program execution, budget allocation, strategic communications, data management, and metrics tracking.
• Identify and steward informal networks of alumni 'champions' at target corporations and organizations creating opportunities for alumni-to-alumni networking, professional mentorship, and the collective elevation of the institution's profile within the corporate sector.
• Manages and engages alumni volunteers for events and programs to include recruitment, training, leadership development, gift solicitation, and overall stewardship. This position will expand the base of alumni volunteers interested in sharing their career and industry expertise and experience.
• Manages, promotes and increases alumni participation in GW’s online networking and engagement programs including GWebinars, LinkedIn and GW Career Connect.
• Plans and executes on-going, measurable marketing strategies and campaigns to increase overall awareness and engagement in alumni career and industry related programs and professional networking initiatives.
• Partners with Student-Alumni Career and Industry Programs, Recent Revs and Generational Alumni Engagement on programs and opportunities to build a pipeline of engaged students and alumni for GW’s career and industry-based programming. Works in collaboration with alumni relations colleagues and school constituent engagement officers on career and industry network related events.
• Conduct in-person and virtual visits with the goal of engaging more alumni in our events, volunteer opportunities and philanthropy.
• Supports office-wide, signature programs such as the annual GW’s Alumni and Family Weekend.

Performs other work-related duties as assigned. The omission of specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning duties that are logically related to the position

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