Assistant/Associate Director, Alumni Class & School Engagement

Boston College Introduction

Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.

Job Description

As we embark on Soaring Higher: the Campaign for Boston College, we invite you to join our community. Driven by our mission in ways that advance the university for years to come, priority areas for this $3B comprehensive campaign include Financial Aid, Academics, and Student Life.

Based on a fundamental Jesuit tenet of developing the whole person, University Advancement is large enough to benefit from many campus resources, yet small enough to be agile and creative in supporting all associates. With an average tenure of close to 10 years at Boston College, our 250-person centralized organizational structure offers a variety of roles across fundraising, alumni relations, operations, and communications and engagement. We invest in the professional growth of every staff member through individual and team-based programs. Likewise, we aim to attract the very best, seeking team members who are as ambitious and as committed to our team as we are. We value a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging while actively promoting team members who contribute to the success of University Advancement.

See below the current opportunity to begin (or return to!) your Boston College experience!

Job Description:

The Boston College Alumni Association (BCAA), the largest Catholic alumni organization in the world, serves over 207,000 alumni with a wide array of programs and services including class year events, regional chapter events, affinity events, spiritual events, and community service opportunities.

The Assistant/Associate Director, Alumni Class & School Engagement will play an integral team role by fostering alumni connections to Boston College in support of the University’s mission. Reporting to the Senior Associate Director of Class and School Engagement, the successful candidate is responsible for the management and execution of School and Class-based engagement programming including but not limited to Reunion Weekend, volunteer leadership engagement, alumni outreach, alumni communications, and strategic involvement while establishing effective budgets and timelines for class and school engagement events. This person will effectively manage alumni volunteers, develop and provide meaningful volunteer leadership opportunities through committee engagement work, work in close partnership with Deans, their School based team and respective UA partners, annual events, and other engagements initiatives as assigned.

Working with the Senior Associate Director of Class and School Engagement, the Assistant/Associate Director creates a vision and annual program plan for the alumni constituencies within the assigned school-based engagement areas of focus, and manages the year-round activities and the subcommittees that fall within this portfolio, particularly focused on Reunion Weekend engagement. The Assistant/Associate Director also builds a strategy to execute special small group cultivation events that are focused on deepening the engagement of the defined target audiences and develops new, compelling opportunities that deepen alumni connections to each School as well as other class committees as assigned.

Some travel, evening and weekend work is required.

Title and salary commensurate with relevant experience based on the following titles and hiring ranges:

First Level Assistant Director $57,800 – $72,250

Second Level Assistant Director $63,800 – $79,750

Associate Director $70,500 – $88,150

Requirements

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree.

The First Level Assistant Director requires 1-3 years professional work experience, preferably in alumni relations, volunteer management, fundraising, event planning, or non-profit related experience, preferably at an institution of higher education or non-profit.

The Second Level Assistant Director requires 3-5 years of professional work experience, preferably in alumni relations, volunteer management, fundraising, event planning, or non-profit related experience, preferably at an institution of higher education or non-profit.

This Associate Director requires a minimum of five years of professional work experience, preferably in alumni relations, volunteer management, fundraising, event planning, or non-profit related experience, preferably at an institution of higher education or non-profit. Proven experience recruiting, on-boarding and stewarding volunteers, and proven leadership and organizational skills is preferred at this level, as is prior experience working with volunteers at an institution of higher learning.

All job levels require an ability to provide the detailed planning and budget management necessary to ensure that events and programs are run in a fiscally responsible manner, cost-effective and break-even; an ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines; excellent interpersonal, oral and written skills including public speaking when necessary; an ability to work well with volunteers in a fast-paced environment. Weekend and evening work is required according to the event, meeting, and work schedule of Alumni Relations. Extensive domestic travel and a flexible schedule are required as is public speaking. Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint; and experience with Canva, Zoom and Adobe InDesign is preferred, familiarity with Blackbaud, or other alumni software, is strongly preferred.

Must be a mature team player who is highly motivated and dedicated to the goals of advancing higher education and an ability to identify with the Catholic, Jesuit mission and heritage of Boston College, the world’s largest Catholic Alumni Association.

The office of University Advancement supports the mission of Boston College by promoting a culture of inclusion that values each individual. Our recruiting practices support that commitment to build diverse teams reflecting our community; students, alumni, parents and friends of Boston College.

Closing Statement

Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:

Tuition remission for Employees

Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements

Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Low-Cost Life Insurance

Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans

Paid Holidays Annually

Generous Sick and Vacation Pay

Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook

Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.

Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity .

Boston Colleges Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .