Alumni Communications Specialist

Alumni Communication Specialist (London) – UK
Job Description

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about communications, social media, content creation and leveraging your skills to engage a global network of professionals worldwide? Will you thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented, multi-cultural, fast-paced environment? If so, we want you on our team.

Job Summary

We are looking for a communications professional to help us in delivering an omni channel communication strategy to engage our network of 30.000 alumni worldwide with their Alma Mater, Hult International Business School. This will entail planning/developing content and calendarizing communication across multiple channels. He/she will also have the opportunity to work in close coordination with colleagues from marketing and a wide variety of stakeholders to create an effective content strategy that identifies synergies between Hult.edu channels and targeted alumni channels.

In addition, the successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring activity and devising metrics to measure impact. This team member will also be encouraged to bring ideas to the table on how to explore new channels (for example tik tok) or formats (video, podcast, etc.) to help engage younger segments of the alumni population.

He/she will be based in London and report into the Head of Alumni Experience & Communities (also based in London) and have a dotted line reporting into Global Director of PR (based in Boston).

Responsibilities

• Oversight and launch of process related to sourcing, delivering and training on Alumni Stories.
• Responsible, but not limited to, managing content for transitioning students to graduates, young alumni, executive segments, events promotion, volunteer engagement (clubs, committees, etc.), lifelong learning, career success stories and others as needed.
• Coordinate targeted campaigns such as Alumni Stories, Fundraising, HultXHult, rankings, amongst others with marketing and other key stakeholders.
• Create messaging strategies and ensures consistent communication to drive engagement across all channels.
• Plan and manage communications with global alumni chapters in close coordination with enrolment colleagues.
• Work collaboratively with Marketing, Enrolment and Campus teams to ensure consistency in communication related to the Alumni Association in brochure, website, newsletter, etc.
• Works with CRM system to manage alumni data and track KPIs.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of work experience in a marketing and/or community engagement role.
• Proven experience in copywriting and editing.
• Expertise in online marketing and social media strategy (LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and others).
• Microsoft office proficiency. Outstanding powerpoint, design and visualization skills.
• Familiarity using Salesforce/Marketing Cloud, Canva, Formstack or similar.

Attributes

• Bachelor/Master’s Degree.
• Team player: Ability to work collaboratively across different teams and departments.
• Strong public speaking skills.
• Very detail orientated.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Understanding of and passion for higher education.

About Us

Hult International Business School is a leading global business school offering a Bachelor’s degree, full-time and part-time Master’s degrees, one year accelerated and part-time Executive MBAs, a Doctoral program and Ashridge Executive Education programs. Hult’s innovative curriculum is taught by inspiring professors who possess real-world business experience. In addition, students gain unrivalled global business perspectives through Hult’s unique Global Campus Rotation – which allows students to study on a combination of Hult’s five campuses in Boston, San Francisco, London and Dubai, as well as Hult’s rotation centres in New York City and Ashridge. With students representing 140 nationalities, Hult is a microcosm of the global economy that rewards those who can conduct business that transcends borders.

At Hult, we believe that education is about so much more than a degree. It is about transformation. Students want skills that will transform their lives. Employers want graduates that will transform their businesses. Society wants businesses that will transform the world. Like all change, it starts with action.

By focusing on what our students can do in the real world, rather than just the theory they study in classrooms, we prioritize those skills and mindsets that are most needed to bring about change—in the careers of the individual, the businesses they work in, and the society we all live in. This belief in the power of learning by doing goes beyond a philosophy; it is the guiding force behind every program we provide, every course we create, every class we run. It is what makes Hult the business school for those made to do. We strive to be the most relevant business school in the world. By using our global reach and always being creative, entrepreneurial, and on the cutting edge, our aim is to have a positive impact on individuals and organizations by transforming their management practices. In so doing, we hope to be the business school of choice for existing and aspiring leaders. We will contribute to sustainable growth, helping leaders to integrate commercial success and societal well-being.

Additional Information

Hult International Business School, Inc. is a non-profit corporation organised in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and accredited by the New England Association of Schools & Colleges to award US degrees. Hult in the UK has the ability to award UK degrees and, in addition, has a strategic alliance with Ashridge, which is a legally separate UK charity which also has the power to award its own UK degrees. Hult and Ashridge present a combined position under a familiar brand and operate as an integrated educational institution that leverages both strengths. Hult is an equal opportunity employer and offers competitive salaries and benefits in a global, deeply multicultural working environment.

October 2023