Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with Bryn Mawr
College in the search for an Executive Director of Constituent
Engagement.
Reporting to the Chief Alumnae/i Relations and Development Officer,
the Executive Director of Constituent Engagement will implement
successful engagement strategies for Bryn Mawr College’s core
constituencies, including alumnae/i and families. The Executive
Director will oversee a complex volunteer structure and pipeline as
well as reunion giving, student, young alumnae/i, and family
engagement and philanthropy as well as traditional alumnae/i
engagement functions such as regional and club engagement and
volunteers, affinity engagement, and class-based engagement and
volunteerism. The Executive Director will serve as a member of a
small divisional management group tasked with the overall success
of the division and the advancement work of the College.
Established in 1885, Bryn Mawr College was founded to offer a more
rigorous education than any then available to women. Like many
projects of late 19th-century progressive thinkers, this bold
vision embodied emancipatory potential and deep contradictions.
From its founding, Bryn Mawr has prized superb teaching and
research. The College offered undergraduate and graduate degrees
from the outset, and was the first women’s college to offer the
Ph.D. While the College has been non-denominational for most of its
history, Bryn Mawr was founded by members of the Religious Society
of Friends (“Quakers”). Its Quaker legacy can be traced in the
costly, principled stands President Katherine McBride took on
behalf of freedom of belief and conscience during the McCarthy era
and in the late 1950s and during the Vietnam War, at times costing
the College government financial aid funds. The College’s
commitment to social justice has also found myriad forms of
expression on campus, including in the 1914 founding of its
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, one of the
first in the United States, and the deep engagement of many current
students in community service and with social justice issues.
Bryn Mawr remains a distinguished women’s college, located on a
beautiful residential campus just outside a major metropolitan
area. Two distinctive coed graduate schools and a
post-baccalaureate premedical program enrich the College community
and offer opportunities for advanced study.
At Bryn Mawr, students choose from a wide array of majors in the
sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. The College is a
leader in academic innovation, with a particular focus on putting
learning into action through research, fieldwork, community, and
social justice engagement, and internships. Bryn Mawr further
expands student’s options to learn and explore through
long-standing partnerships with Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges
and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as through the cultural
and social resources of Philadelphia.
Bryn Mawr College provides a rigorous education and encourages the
pursuit of knowledge as preparation for life and work. The
traditions of high expectations, academic excellence, civic
engagement, and ethical commitment remain at the core of Bryn
Mawr’s identity, expressed today through innovative academic
programs and approaches to learning and among students and
alumnae/i who pursue lives of purpose in all fields of
endeavor.
Bryn Mawr College’s influence extends far beyond students’ time on
campus. The Bryn Mawr community is unique: academically inspired,
civically engaged, and always deeply committed. Mawrters are agents
of change in every arena—forever members of a community founded on
respect for the individual. With connections near and far, Bryn
Mawr College’s networks span the globe.
In 2019 Bryn Mawr revised its mission statement to assert that
“equity and inclusion serve as the engine for excellence and
innovation,” and that “a commitment to racial justice and to equity
across all aspects of diversity propels our students, faculty, and
staff to reflect upon and work to build fair, open, and welcoming
institutional structures, values, and culture.” The College
recognizes that racial justice and equity are foundational values,
and that work to achieve them is urgent as well as an ongoing
priority. Bryn Mawr has made focused commitments to anti-racist
action and prioritized investments that incorporate critical
elements of its existing framework for action.
Bryn Mawr College will consider candidates with a broad range of
backgrounds. A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of
education and experience and at least five years of alumnae/i or
constituent relations experience is preferred. All applications
must be accompanied by a cover letter and résumé. Cover letters
should be responsive to the mission of Bryn Mawr College as well as
the responsibilities and qualifications stated in the
prospectus.
The salary range for this position is $115,000 to $130,000
annually.
To apply for this position, visit:
https://opportunities.aspenleadershipgroup.com/opportunities/1299.
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