Capital Camps & Retreat Center (CCRC) is seeking a creative, organized, and relationship-driven Alumni Engagement & 40th Anniversary Coordinator to help reconnect generations of alumni, celebrate four decades of camp memories, and invite our community into an exciting milestone year.
This part-time position offers a meaningful opportunity to help shape alumni outreach, engagement, volunteer involvement, and anniversary programming throughout the year. It is a great fit for someone who loves camp, community building, communications, event planning, and bringing people together around shared memories and future possibilities.
This is a unique chance to help build something lasting: a stronger alumni network, a more connected camp community, and a celebration that honors CCRC’s past while helping shape its future.
About Capital Camps & Retreat Center
Capital Camps & Retreat Center provides transformative Jewish overnight camp and retreat experiences for children, families, and communities across the Mid-Atlantic region. In addition to summer camp, the Retreat Center hosts year-round programs for organizations, families, and community groups, serving thousands of participants annually.
The agency’s administrative offices are located in North Bethesda, Maryland, with its camp and retreat center situated in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania.
What You’ll Do
The Alumni Engagement & 40th Anniversary Coordinator will help design and carry out a year-long effort to reconnect alumni, strengthen relationships, gather stories, and create meaningful opportunities for former campers, staff, families and community members to engage with CCRC and with one another.
Alumni Outreach & Engagement
- Help identify and reconnect with former campers, staff, families, and other members of the Capital Camps community
- Develop creative outreach strategies to reach alumni across generations
- Build relationships with alumni and help identify individuals interested in becoming more involved with CCRC
- Conduct personalized outreach through email, phone, social media, and other channels
- Help develop and manage social media groups, online communities, email lists, and other platforms that give alumni ongoing opportunities to connect with CCRC and with one another
- Explore new tools and platforms that can strengthen alumni networking, communication, and community-building
- Recruit and coordinate alumni volunteers and ambassadors
- Create opportunities for alumni to reconnect with one another and with current camp life
- Track outreach, responses, interests, and engagement in partnership with the philanthropy team
40th Anniversary Planning & Programming
- Help coordinate CCRC’s 40th anniversary initiatives and events taking place through the end of 2027
- Maintain project plans, timelines, calendars, and follow-up for anniversary activities
- Work with the philanthropy team to develop meaningful opportunities to celebrate CCRC’s history and community
- Help organize alumni gatherings, reunions, virtual programs, community events, and anniversary experiences
- Coordinate invitations, registration, communications, volunteers, logistics, and post-event follow-up
- Support special anniversary programming during the summer season
- Help identify alumni stories, milestones, traditions, photos, and memories that bring Capital Camps’ history to life
Alumni Communications & Storytelling
- Help draft alumni emails, newsletters, invitations, surveys, updates, and other communications
- Work with the marketing team to develop alumni-focused digital and social media content
- Help collect stories, photographs, memories, and reflections from across CCRC’s history
- Conduct alumni interviews and help identify compelling stories for anniversary communications
- Help develop content that celebrates CCRC’s past while inviting alumni to be part of its future
Community Building & Volunteer Engagement
- Support alumni-led gatherings and engagement opportunities
- Work with the philanthropy team to identify alumni interested in supporting CCRC through volunteerism, leadership, or philanthropy
- Help establish systems and traditions that can support a stronger long-term alumni program after the anniversary year concludes
Collaboration
- Work closely with CCRC’s executive, philanthropy, marketing, and camp teams
- Coordinate with the Philanthropy Operations & Campaign Associate on alumni data, lists, tracking, and reporting
- Bring creativity, enthusiasm, and new ideas to how CCRC connects and engages generations across its community
What We’re Looking For
The right person for this role is a natural connector: someone who enjoys reaching out to people, building relationships, hearing their stories, and turning ideas into experiences that help a community feel seen, remembered, and connected.
We know great candidates may not meet every qualification exactly. If this opportunity excites you, we encourage you to apply.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects, timelines, and follow-up items
- Comfortable initiating outreach and communicating with people across generations
- Experience in community engagement, alumni relations, events, communications, nonprofit work, Jewish communal work, education, camp, or a related field preferred
- Comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with a team
- Experience with email platforms, social media, Canva, or other communications tools is helpful
- Experience with CRM systems or constituent databases is a plus but not required
- Ability to attend occasional in-person meetings and events in North Bethesda, Maryland and Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
- Availability for occasional evening or weekend events
- Strong familiarity with Capital Camps, Jewish overnight camp, or Jewish communal life is helpful.
Work Environment & Schedule
- Part-time, hourly position (potential for a shift in hours and/or responsibilities upon conclusion of 40th anniversary events)
- Flexible schedule, with hours varying based on projects and the anniversary event calendar
- Hybrid/remote work is available for a significant portion of the role
- Regular communication and collaboration with the CCRC team
- Periodic in-person meetings in North Bethesda, Maryland
- In-person participation required for select alumni programs, anniversary events, and summer activities in North Bethesda and/or Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
- Occasional evening and weekend availability required for events
Compensation & Benefits
- $25–$27 per hour, commensurate with experience
- Flexible, part-time schedule
- Possible Camp tuition discounts
- Full room and board provided during the summer while working on the Waynesboro campus
- Collaborative, mission-driven, and community-oriented team culture
To Apply
Please send your resume and a brief cover letter to [email protected] and tell us why this opportunity interests you.