Alumni Engagement Manager (Faculties)

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

About us

UCL Advancement is a dynamic and collaborative team, responsible for engaging our alumni and supporter community, and developing philanthropic partnerships to support UCL's objectives. UCL has launched Here, it will happen, our biggest philanthropic and engagement campaign yet, in our bicentennial year, that sets out our ambitions to solve global health, societal, climate and education challenges in UCL's next century.

Here, we have the determination to double down on our discoveries, translate our innovations into impact and inspire the citizens of the future. The campaign will unite some of the world's best researchers, with a committed donor and alumni community, to fuel the next 200 years of societal impact at UCL.

The Alumni Engagement team is responsible for nurturing UCL's most significant alumni and supporter relationships - in London, the UK, and across the globe. You will join the team at an incredibly exciting time as we deliver Here, it will happen.

Our activity is critical to the Advancement mission. The Alumni Engagement Manager (Faculties) role is an exciting position within the Faculties pillar of the Alumni Engagement team. You will support delivery of a gold-standard alumni experience and nurture relationships with our alumni across the university.

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.

About the role

Working with the Senior Alumni Engagement Manager (Faculties) and the Head of Alumni Engagement (Faculties), you will implement and continuously improve our new alumni engagement programme across your portfolio of faculties, proactively delivering communications, events and volunteering opportunities with faculty counterparts.

Critically, you will be responsible for increasing faculty and department engagement with their alumni communities. You will focus principally on managing core, mass engagement opportunities across your faculties to deepen alumni affinity to UCL, and support bespoke engagement where relevant. The role is central to engaging alumni in UCL's biggest ever campaign and building alumni giving pipelines.

Key accountabilities

• Creatively manage and develop relationships with faculty stakeholders, including senior academic and marketing staff.
• Steward a range of alumni to grow their support for UCL, managing relationships according to best practice.
• Collaborate with Advancement colleagues and other departments to leverage engagement opportunities that benefit faculty and campaign priorities.
• Build strong relationships with fundraisers, highlighting prospects, donors and supporters from your portfolio.
• Work closely with the Senior Alumni Engagement Manager (Faculties) to continuously improve faculty offerings.
• Deliver an annual programme of alumni engagement activity with faculty colleagues, including communications, events and volunteering.
• Support new initiatives and connect alumni to existing opportunities across UCL, building communities of engaged, philanthropically minded individuals worldwide.
• Work with the Alumni Engagement team and the Advancement Messaging, Storytelling & Content team to deliver a vibrant, innovative faculty engagement journey.
• Seek out innovative engagement practice at peer institutions, applying learnings where appropriate.
• Stay fully informed of UCL values and positions on issues of national and international importance, advising on matters of significant concern to the global alumni community.

Planning and reporting

• Work with the Head of Alumni Engagement (Faculties) and Faculties pillar colleagues to shape and implement a strategic faculties plan for 2026/2027 and beyond, delivering a campaign-aligned programme.
• Support the continuous review of alumni programming across the Faculties pillar and wider Alumni Engagement team.
• Collaborate with the Advancement Messaging, Storytelling & Content team to ensure the engagement journey covers all mass and targeted activity needed to grow engagement and a robust supporter pipeline.
• Work closely with fundraising teams so the programme underpins fundraising strategy, particularly in priority areas.
• Review data and contribute to robust KPIs measuring alumni engagement, conversion to fundraising prospects and alumni giving.
• Contribute to developing the vision and strategy for Advancement and alumni engagement, supporting UCL's objectives.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We particularly encourage applications from candidates underrepresented in UCL's workforce, including those from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, disabled people, and - for Grade 9 and 10 roles - women.

Read more: UCL Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Applicants should also familiarise themselves with UCL's policies on: Prevention of Bullying, Harassment and Sexual Misconduct Policy and Personal Relationships Policy.