The Assistant Director for Young Alumni and Student Engagement oversees the largest portfolio of young alumni leadership prospects on the Young Alumni and Student Philanthropy rolls. In addition, responsibilities for this role include volunteer management as well as event planning and execution.

Job Duties:

• Reports to the Assistant Director for Class Affairs and Reunion.

Fundraising (55%)-

• Conduct solicitations through personal visits, phone calls, emails, and texts of non-reunion young alumni prospects in addition to those celebrating milestone reunions (5th and 10th).
• Steward appropriately and effectively all top young alumni donors.
• Track and analyze the results of the team’s young alumni philanthropic leadership activities.
• In collaboration with the Assistant Director for Class Affairs and Reunion, develop creative strategies to enhance the culture of philanthropy within and toward the University-including retention, activation, and acquisition of (new) leadership donors.
• Partners appropriatly with volunteers and divisional colleagues on various prospect strategies.

Event Management & Engagement (30%)-

• Organize and execute annual leadership giving, donor appreciation, and/or pre-reunion events to increase overall young alumni participation.
• Help to staff OAAPR alumni events including, but not limited to, happy hours, networking events, and alumni panels in addition to relevant student philanthropy events.
• Participate at events such as Alumni Day, Alumni Reunion Weekend, Homecoming, Day of Giving and Pre-Alumni related events, in addition to other special University events.
• Oversee the creation and implementation of the Future Alumni student events and serve as the Advisor for the Pre-Alumni Council Student Organization.

Volunteer Management (15%)-

• Coordinate the recruitment, training, management, and evaluation of volunteers including, but not limited to, event host committees, reunion committees, and/or specific campaigns especially related to the 5th and/or 10th milestone celebrations
• Recruit new young alumni volunteers through visits, emails, and/or event outreach and engagement
• Motivate young alumni volunteers to encourage peer attendance at all Hampton University, OAAPR, and general regional events.

Qualifications:  

Master’s degree or bachelor’s degree and 2-5 years’ experience; or will accept a combination of related education and experience in substitution

Requirements: 

• Demonstrated initiative, independent judgment, and a positive, responsive, service-oriented attitude.
• Excellent critical thinking, interpersonal, communication, time-management and problem-solving skills
• Commitment to diplomacy, tact, and confidentiality when working with individuals on and off campus and responding to Advancement audiences.
• A great degree of flexibility in schedule as weekends may be required due to weekend-planned and scheduled events
• Outstanding organizational skills with the demonstrated ability to manage multiple and competing projects concurrently while adhering to strict deadlines.