Programme Officer, Leadership Development in Oxford

We have a great opportunity for an Alumni Relations and Programmes Officer to join the Rhodes Trust, Oxford. This role will be a crucial part of the Global Programmes and Alumni Engagement team, working closely with the Global Programmes and Alumni Engagement Lead to deliver a suite of Alumni engagement activities, communications and events, fora and programming.

We are looking for the successful candidate to start with us as soon as possible.

• Support the planning, design and delivery of the Global Programming portfolio, supporting to deliver keystone initiatives such as reunions, convenings, UK and global Alumni events, and supporting constituencies with less activity, ensuring a proactive calendar of Alumni and public activities.
• Support the delivery of the Global Welcome Home Weekend, a residential retreat, across 3-4 different countries in order to integrate recently graduated scholars with the alumni community, and travel as required.
• Monitor the Alumni and conferences mailboxes and ensure a timely reply to all queries and requests directed to them.
• Provide appropriate responses to a varied range of enquiries from community, and non-community, members by email, phone, post and in person.
• Under the guidance of the Global Programmes and Alumni Engagement Lead, lead on key Alumni engagement initiatives as required, for example the annual Meeting Minds Alumni Dinner or the Scholars Library series.
• Role modelling the Trust's organisational values of commitment, inclusion, belonging, growth and innovation.
• Experience in event planning and delivery, both in-person and online and/or hybrid.
• Tech-savvy with proven experience with Microsoft packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and online event platforms (Zoom, Eventbrite) as well as being willing to learn new platforms.
• Experience with customer relationship management platforms (such as Salesforce) is desirable, but the ability to manage data and reports is essential.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with immediate colleagues, as well as with external stakeholders.
• Previous Alumni Relations experience, or experience working with communities.
• Previous programming experience.
• Experience with Salesforce.

The Rhodes Trust is an educational charity which offers Rhodes Scholarships to exceptional students from around the world to come and study at the University of Oxford. In recent years, we have also partnered with several other remarkable organisations to create the Mandela Rhodes Foundation, the Atlantic Institute, Schmidt Science Fellows, RISE and Oxford Next Horizons.

30 days annual leave (pro rata) plus 8 bank holidays, competitive pension scheme, generous family leave schemes, private health insurance, Employee Assistance Programme, personal development opportunities, additional benefits, such as free access to the University's gardens, parks, libraries and museums, and University staff discounts in shops across Oxford, cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme.

We warmly welcome applications from talented people of diverse backgrounds and appoint without regard to age, disability, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, parental status, marital or civil partner status, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, nationality, religion or belief.