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

About the Role

Alpha School students, on average, experience 2.4 to 2.6 times the academic growth of traditional school students according to Forbes. The families who choose Alpha rarely arrive from an ad—they arrive because another family sat across from them at dinner and said, "This changed my kid." That word-of-mouth engine is the thing you would own 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.

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. As the region grows, the scoreboard gets harder, not easier: doors opened per family has to rise even as enrollment climbs. Success shows up as the share of growth arriving through real people vouching for Alpha, read on a multi-year trend rather than a quarterly report.

This role is on-site in one of the following regions: Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, or New York City. Expect evenings and weekends in rooms full of high-expectation parents, elected officials, and founders, plus regular local travel. You will be the most connected person in your city, and you will spend that on kids.

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

Join the team building school around student growth. Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. 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.

Pay

$400,000 USD/year, paid weekly. Full-time W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits. All roles are year-long positions.