Alum Director

Job no: R-

Position Title: Alum Experience Director

Faculty or Staff: Staff

Full Time or Part Time: Full time

In-Person, Hybrid, or Remote: In-Person

Minimum Starting Rate of Pay: $98,225.00

Rate of pay commensurate with experience

Start Date: 12/07/2026

The Alum Association of Mount Holyoke College is an alum-led organization that uplifts Mount Holyoke alums and builds community that fosters lifelong learning and empowers impactful connections amongst alums and with the College. Within Mount Holyoke, staff ofthe Association operate as the Alum Relations Office in the President’s Division.

This vital role leads and executes signature experiences to grow participation across Mount Holyoke’s diverse, global community of40,000 alums. The Director heads the Alum Association’s Alum Experience pillar, responsible for delivering exceptional, shared alum engagements. This individual holds ownership for signature events, including Reunion, the Volunteer Leadership Summit and aselect portfolio of regional programs. Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director serves on the Association’s Leadership Team,integrating the experiential strategy across other Association pillars and campus units.

This role directly supervises professional staff and student teams, driving measurable outcomes in conversion to all forms of alum engagement, including philanthropy, in full alignment with the Association’s priorities and the MHC Forward strategic plan.

• Develop, champion, and articulate the multi-year strategic action plan for all experiential alum engagement, ensuring programs are innovative, globally inclusive and align with institutional priorities.
• Serve as the strategic owner of Mount Holyoke’s annual
  
  Reunion(s), leading the cross-functional team, defining the programmatic structure, managing the budget and regularly evaluating the quality and outcomes, elevating its impact as ahigh-profile, signature event.
• Oversee the development and implementation of creative,compelling programs that foster connection and a sense of belonging among students, recent alums, and under-engaged constituents, witha focus on intergenerational initiatives that leverage class and regional structure as well as career and affinity connections.
• Ensure that all program delivery and outcomes consistently embody the Association’s and College’s core commitment to excellence and inclusion.
• Own and manage the entire Experiential Engagement pillar budget, ensuring fiscal responsibility, monitoring cost recovery,and optimizing resources across all programmatic areas.
• Regularly collect, analyze, and use data to guide programmatic decisions, assess effectiveness, and present key performance indicators (KPIs) and post-event analysis to the Association’sleadership team.

• Supervise, mentor, and evaluate a lean professional staff team(including the Assistant Director and Coordinator for Experiential Engagement), fostering a culture of excellence in execution and service while ensuring effective workload distribution across theteam. The Director is expected to carry a significant portion ofthe pillar's execution workload alongside the team.
• Set and maintain the pillar’s overall programmatic calendar,ensuring strategic sequencing and avoiding capacity conflicts with institutional partners.
• Manage and mentor student ambassadors and workers, and support the ongoing development of the Reunion Student Ambassadorprogram.
• Lead strategic-level collaboration with key College partners(e.g., Development/Mount Holyoke Fund, Marketing &Communications, Student Life) to ensure all shared experiences reflect a cohesive institutional presence.

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