University of Nottingham
Deputy Director of Alumni Engagement
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Area
DARO Alumni and Networks
Location
Jubilee Campus
Salary
£59,966 to £73,686 per annum pro-rata depending on skills and experience.
Closing Date
Sunday 27 September 2026
Reference
DARO385326
About The Role
We’re looking for a Deputy Director of Alumni Engagement to help lead a recently transformed team, united by a strong sense of purpose and momentum. You'll have real autonomy here: guiding how our alumni experience keeps evolving, how technology and insight sharpen it, and how a sense of belonging holds together across a truly global community. As a member of the DARO Senior Leadership Team, you’ll shape how the whole office — fundraising, alumni engagement and operations — works together.
About You
- Experience of designing and delivering strategies that increase participation and strengthen life-long connection.
- Experience of leading volunteer, ambassador or stakeholder engagement programmes with openness, curiosity and a readiness to explore new perspectives.
- An evidence-based approach to improving engagement outcomes, using data and insight to guide decisions.
- Experience of reaching across boundaries to exchange ideas and build effective partnerships.
- Experience of inspiring colleagues to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.
These are skills built in many careers — membership, community engagement, customer experience, charities and beyond. What matters most is your ability to shape strategy, build partnerships, and help people connect, contribute and champion a shared mission.
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About Us
The Development and Alumni Relations Office connects the University to a global alumni community of 360,000, plus donors and supporters around the world, who share in that ambition. We turn reach into something real: lifelong relationships, lasting engagement, and the philanthropic support that helps the University pursue its biggest ambitions.
What We Offer
- A friendly, diverse, and supportive working environment.
- A hybrid working arrangement with the blended approach of home and office working each week.
- Generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (or pro rata) plus standard bank holidays and five university closure days including closure between Christmas and New Year.
- We are committed to staff development through the provision of training, continued support, and career progression opportunities.
- You will have access to a range of benefits and rewards, including fitness and health facilities, staff discounts, travel schemes and many more. To find out more about what we can offer you, follow the link to our benefits website
What’s Next
Further information is available in the role profile. To apply for this vacancy please click ‘Apply Now’ to complete your details.
This is a permanent role. Your working hours will be full-time (36.25 hours per week). If you are interested in part-time work (minimum 29 hours per week), we encourage you to apply. Please specify your preferred hours in your application.
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If you would like an informal conversation about the role, please contact Jon Ashford-Smith at jonathan.ashford-smith@nottingham.ac.uk . Please note that applications sent directly to this email address will not be accepted.
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Our university is a supportive, inclusive, caring and positive community. We welcome those of different cultures, ethnicities and beliefs – indeed this very diversity is vital to our success, it is fundamental to our values and enriches life on campus. Visit our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion website.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) employer . Increasing the diversity of our community is extremely important to us and we are committed to the aims of Disability Confident Scheme.
We are the first university to have achieved Athena Swan Gold Award.
To help you succeed, we published Candidate Guidance to provide support on the application and interview process.
Discover our benefits, visit Your Benefits website.
We welcome applications from UK, Europe and worldwide and aim to make your move to the UK as smooth as possible. Visit the Moving to Nottingham page for details.
Your application will be considered on an equal basis, subject to the relevant permission to work in the UK as set out by UK Visas & Immigration.
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