Does anyone work in alumni relations? I've an interview next week

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and I'm a bit stumped by the question they've asked me to do a presentation on.

?You are organising an alumni event overseas but you will not be attending the event. It will be partially delivered by local alumni volunteers. How would you approach this and what are the key considerations??

I've made some notes about assessing the risks posed by this approach, the importance of planning and clear communications, allocating roles.

But I feel they might be looking for something more sophisticated than that. What am I missing?

What are the motivations of the l

...local volunteers? How were they selected?

Are there any language issues with you preparing a presentation for someone else?

How will they handle delivery - just one presenter or many?

What's the call to action of the presentation and how will this be followed up?

If you won't be there how will you know how it went? How will you get feedback?

Thank you, thank you.

TheDoc - for some reason, the possibly of a language barrier had completely passed me by........

Helen - thank you for the reminder about evaluation

What are the most popular courses for that region. Is that region in a key recruitment group. Ensure that volunteers know about investments and developments in popular subject areas. If there are any partnership agreements with region and uni , make sure volunteers know about it. Can pics, examples be taken....
Is there a strong history of alumni donations from that Region? If so how how do alumni from that region like to donate? What do they like to hear about and donate to.
Which other staff are going? Can the volunteers meet them? What are the objectives of the visit.
Make sure volunteers know how many students are currently at uni from that region, areas they are studying in etc. Ensure any 'star' alumni are identified by name and if possible know names of frequent donators.
That's a quick brain storm of things I would be thinking about.

Blimey you are all bloomin' marvellous. Feeling so much more confident now.

I don't suppose you'd be kind enough to throw out some interview questions for me to practice?

I think I have a chance with this job, but I have a dreadful habit of going to pieces in interviews