Associate Director, Alumni Community Outreach Network

Job Description:

The Associate Director for the Brown Engagement and Alumni Community Outreach Network (BEACON) is a strategic program leader in the Office of Alumni Relations charged with building a new alumni engagement program, and associated infrastructure, that connects diverse alumni to prospective students with shared geography and/or identities. This program is intended to help enable alumni to serve as a guiding light (beacon) for diverse prospective students through engagement and outreach.

The Associate Director will be empowered to create a new program that helps scale up the University’s abilities to reach diverse high school students and deepen the pool of highly qualified applicants from historically underrepresented backgrounds. The new program will leverage peer-to-peer leadership in the alumni community to help support scale. This is a unique opportunity to create a meaningful difference in understanding of Brown amongst high school students from historically underrepresented backgrounds, while also empowering an alumni community that cares deeply about the diversity and resiliency of the Brown community.

The Associate Director will report to the Vice President for Alumni Relations with a dotted line to the Senior Director for Alumni Belonging. This position will sit in the Office of Alumni Relations, and collaborate closely with the Associate Director of College Access Programs in the Office of Admission. 

While this team is based in Providence, due to the unique nature of this work and the skills sought, the role is open to any location in the U.S. Any candidate outside of Providence who is hired will be expected to travel to campus as needed, and quarterly at a minimum.

This is a fixed three-year term position.

Brown University is committed to advancing diversity, inclusion, and equity and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required. 

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in successfully training and mobilizing volunteers in support of an institutional objective (i.e. community organizing, political organizing, nonprofit volunteer engagement, faith-based organizing, etc.).

• Demonstrated success in building and managing peer-organizing models.

• Ability to strategically deploy technology to support constituent engagement and volunteerism.

Required Qualifications

• Experience developing programs and initiatives that respond to the needs of a diverse university population of historically underrepresented groups.

• Demonstrated attention to detail, professional, customer-service oriented and positive attitude.

• Superior organizational and planning skills with the ability to initiate, collaborate, implement, monitor, and evaluate and analyze programs and services.

• Proficiency with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Google suite of tools, experience with web and email technology, experience using databases, and ability to learn new technology quickly.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with finesse in interacting with faculty, senior administration, and high-profile alumni.  A strong relationship builder with leadership presence, who is diplomatic and has a talent for successful negotiation.  

• Must be able and willing to travel and work occasional evenings and weekends.

• Must have the ability to remain calm under pressure and during times of extremely high work volume, which is most often a seasonal occurrence

Job Competencies

• Demonstrated commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB), including experience/ability to identify and emphasize diverse perspectives in programming, communications, and strategy.

• Exceptional intrapersonal skills, high emotional intelligence, confidentiality, and ability to manage unpaid volunteers in support of an institutional mission.

• Understanding of successful peer-organizing models, and the infrastructure needed to make them successful and scalable.

• Ability to energize a constituency and inspire action.

• Highly collaborative and able to see how pieces fit together across programs, initiatives, and teams to support larger institutional objectives.

• Self-starter who can take a new ini