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

About the role

You will build and sustain the word-of-mouth engine that drives Alpha’s growth across an entire region. This means orchestrating dinners, cultivating parent ambassadors, connecting with city leaders, and opening doors so every 14-year-old can take on their first meaningful project. Your work spans four distinct settings each week: designing the region’s event calendar (from 150-person open houses to eight-person dinners), identifying and pairing current parents with prospective families, cultivating relationships with executives and officials to secure venues and student opportunities, and delivering Alpha Networks—curated introductions, masterclasses, internships, and alumni integration—tracked meticulously family by family. There is no manual; you will create the systems as you execute them, and your frameworks will be adopted by colleagues in other cities. As the region grows, the challenge intensifies: the number of doors opened per family must increase even as total enrollment grows. Success is measured by the proportion of growth driven by personal endorsements, evaluated across years rather than quarters.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute the regional event calendar: open houses, curated dinners organized by city and grade level, and family retreats, multiple times per month within budget
• Identify and secure venues, hosts, and vendors, and serve as the live host during events
• Identify and recruit current parents to serve as ambassadors, arm them with authentic testimonials, and pair them with prospective families and tour participants
• Establish relationships with public officials and business leaders, converting those connections into event venues, support for campus launches, and opportunities for students
• Facilitate parent circles for enrolled families and arrange mentorships, masterclasses, and real-world internships for students, while onboarding graduating families into the alumni network within 30 days
• Record every event, introduction, and initial contact attribution in the CRM to ensure "doors opened per family" is an accurate metric

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Purchasing growth: no paid advertising, ad budgets, or targets based on impressions or lead volume
• Managing the brand narrative or top-level campaigns (handled by Marketing)
• Handling admissions logistics, conducting tours, or managing enrollment documentation (owned by Admissions and Family Success)
• Operating a campus on a day-to-day basis or managing the physical facility
• Treating raw attendance and headcount as the ultimate outcome
• Waiting for a complete playbook, template, or additional staff before taking action

Requirements

• 5+ years developing communities or relationship-driven programs in K-12 education, membership organizations, or similar network businesses, where growth originated from people: referrals, members, congregations, chapters, alumni, or a client portfolio, with quantifiable results
• Personally designed and executed 20+ events spanning the full spectrum, from small curated dinners to open events with 100+ attendees, with budget responsibility
• Established and sustained relationships with public officials or business executives that generated concrete, identifiable value
• Consistent CRM user; documenting relationships, attributions, and activities is an established practice
• Currently resides in, or willing to relocate to, one of these regions: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Greenwich (CT), Miami, Atlanta, Boston, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Dorado (PR), Nashville, or Park City (UT)
• Authorized to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Qualifications

• Led regional growth, community development, or partnerships for a network-oriented organization: a school system, membership club, franchise, or faith-based or civic institution
• Developed and monetized a high-trust relationship portfolio as a client-facing principal in wealth management, consulting, or business development
• Advanced through roles in admissions, advancement, community organizing, or hospitality, and consistently served as the public face and host for the institution
• Pre-existing relationships with local government or the business community in your city
• Deep understanding of how families make high-stakes decisions regarding education

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. The team hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school and curriculum leaders, and remote team members for roles with real student impact. Alpha offers six-figure compensation for those ready to help build a radically better school experience, fostering a fast-moving, ambitious, and student-focused culture for builders who want to improve the system.

Schedule

The role requires availability during evenings and weekends to engage with parents, elected officials, and founders, along with frequent local travel.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $400,000 USD per year, with weekly payments.

Benefits

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits. All roles are year-long positions.