Director of Community Engagement, Alpha - $400,000/year USD

Responsibilities

• 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

Requirements

• 7+ years leading high-stakes relationships in private or independent K-12 education, fundraising or major gifts, enterprise sales, client success, or private wealth management
• 2+ years working directly and regularly with ultra-high-net-worth or similarly high-expectation families, such as full-pay families at an elite private school, family-office clients, wealth-management clients, or major donors
• Proven ownership of measurable enrollment, retention, advocacy, sales, or client outcomes, including resolving sensitive situations and holding firm standards when influential people push back
• Polished executive communication, consultative judgment, and genuine conviction in Alpha's accelerated learning model, with the confidence to represent it to skeptical parents and public stakeholders
• Living in the Miami, Irvine, Park City, Boca Raton, Palm Beach, Tulsa, Austin, Los Angeles, Burlington (VT), Las Vegas, Jackson Hole, Bay Area, Philadelphia, San Juan, Chicago, Tampa/St. Petersburg, or Kansas City metro area
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship; and available for full-time on-site work, including 2 to 4 evening or weekend events per month

Preferred

• Sitting or recent Head of School — or the Head’s right hand — at a top-tier independent K-12 (NAIS-member or peer tier)
• Multi-campus or multi-site school leadership experience (regional director, network superintendent, COO of a school network)
• A UHNW client-services background translated into school leadership: private wealth management, single-family office, or major-gifts development at an elite prep or Ivy
• An existing network among UHNW families or influential local organizations in Miami, San Francisco, Irvine, Park City, 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
• Crisis communication experience involving press, regulators, or board-level stakeholders
• Hands-on AI building experience — custom GPTs, agents, or vibe-coded internal tools used in a real operating context
• An advanced degree (M.Ed., MBA, or doctorate) — common in this profile, but not required; no formal education is required for this role