Executive Director, UHNW Family Relations & Admissions

Alpha School; Burlington (VT); On-site; USD 341,000 - 359,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha School in the United States seeks a Director of Donor Relations to own the parent side of Alpha in a major metro, focusing on enrollment growth and advocacy among ultra-high-net-worth families. You will build partnerships, run admissions end-to-end, and turn enrolled families into public champions while managing escalations to preserve the school model.

You will spend half your time on outward-facing work with families, offices, and communities, and half on escalation coordination within

Qualifications

• 7+ years leading high-stakes relationships in private or independent K-12 education, fundraising or major gifts, enterprise sales, client success, or private wealth management.
• 2+ years working directly and regularly with ultra-high-net-worth or similarly high-expectation families.
• Proven ownership of measurable enrollment, retention, advocacy, sales, or client outcomes, including resolving sensitive situations and holding firm standards.
• Polished executive communication, consultative judgment, and genuine conviction in Alpha's accelerated learning model.

Responsibilities

• Build a metro where Alpha families are 2 Hour Learning’s loudest advocates — and where no parent crisis is resolved by compromising the model.
• Running admissions for wealthy families end to end: info sessions, 1:1 follow-up in the CRM, and the enrollment decision, including telling a family this is not the right school for their child
• Turning enrolled parents into public champions of 2 Hour Learning through advocacy workshops and parent-to-parent networks, so enrolled families become your strongest source of new inquiries
• Resolving the escalations others cannot: diagnosing whether the problem is the model, campus execution, or family fit, engaging the family directly, then writing up the precedent for the rest of the network
• Keeping current families close through regular touchpoints, and reporting the patterns you hear back to leadership

Skills

Executive communication

UHNW client relations

Enrollment outcomes

Public stakeholder engagement

On-site work readiness

Job description

Alpha School in the United States seeks a Director of Donor Relations to own the parent side of Alpha in a major metro, focusing on enrollment growth and advocacy among ultra-high-net-worth families. You will build partnerships, run admissions end-to-end, and turn enrolled families into public champions while managing escalations to preserve the school model.

You will spend half your time on outward-facing work with families, offices, and communities, and half on escalation coordination within