Assistant Director, Alumni Engagement NE
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Job overview
Based in New York City and reporting to the Executive Director, the Assistant Director manages alumni events and university programs throughout the Northeast. The role plans and executes programming aligned with university priorities, supports alumni engagement through online platforms and social media, and collaborates with campus colleagues. It also assists with major events on the Syracuse campus and may require work outside normal business hours.
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Full job description
Based in New York City and reporting to the Executive Director, this role manages alumni events and university programs throughout the Northeast. This individual plans events that align with university priorities, including student/recent graduate engagement, career services, donors, affinity groups, and lifelong learning. This includes program conceptualization, venue scouting, logistics, creation of "run of show" documents, and on-site execution of events. Manage event contracts, vendors, and related processes in regional locations as needed. S/He partners with colleagues based in colleges/schools/units on the development and implementation of programming that highlights programs, faculty, and other strategic priorities. This role manages online platforms/communities and social media channels to support alumni engagement, connectivity, and philanthropy.
This individual develops strong collaborative relationships with university alumni, friends, students, family, and campus colleagues. S/He serves as a front-line staff member who can answer alumni questions about Northeast alumni offerings, with the goal of deepening alumni engagement. Additionally, this position will assist with major events on the Syracuse, NY campus. The position may require working outside of normal business hours.
The Division of Advancement & External Affairs expresses a shared mission that is collaborative, trusted, respectful, future-focused and is aligned with the overall University. All current and new employees embrace and demonstrate dedication to promoting shared values in an inclusive work culture to propel the future of advancement operations in their everyday work.
How this job compares
Set against the 581 open Event Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$90–104K/yr40 salary ranges
- US median$20–23/hr60 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 70 open Event Management jobs in New York and 581 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- Experience
- Event Management postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 7 years (414 postings).
- Education
- 82 of the 581 open Event Management jobs (14%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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