Senior Alumni Officer

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Job

Requisition  Type:

Full time Employee Group:

Staff Job Category:

Advancement and Alumni Engagement

Employment Type:

Permanent Department:

Advancement and External Relations - Volunteer Engagement Hiring Range:$80,248.28 - $Posting Information:

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

Internal Final date to receive applications is Friday September 11th at 11:59 PMThis is a Career Path position. The final level will be determined based on demonstrated skills and experience.

Anticipated hiring ranges:
• USG 10: $85,980 - $107,475
• USG 11: $93,878 - $117,348

Job Description:

Primary Purpose The Senior Alumni Officer is responsible for building and sustaining a scalable alumni engagement ecosystem that connects alumni with each other, current students, and the University. Through strategic leadership of the digital community and institution-wide programming, this role strengthens alumni relationships, increases engagement opportunities, and supports the University's advancement and community-building objectives. This role maximizes the institutional return on investment by driving adoption, participation, and long-term value creation through the digital community which in turn provides a coordinated institutional approach to broad-based alumni engagement, ensuring consistency, reducing duplication, and complementing faculty- and region-specific initiatives.

Using project management, technical expertise and community building skills, this role establishes a scalable and sustainable approach to alumni engagement through mentorship, career development, volunteer engagement, and philanthropic outcomes that strengthens relationships with an increasingly diverse and geographically dispersed alumni community.

The Senior Alumni Officer is a member of the Alumni Relations leadership team. They are responsible for strategy development and oversight, team management, and program evaluation to ensure the success of the campus-wide alumni relations strategy.

The Senior Alumni Officer supports the Office of Advancement’s goals to increase alumni engagement to further impact the Advancement pipeline. They develop the strategy for alumni outreach, alumni volunteerism and overall alumni engagement, focusing on mutually beneficial engagement opportunities that enhance the impact of alumni on the University of Waterloo.

The Senior Alumni Officer will manage projects that require broad campus consultation and collaboration within the Office of Advancement, including all alumni and development professionals across campus, as well as partners across campus such as University Relations, Waterloo International, Co-operative and Experiential Education, Student Success and Registrar’s Offices. The Senior Alumni Officer also works closely with all levels of alumni volunteers world-wide to foster and strengthen relationships with other alumni as well as to the institution.

Alumni Relations programs, activities and events include;
Homecoming, geographic alumni events, chapter and global ambassador-run events, ,digital community, volunteer engagement program, outreach programs, alumni-student bridge programs, athletics events, and all other engagement activities created to deepen and broaden engagement between alumni and the University of Waterloo. The Senior Alumni Officer is…