Responsibilities

• Gather and analyze data on our alumni
• Maintain a database of roughly 400 former middle school students who have moved on since 2018, as well as alumni from earlier years.
• In collaboration with the Foundation Director, the Coordinator will establish a baseline of alumni engagement as well as targets for growth over time.
• Collaborate with the School’s registrar on the unenrollment process, including providing outgoing middle school students with their own email accounts to facilitate long-term communication, and logging their immediate next step.
• Liaise with the most common secondary schools for our alumni
• Maintain relationships with alumni at these schools
• Design and implement regular surveys among alumni and families, measuring student and family satisfaction as well as measuring their sense of preparedness for the next step in their educational path.
• Interact with families of middle school students who are completing their Conservatory Lab careers, assisting them with applications for their preferred post-Conservatory Lab schools
• Leverage the National Student Clearinghouse and the Boston High Education Resource Center to track alumni enrollment in post-secondary education
• Build an Alumni Association and a culture of belonging among our alumni

Requirements

• Strong written, research, and verbal communications skills.
• Strong understanding of social media and some understanding of website maintenance.
• Familiarity with social justice, music and the arts, and K-12 education.
• Familiarity with Dorchester and the surrounding communities of Boston.
• Ability to create or repurpose video content for social media and other outlets.
• Experience working with local media, including writing press releases.
• Experience in graphic design in traditional printing materials as well as branded merchandise.
• Willingness to network in a variety of settings, including with government and corporate officials.
• High energy, positive, can-do attitude, flexibility and teamwork.
• The ability to appropriately deal with competing deadlines and expectations.

Preferred

• An alum of Conservatory Lab or a Boston-area charter school would be a terrific fit, though not required.
• Strong written, research, and verbal communications skills.
• Strong understanding of social media and some understanding of website maintenance.
• Familiarity with social justice, music and the arts, and K-12 education.
• Familiarity with Dorchester and the surrounding communities of Boston.
• Ability to create or repurpose video content for social media and other outlets.
• Experience working with local media, including writing press releases.
• Experience in graphic design in traditional printing materials as well as branded merchandise.
• Willingness to network in a variety of settings, including with government and corporate officials.
• High energy, positive, can-do attitude, flexibility and teamwork.

Benefits

• The Alumni Assistant will receive a salary of $50,000. Benefits include three weeks paid vacation, plus school holidays, including February and April breaks, and a significant winter break; an employer-sponsored health and dental plan; and retirement plan.
• The Foundation has a strong commitment to work / life balance and while there is a required Saturday attendance at the School’s Winter and Spring festivals, and occasional other events throughout the year, working evenings or weekends is rare.