Alumni Officer (Global Engagement)

About Manchester

Right now, it’s Manchester’s time to shine. We have just launched our first ever major fundraising and volunteering campaign, and we’re building an exceptional team to champion bold thinking rooted in impact. As Alumni Officer (Global Engagement), you’ll play a vital role in connecting our vibrant international alumni community with the University, helping to shape futures and contribute to a better world.

If you have a fearless personality, boundless optimism, and a desire to create a healthier, fairer, and more sustainable world, we’d love you to get in touch.

About the Role

This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic alumni relations function in a global engagement team. You’ll focus on building successful alumni communities overseas, generating warm engagement, and harnessing the willingness of our 550,000-strong alumni network to volunteer and support Manchester’s mission. Your work will include volunteer management, event delivery, communications, and overseas travel.

You’ll manage relationships with an extensive network of international volunteers coordinate alumni programmes that support international applicants, foster a culture of philanthropy, and provide career guidance to students and recent graduates. Collaboration is key: you’ll work closely with teams such as Global Philanthropy, International Student Recruitment, Careers Service, and our International Centres in Shanghai, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

What You’ll Do

• Create high-quality engagement (through communications and events) with alumni communities in strategically important territories, building warmth and willingness to support.
• Coordinate large-scale corporate events and strategic volunteer programmes overseas.
• Mobilise alumni to actively support University philanthropy through fundraising activity.

About You

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Outstanding project and time management skills.
• Proven experience managing events.
• Excellent copy-writing and proofreading skills.
• Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons and all appointments will be made on merit. As we are committed to the principles of the Race Equality Charter Mark, we would particularly welcome applications from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community who are currently under-represented at this level in this area.   

What you’ll get in return

You’ll feel valued as an Alumni Officer (Global Engagement) at The University of Manchester, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits:

• find out more by following this link: www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/people-and-od/benefits/

As an equal opportunity employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status.  All appointments are made on merit.

Our university is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please be aware that due to the number of applications we are unfortunately not able to provide individual feedback on your application.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Markus Karlsson-Jones

Email: Markus.Karlsson-Jones@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.

Type / Role:

Subject Area(s):

Location(s):