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

About the role

You would own the word-of-mouth engine for an entire region: the dinners, the parent ambassadors, the mayor’s office, the CEO who opens a door for a 14-year-old’s first real project. A normal week puts you in four rooms. You design and host the region’s calendar of gatherings—from a 150-person open house to an eight-seat curated dinner, several a month. You recruit current parents who genuinely want to talk to prospective ones and match them, family to family. You build relationships with city officials and business leaders, turning them into venues, sources of support for new campus openings, and real opportunities for students. And you deliver on the Alpha Networks: introductions, expert masterclasses, internships, alumni welcomes, logged family by family. There is no finished playbook; you write it while running it, and the systems you invent get picked up by peers building the same engine in other cities.

Responsibilities

• Design and run the region’s gathering calendar: open events, curated dinners by city and grade, and family retreats, several a month and on budget
• Secure venues, hosts, and vendors, then host the room live
• Recruit current parents as ambassadors, equip them with true stories, and match them to prospective families and tours
• Open relationships with public officials and business executives, and turn them into venues, campus-opening support, and student opportunities
• Match enrolled families into parent circles and students into mentorships, masterclasses, internships, and welcome graduating families as alumni within 30 days
• Log every gathering, introduction, and first-contact attribution in the CRM so “doors opened per family” is a true number

Requirements

• 5+ years building communities or relationship programs in K–12 education, membership, or a comparable network business, where growth came through people: referrals, members, congregations, chapters, alumni, or a client book, with numbers to show for it
• Has personally designed and run 20+ gatherings across the full range, from intimate curated dinners to 100+ person open events, with budget ownership
• Has opened and maintained relationships with public officials or business executives that produced concrete, nameable value
• Disciplined CRM or relationship-tracking user; logging relationships, first-contact attribution, follow-ups, and actions is already a habit
• Lives in, or would return or relocate to, one of these regions where you already have a deep local relationship network: Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, or New York City
• Available to host on weekday evenings and weekends as a regular rhythm, with local travel
• Authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have

• Ran regional growth, community, or partnerships for a network-shaped organization: a school group, membership club, franchise, or faith or civic institution
• Built and monetized a high-trust book of relationships as a client-facing principal in wealth management, consulting, or business development
• Came up through admissions, advancement, community organizing, or hospitality, and were always the one asked to host and represent the institution
• Existing relationships with local government or the business community in your city
• Fluent in how families make high-stakes education decisions

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

Benefits

Full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions.

Pay

$400,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.