Alum Relations Manager

A Learning Community

Notre Dame High School, San Jose is the center for women’s leadership in Silicon Valley and has provided an exceptional Catholic college preparatory education for young women since 1851. The school's mission is guided by the teachings of Saint Julie Billiart, the foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, with a strong focus on social justice to create lifelong learners, spiritual seekers, justice advocates and community leaders.  Our mission, summarized by the words of Saint Julie Billiart, is to “teach them what they need to know for life.”

Alum Relations Program

Together with the Alum Relations Associate, the Alum Relations Manager cultivates, stewards, solicits, and builds community and relationships with alums to help achieve revenue goals through alum giving.

Alum Giving

• Identifies, cultivates, and stewards a portfolio of major alum donors and prospects to solicit for campaigns and scholarship giving programs.
• Serves as the lead staff liaison to the alum community; focuses on classes of 1980 to present.
• Monitors program performance by conducting regular audits and high-level analysis, and providing an annual performance report on alum giving year-over-year.
• Works with the Executive Director of Advancement to determine strategy to target and increase alum giving.

Alum Community Engagement

• Builds and enhances the alum program to promote engagement through volunteering, attending events, giving, or serving as an ND speaker
• Determines strategy to identify and engage different alum audiences and develops programs for engagement
• Develops and executes a data-driven communications plan to target alum engagement and giving, including but not limited to newsletters, emails, appeals, outreach, and social media.
• Strategizes how to grow the alum network – including, but not limited to, reunions, career programs, events, and volunteer opportunities – to create a pipeline of ambassadors to support Notre Dame’s initiatives.
• Partners with the events team to plan and execute alum events
• Works with the Executive Director of Advancement to drive program efforts up to larger alum engagement strategy

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office as well as comfortable using other office applications such as Google apps and CMS software
• Donor database knowledge
• 2 years of development experience, including fundraising or related experience with a successful record of solicitation
• Proven willingness to fundraise and make direct solicitations and/or requests for financial support
• Demonstrated ability to achieve measurable goals
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with diverse groups of people
• Flexible with a high tolerance for change in a fast-paced environment
• Firm commitment to customer service and stewardship
• Proven experience planning and executing events
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, motivate, and work well with donors, alum, faculty, staff, Board of Directors, and others while developing and maintaining positive and productive relationships
• Ability to handle confidential information and situations with discretion and tact
• High degree of integrity, ethics, and passionate commitment to the mission of Notre Dame High School
• Must be willing to work some weekends and evenings

Desired Knowledge and Abilities:

• Familiarity with fundraising in an education environment
• Excellent planning and organizational experience with the ability to anticipate tasks, set priorities, meet deadlines, and function smoothly under pressure with shifting and often competing priorities simultaneously
• High level of ability in reasoning, analyzing, prioritizing, conceptualizing, making judgments, and solving problems
• Experience with community relations and event planning

Hours: Generally, 8am - 5pm with some nights and weekends