Alumni Engagement and Advancement Coordinator
St. Johnsbury Academy
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POSITION DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: Alumni Engagement and Advancement Coordinator
DATE: 2024-2025 FLSA STATUS: Hourly
DEPARTMENT: Advancement REPORTS TO: Director of Development
BASIC FUNCTION: This position is the face of the development/alumni and
marketing/communication
offices when working with constituents of St. Johnsbury Academy and
local organizations. This person
serves as a representative and the liaison between the school and the
St. Johnsbury Academy Alumni
Association, alumni council, the senior class, and young alumni. The
goal is to plan and implement programs
to strategically engage alumni, current students, faculty, and staff,
and further advance the mission of St.
Johnsbury Academy to all constituencies. In addition, this position
coordinates and assists department staff
with alumni/development/marketing/communication functions to provide a
full range of support to annual
and long-range fundraising and development efforts. This position also
has a writing component which
requires detail and collaboration with advancement and school staff,
faculty, alumni, and external
constituents to research, create, and produce material to be used in the
alumni magazine, distributed to local
and social media, used for grant submission purposes, communicated in
acknowledgement letters, and sent to
other public relation outlets as needed. Lastly, this position will
serve as the liaison between the alumni
office and admissions staff, including being trained in all admissions
functions.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The following reflects the administrations
definition of duties and
responsibilities for this job but does not restrict the tasks that may
be assigned. Administration may assign or
reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Establish and maintain meaningful relationships with alumni to advance
the SJA mission and vision
through ongoing cultivation and strategic stewardship.
Responsible for the engagement of young alumni in all facets of alumni
relations programming to foster
their life-long relationship with their alma mater. This includes
working with the senior class and those
classes celebrating their fifth, tenth, fifteenth, and twentieth
reunions. This includes holding individual
class meetings for those classes as needed. In addition, this position
will help in planning and conducting
reunion weekends as a whole for all classes and assist with reunion
giving, including goal setting and
monitoring.
Coordinate and manage programming specifically designed for current
students to foster an
understanding of alumni relations and the life-long relationships
students can develop with their alma
mater, this includes the senior class appeal;
Assist advancement and admissions staff to plan, organize, and manage
alumni and development
events/activities, admissions fairs and events that include alumni
involvement, and other event planning
as needed.
Be a contributing member of the development office, with specific
responsibility for increasing support
from alumni through routinely identifying and qualifying alumni
prospects for gifts, communicating
development-related activities via written contact reports in
fundraising software, and engaging in
prospect management meetings.
With collaboration, oversee the work of the SJA Alumni Council by
arranging its meetings, working to
staff its committees, and ensuring strong relationships between its
members and the academic and
administrative leadership of St. Johnsbury Academy. Serve as ex-officio
executive director of the St.
Johnsbury Academy Alumni Council.
Initiate contact with prospective donors and alumni through face -to-face
engagement, digital outlets, and
telephone/email. Use the alumni spotlight series, alumni magazine, and
social media as avenues to build
relationships. Manage and maintain class notes, obituaries, weddings,
and births for alumni publications.
Serve as an ambassador of the St. Johnsbury Academy Alumni Association
to the internal community by
working with the SJA alumni base to secure professional and volunteer
services for the Academy,
collaborating with faculty and administration to create and maintain
pathways for alumni participation
that advance the goals of the school, and partnering with the
development offi