Alumni Affairs and Communications Specialist | Phoenix Metro Area

The Alumni Affairs and Communications Specialist will expand our current efforts in alumni affairs from capturing and documenting alumni success stories to deepening our connections with our 160,000 graduates to better activate them as part of the extended PMI brand / family.

The future is bright for Pima Medical Institute, and we're excited to have a new team member join us to help fuel and guide our growth.

Are you a communications expert with a passion for translating ideas into action? Do you function best as part of a larger mission, one that provides a major benefit to society? Pima Medical Institute (PMI) is looking for a go-getter to join us in a new role, leading our internal communications function and being the primary point of contact for our 160,000 graduates.

The Company

Pima Medical Institute (PMI) is a proprietary school offering allied health training. Operating for over 50 years and headquartered in Tucson, AZ, we have grown to 16 campuses in seven states, plus a robust Online offering with accredited programs in the Medical, Dental, and Veterinary fields. PMI has a proud history of excellent student outcomes with a clear focus on career placements that allow our students to gain a head start or progress in their careers in healthcare. Our founder (Dick Luebke, Sr.) gifted 30% of the company to his employees in 2002, creating an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan), and our employees now own almost 70% of PMI (to reach 100% employee owned) – this is an integral part of our culture and is unique in our space.

The Opportunity

The Alumni Affairs and Communications Specialist will expand our current efforts in alumni affairs, from capturing and documenting alumni success stories to deepening our connections with our 160,000 graduates to better activate them as part of the extended PMI brand / family.

For the last 20 years, PMI has done an exceptional job of telling alumni success stories and sharing them internally, in company milestone anniversary books, and digitally. Our goal is to enhance these processes and develop ways for us to connect more deeply with more of our alumni.

This role also includes responsibilities for internal communications with PMI's 1,000 employee-owners – our senior team has increasingly prioritized improved employee communications over the last 3 years but would like this to be a more intentional and coordinated effort. Our communications are more ad hoc, providing updates on key strategic priorities at timely points throughout the year. With a dedicated resource responsible for coordinating these efforts, we can increase the impact of these communications, improving connectivity with all employees across a broader range of subjects and ultimately increasing our employees' connection to our student-driven mission and building upon their ownership mindset.

This new position's responsibilities will include the following :

• Primary lead for all outreach with alumni, including leading alumni events, communication strategy, and activation. Be the primary point of contact for our alumni.
• A key part of the responsibilities will be to connect with alumni and capture and ‘tell' their stories – this will require significant networking with them, identifying which stories to tell, capturing those stories, and sharing them (via written stories, video sharing, or otherwise).
• Enhancing digital storytelling via audio / video capture. The ability to innovate and use engaging connections and communication methods (especially with our target students) is highly desirable.
• Planning and executing our internal communications strategy – increasing employee engagement through more timely and relevant updates via enhanced communications vehicles, e.g., blogs, podcasts, town halls, etc. As an ESOP-owned company, we practice ‘open book management,' and this communications strategy will leverage that to lean in on and improve our employees' ownership mindset.
• This position will be a key resource, working in collaboration with the senior team on communications vehicles like quarterly board meeting materials, ESOP newsletters, annual employee ‘road shows,' and others as needed.

Key Attributes

Specific Job Duties

Support communication strategies to foster alumni relationships through targeted messaging and content

Respond to stories submitted via the alumni site, faculty recommendations, etc.

Create and maintain a plan for internal communications that increases employee engagement, especially leveraging ESOP to increase our employees' ownership mindset

Minimum Qualification

Compensation & Benefits

Salary : $64,490 - $80,610