1. Alumni Engagement for Student Recruitment, Experience & Employability Richard Screaton (Senior Alumni Officer) Emma Packham (Faculty Alumni Officer, Humanities and EPS)

2. Today’s session Overview of the Division Humanities alumni demographics Role of the Faculty Alumni Officers Alumni motivations and volunteering

3. Division of Development and Alumni Relations Alumni Relations Donor Programmes Operations

4. Our alumni Recruitment and reputation Donations Student experience and employability

5. Alumni events Cockcroft Rutherford Lecture – 1,400 guests (capacity) ‘Manchester Insight’ lectures Social/networking events in the UK and overseas

6. Alumni communications ‘Your Manchester’ (250,000 alumni) ‘Your Manchester Impact’ ‘Your Manchester Online’ E-newsletters President's Questionnaire (35,000 responses)

7. Humanities alumni by country

8. Humanities alumni by region

9. Alumni industry destination data

10. Recorded Humanities alumni by age

11. Faculty team role Harness alumni enthusiasm toward faculty, school and DDAR 2020 objectives Communication between alumni community and faculties Building on reunions, networking events with a ‘call to action’ Information sharing to build accurate, up to date database

12. Context - The 2020 Agenda Becoming one of the world’s great universities: Student experience – currently 79% satisfaction in NSS – aim: top 10% in UK Employability – currently in top 25% – aim: top 10% for employability Recruitment – student quality and increase PhD students by 30% (1,000) Social responsibility

13. Why they support us To see their University prosper Wanting to ‘give something back’ Support students in the current climate Support the University’s strategic development Ongoing intellectual engagement

14. Potential alumni programmes for schools Recruitment Open days and inductions Career profiles ‘Manchester Made Me’ interviews Experience Guest lectures Mentoring (UG, PhD, alumni) Industrial feedback on student projects Employability Internships and placements Careers/networking sessions School development External advisory board members Industry network groups/partners

15. Humanities projects SED – speed networking events AHC – alumni involvement at open days Law – work placements and Legal Advice Centre MEC – enterprise units for EngD MBS – guest speaker for MSc Education – destination data

16. How DDAR can help school activity Suggest ideas, share best practice Project planning tools for alumni activity Support alumni communications (content and mailing) Alumni events (advise and invite mailings) Data gathering (surveys, career profiles) Information on alumni (destination data and distinguished individuals)

17. Summary School contacts Demographics of Humanities alumni promise engagement Alumni want to help

18. Alumni Engagement Questions Richard Screaton (Senior Alumni Officer) Emma Packham (Faculty Alumni Officer, Humanities and EPS)