Hybrid Associate Director, Workforce Strategy

at Braven

• Job title: Associate Director, Workforce Strategy
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $92,000 - $114,900 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, New York City, United States

About the role

• Associate Director guiding college students towards strong post-college career outcomes. Leading strategy and engagement initiatives as part of Braven's workforce strategy team.

Responsibilities

• Develop vision and strategy to support Fellows in securing internships and strong post-college career outcomes
• Manage progress-to-goals tracking/reporting for student internship/job attainment, including monthly dashboard updates and annual survey collection process
• Manage and analyze student-level and program data, as well as track engagement within centralized systems, to determine and implement student support interventions
• Lead the annual Jobs Campaign to ensure graduates land a strong post-college career opportunity
• Provide strategic 1:1 career coaching for Fellows
• Build, cultivate, and steward relationships to gain a comprehensive understanding of opportunities within the field to refer students
• Develop and implement a strategy to build a regional Fellow community
• Create, plan, and execute events for Fellows to support community building, networking, and engagement
• Collaborate with the Career Communities team to promote continued career exploration and skills development for Fellows and to implement in-person workshops in some of Braven’s markets across the country and virtually in evening and some weekend hours.
• Collaborate with Employer Partners to execute on skill development and networking opportunities/events
• Attend Learning Labs to begin Fellow engagement
• Manage a Workforce Development intern
• Source Fellows to serve as interns and volunteers
• Support in the selection of PAFs to participate in Braven publications and events
• Participate in individual annual and quarterly planning and all team events
• Other duties as assigned
• Collaborate cross-functionally to help build the Braven brand
• Represent Braven externally as needed

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years of experience working with college students
• You have 5+ years of experience in a manager role
• You demonstrate a strong proficiency in early career coaching.
• You have experience in higher education or workforce strategy.
• You build inspiring visions and strategies that motivate others to action.
• You’re extremely detail-oriented and sweat the small stuff, while also not losing sight of the big picture.
• You build strong external and internal relationships with a variety of stakeholders and have significant experience tailoring your approach based on an understanding of the beliefs, motivations, and contexts of others.
• You continually reflect to improve, and actively create space for the receipt of upward feedback from individual contributors and manager.
• You exemplify Braven’s core values.
• Your experiences have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population.
• Ability to work in-person in either Chicago or New York City, on the designated 3 days per week.
• Travel 2-3 times per year for Braven-wide trainings and convenings
• Some nights and weekends are commensurate with Learning Labs and other campus-related activities as needed. Learning Lab schedules may vary by semester, but are most often held weekday evenings.

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and three team-wide, week-long shutdowns in Spring, Summer, and Winter (this is a minimum of 24 days per year)
• Braven supports your path to parenthood and beyond with $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health
• Match of your 401K contribution up to 5% of your base annual salary, starting your first full month
• Coverage of 85% of health insurance premium for employee and dependents
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave
• A one-month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff