Old Girls Manager
- Build lifelong connections within a values‑driven school community
- Champion Old girl engagement, legacy, and meaningful relationships
- Connect generations of Abbotsleigh women through events and storytelling
Welcome to Abbotsleigh, a pre-kindergarten to Year 12 Anglican day and boarding school for girls located in Wahroonga, on Sydney’s North Shore.
‘With education, women can do, or be, anything.’ (Miss Betty Archdale, 6th Headmistress 1958 – 1970)
Immediate start | Permanent full-time | Reports to Director of Development and Community Relations
Abbotsleigh is seeking a warm, relationship-focused Old Girls Manager to lead engagement with our former students — known as Old Girls, a traditional term used to describe past students of girls’ schools.
In this pivotal role, you will build lifelong connections between Old Girls and the School, delivering meaningful programs, events, reunions, mentoring and professional networking opportunities. You will be the primary point of contact for Old Girls and provide high-level support to the Abbotsleigh Old Girl Union (AOGU), working closely with its President and Executive Committee.
About the Role
Reporting to the Director of Development and Community Relations, you will:
- Lead engagement and relationship-building with Old Girls locally, nationally and internationally
- Plan and deliver reunions, milestone events and AOGU activities
- Support Old Girl volunteering, mentoring, careers and philanthropic engagement
- Manage communications, databases and digital engagement
- Provide professional governance and administrative support to the AOGU
- Event management skills to deliver multiple events throughout the year
Skills & Attributes
- Relationship focused with a strong service mindset
- Professional, discreet and solutions oriented
- Organised, adaptable and attentive to detail
- Collaborative and comfortable working across a school environment
- Supportive of Abbotsleigh’s ethos and values
Desirable
- Experience in education, not-for-profit or membership-based organisations
- Understanding of philanthropy or donor engagement
- Events or volunteer management experience
About You|Essential Knowledge & Experience
You are an organised, people-centred professional with experience in alumni, community or relationship management. You bring excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, confidence working with volunteers and senior stakeholders, and strong digital and CRM capability. This role requires flexibility, including some evening and weekend work for key events.
If you are passionate about building community, honouring tradition and creating contemporary engagement experiences, we would love to hear from you.
Abbotsleighs Commitment to Child Protection
Abbotsleigh is a ‘Child Safe Organisation' committed to ensuring the safety, welfare, and well-being of all children and young people at the School and is dedicated to protecting them from abuse and harm. All children and young people who come to Abbotsleigh have a right to feel and be safe.
Successful applicants will be subject to employment screening processes with the Office of the Children’s Guardian and will need to provide a current Working with Children registration number and undertake any annual training as required
We will review applications as they are received, ideally looking for someone to start ASAP. However closing date is 24 May 2026
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