Senior Associate Director of Alumni Relations & Strategic Engagement

Wheaton is a leading private, coeducational, liberal arts college of 1800 students located in Norton, MA and within easy commuting distance of Boston and Providence.

Posting Number: 0601343

Position Title:

Senior Associate Director of Alumni Relations & Strategic Engagement

FLSA:
Exempt

Job Type: Full-Time

Staff Term: 12 Months

Staff Work Schedule (hours/dates): 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Academic Year Schedule (dates):

Faculty Term:

Position Type:
Staff

Department:
Alumnae/I Relations

The Senior Associate Director of Alumni Engagement serves as a key member of the Alumni Relations & Strategic Engagement team and is responsible for developing and executing meaningful alumni experiences that strengthen alumni connections to Wheaton and to one another. The Senior Associate Director provides leadership for Wheaton’s signature alumni programs and volunteer engagement efforts, with a focus on creating high-quality experiences, cultivating relationships, and developing pathways that move alumni toward deeper and more sustained involvement with the College.

This role leads major on-campus alumni experiences, including Reunion and Homecoming, while building and strengthening volunteer structures that extend Wheaton’s reach and foster ongoing alumni involvement. Working collaboratively across Advancement and with campus partners, the Senior Associate Director ensures that alumni programs and volunteer opportunities support the College’s broader engagement, relationship-building, and philanthropic goals.

• Lead the strategy, planning, development, and execution of Wheaton’s major on-campus alumni experiences, including Reunion,Homecoming, and other high-profile alumni programs and gatherings.
• Develop programs that create meaningful alumni experiences while supporting broader engagement and relationship-building goals.
• Manage all aspects of signature alumni programs, including program development, logistics, volunteer involvement,communications coordination, and evaluation.
• Partner with colleagues across Advancement and the College to integrate institutional priorities, giving opportunities, faculty and student participation, and other strategic engagement opportunities into alumni programming.
• Use participation, engagement, feedback, and other relevant datato evaluate program effectiveness and identify opportunities for continued alumni involvement.
• Identify opportunities to engage alumni beyond individual eventsand strengthen their ongoing connection to Wheaton.

• Develop and strengthen alumni volunteer structures that extend
  
  Wheaton’s reach and create opportunities for sustained alumni involvement.
• Recruit, onboard, support, steward, and retain alumni volunteers,including reunion committees, class officers and ambassadors, eventvolunteers, alumni connectors, and other emerging volunteerroles.
• Build intentional pathways that encourage alumni to move fromparticipation to repeat participation, volunteer leadership, anddeeper engagement with the College.
• Cultivate relationships with alumni volunteers and engagedalumni, identifying interests and opportunities for continued involvement.
• Partner with Individual Giving, Major Gifts, and other
  
  Advancement colleagues to connect alumni engagement and volunteeractivity with broader relationship-building and philanthropic opportunities.
• Develop resources, communications, and engagement opportunities that equip alumni volunteers to serve as effective ambassadors for Wheaton.
• Track volunteer participation and engagement to evaluate effectiveness and identify opportunities for increasedinvolvement.

• Identify opportunities to connect alumni around shared interest sand…