Vice President of Community Relations, Alpha

Position: Vice President of Community Relations, Alpha - $400,000/year USD

"the Great Educational Equalizer" — Philosopher Johnathan Bi, on Alpha School

Alpha is hiring.

You already know that community relations work lives or dies on whether the people with the most influence trust you when it matters. In most organizations that trust gets spent refereeing committees and running campaigns that have nothing to do with the actual relationship. There is a version of this job where the product is protected for you, operations is handled centrally, and you spend your week on what you do best: winning over the constituents who matter most, turning them into advocates, and being the voice of authority when the conversation gets hard.

You will own the parent side of Alpha at one campus — Miami, San Francisco, Irvine, Boca Raton, Palm Beach, Tulsa, Lake Travis, Lake Forest, Burlington, Las Vegas, Jackson Hole, San Rafael, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Juan, Chicago, Tampa/St. Petersburg, or Kansas City. Your measure is enrollment and advocacy: prospective ultra-high-net-worth families who convert, current UHNW families who re-enroll, refer, and publicly champion 2 Hour Learning, and a local community where Alpha is top of mind.

Roughly half your week is outward-facing — community partnerships, info sessions, and 1:1 conversations with sophisticated parents who have read every AI skeptic and want to know why the model actually works.

The rest of the seat is the escalation line. When a board family threatens to pull their kids, or a campus quietly softens the model to keep a vocal parent happy—it comes to you. You retain the family, and you keep the model intact. Both. Then you document the precedent so the network can handle it next time without you.

If you have run community relations for an institution with discerning, high-expectation stakeholders, or you have spent a career earning the trust of UHNW families in another industry, and you have been waiting for the job where judgement and persuasion are the actual deliverables, this is it.

What You Will Be Doing

• Building local awareness through partnerships with family offices, private clubs, and independent advisors, plus workshops and community events that generate inbound interest
• Running admissions for wealthy families end to end: info sessions, 1:1 follow-up in the CRM, and the enrollment decision, including telling a family this is not the right school for their child
• Turning enrolled parents into public champions of 2 Hour Learning through advocacy workshops and parent-to-parent networks, so enrolled families become your strongest source of new inquiries
• Resolving the escalations others cannot: diagnosing whether the problem is the model, campus execution, or family fit, engaging the family directly, then writing up the precedent for the rest of the network
• Keeping current families close through regular touchpoints, and reporting the patterns you hear back to leadership

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Running capital campaigns, donor cultivation, major gifts, or any other form of fundraising
• Convening PTAs, School Improvement Councils, parent committees, or focus groups that get a vote on school policy
• Managing facilities, finance, legal, vendors, technology, marketing, or community logistics — centralized teams own all of this, so your week stays on relationships, not operations
• Designing curriculum or coaching instructional staff on pedagogy; the academic model is owned and protected centrally
• Making exceptions or customizations to the educational model to satisfy a parent request, however influential the parent
• Simply logging and responding to complaints, or writing newsletters and routine parent communications
• Defusing conflict by avoiding it — diplomacy here means delivering hard messages, not softening standards
• Working behind…