Alumni Relations Senior Specialist

Overview

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial and collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realize their greatest potential, all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Alumni Relations Team in our London office as a Senior Specialist:
Alumni Relations.

The Role:

The Senior Specialist:
Alumni Relations plays a key role in growing and strengthening the firm's global alumni community.

Working closely with the Assistant Director:
Global Alumni Relations, the role is responsible for delivering alumni engagement initiatives, communications, events, relationship management activities, and database administration that support the firm's strategic objectives.

The successful candidate will help create meaningful connections between the firm and its alumni, while supporting the development of a vibrant global network that generates value through recruitment, business development, brand advocacy, knowledge sharing, and professional connections.

Hours:

Standard hours are 9:30am to 5:30pm with flexibility in accordance with the needs of the business.

Our current working from home policy allows for two days working from home, subject to business need.

This policy is subject to change and does not form part of contractual terms.

Alumni Relations

• Support the execution of the firm's global alumni strategy and annual engagement plan.
• Manage day-to-day communications and interactions with alumni.
• Build and maintain relationships with alumni across key geographies, practices, industries, and career stages.
• Assist in identifying and engaging high-priority alumni for strategic initiatives, publications, events, and networking opportunities.
• Respond to alumni enquiries and act as a key point of contact for members of the Alumni Network.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the overall alumni experience and increase alumni participation and community engagement.

Alumni Communications

• Develop and coordinate alumni communications, including newsletters, email campaigns, website content, social media content, and promotional materials.
• Work with internal stakeholders to source relevant news, updates, and opportunities for alumni audiences.
• Ensure communications are targeted, relevant, and aligned with engagement objectives. Segmented communications and engagement journeys are a core objective of the alumni program.
• Monitor communications and social media performance, analyse engagement data, and recommend improvements.

Event Management

• Plan, coordinate and execute virtual and in-person alumni events globally, including reunions, networking receptions, webinars, panel discussions, and educational programs.
• Manage event logistics, speaker coordination, invitations, registrations, communications, and post-event follow-up.
• Work with internal stakeholders to promote firm-wide events to alumni where appropriate.
• Track attendance, engagement metrics, and participant feedback.

Alumni Benefits and Programs

• Promote and administer alumni benefits, including networking opportunities, educational resources, mentoring initiatives, referrals, job board activities, and professional development offerings.
• Support initiatives that facilitate alumni-to-alumni and alumni-to-firm connections.

Administration and Database Management

• Maintain accurate alumni data within the firm's CRM and alumni platform.
• Support data cleansing, segmentation, profiling, reporting, and analysis activities.
• Manage alumni onboarding and invitation processes.
• Maintain the Alumni Job Board.

Internal Collaboration

• Support alumni-related research, introductions, referrals, and business development opportunities.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to…