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

About the Role

Alpha School is hiring a Director of Community Partnerships to own the word-of-mouth engine for an entire region. This role involves designing and hosting gatherings, recruiting parent ambassadors, building relationships with city officials and business leaders, and delivering on the Alpha Networks of introductions, masterclasses, internships, and alumni welcomes. There is no finished playbook; you write it while running it, and the systems you invent get picked up by peers in other cities. Success is measured by the share of growth arriving through real people vouching for Alpha, tracked on a multi-year trend.

What You Will Be Doing

• Designing and running the region's gathering calendar: open events, curated dinners by city and grade, and family retreats, several a month and on budget
• Securing venues, hosts, and vendors, then hosting the room live
• Recruiting current parents as ambassadors, equipping them with true stories, and matching them to prospective families and tours
• Opening relationships with public officials and business executives, and turning them into venues, campus-opening support, and student opportunities
• Matching enrolled families into parent circles and students into mentorships, masterclasses, and real-world internships, and welcoming graduating families as alumni within 30 days
• Logging every gathering, introduction, and first-contact attribution in the CRM so "doors opened per family" is a true number

What You Won't Be Doing

• Pursuing paid growth: no paid media, no ad spend, no impression or lead-volume targets
• Owning the brand story or top-down campaigns; Marketing has that
• Processing admissions, running tours, or chasing enrollment paperwork; Admissions and Family Success have that
• Running a campus day-to-day, or opening the physical building
• Reporting raw attendance and headcount as if a full room were the result
• Waiting for a finished playbook, a template, or support staff before you start

Basic 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 Requirements

• 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. The company hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school and curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. The culture is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused—for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Pay

• $400,000 USD/year
• Weekly payment period