Alumni Trips Specialist

As the Alumni Trips Specialist you will work with and support the Alumni Trips team with the development, marketing, management, execution, evaluation of global NOLS Alumni Trips, seminars, and coordination of special events that offer continuing education and a continued NOLS experience/connection.

Reporting to the Alumni Trips Director, you will partner in crafting the medium and long term vision and strategic plans of the department. You will be responsible for the oversight of enrollment and operations in addition to working with clients, partners, and other NOLS stakeholders to ensure excellent Alumni Trips experiences. In this role you will need the ability to execute a high level of judgment and independent decision making that is aligned with the department vision. You will be expected to perform all day to day operations of client services, engage in vendor relation management, and carry out fiscally responsible decision making. 

The Alumni Trips team is a full-service operation for our Alumni. As part of the team you will build the annual trip plan, market trips and innovate new offerings, manage all aspects of enrollment, assign trip leaders, and many much more. This role will hold oversight to our primary processes around operations and enrollment. That oversight will be a combination of task supervision and execution and will be collaborative with part-time employees of the department.

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What does the Alumni Trips Specialist do?

Operations

Enrollment

What makes a great Alumni Trips Specialist at NOLS? 

We are looking for people who share our values and are keen to learn and develop their expertise. We are looking for candidates with the skills listed below. We expect to provide training and development support in some of the areas.

The Alumni Trips office provides a concierge style of service to our Alumni. A great Trips Specialist will enjoy answering questions about Trips and sharing excitement about NOLS with our Alumni. 

In your first 6 months, you will:

Who are we and what can we offer you?

NOLS is a nonprofit global wilderness school that seeks to help people step forward boldly as a leader.

We believe that anyone can be a leader; it is our role to provide the environment and training to help people discover their full potential. We do that in classrooms close to home and in remote wilderness areas around the world. We are an organization with heart, expertise, and wildness, and these qualities help us support powerful, authentic experiences.

NOLS really is a great place to work:

Next steps

All you need to do is start the process by clicking on the yellow button on the top right.

You’ll answer some questions that are related to your day-to-day job. After the job closes, your answers will go through our sift process: all answers will be anonymized, randomized and then reviewed by a panel of reviewers. If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next step, which includes an interview.

Additional Information

NOLS can currently employ remote employees who have legal working rights in the United States, Canada, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, and India. In the U.S. and Canada, we can support remote employees in the following states/provinces: Alaska, Arizona, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Maine, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Utah, Washington, or Wyoming.

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