Hybrid Senior Director

at Braven

• Job title: Senior Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $122,500 - $153,100 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Senior Director overseeing programmatic success at the Higher Education Partner for Braven. Leading and managing local implementation of programs to support college students in Chicago.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and ensure strong local program implementation at the HEP, including the pre-course, course, and post-course experience, to meet programmatic goals.
• Drive and responsible for the quality of regionally owned program elements, including (but not limited to) local programming, learning lab implementation, data collection for job campaign, etc.
• For the elements of the program that are delivered by the center, serve as a check for the HEP satisfaction and fit with local student needs and campus culture; provide feedback to the central teams in a spirit of partnership and continuous improvement.
• Assess data continuously and ensure students are on track to graduate and secure strong jobs.
• Partner with Braven’s Product team to develop supports and interventions to achieve student job outcomes.
• Participate in the organization-wide efforts to drive program model strategy and decisions, recommending changes as needed to Braven’s program model to achieve transformational and sustainable impact.
• Observe, provide feedback, and collaborate in weekly in-person and virtual Braven Accelerator course, virtual and in-person career events, student recruitment events, and other key moments throughout the year.
• Take initiative to deeply understand Braven’s program, outcomes, and indicators of success by collaborating with other site teams, shadowing the Braven Accelerator, becoming a Leadership Coach, and using different strategies that build context, trust, and understanding.
• Develop and steward strong and formalized partnerships with the HEP leadership and faculty, employers, and community-based organizations that result in additional resources for our students and improvements to our program model.
• Cultivate and manage relationships with key HEP stakeholders that foster collaboration and a healthy partnership.
• Lead and co-lead meetings with the HEP stakeholders to build Braven into the career ecosystem and ensure that Braven is upholding partnership goals and agreements.
• Act as the "mayor" of the local HEP, deeply understanding the ecosystem, owning local relationships (faculty, professor of record, etc.), and the campaign manager running local campaigns on campus.
• Build a collaborative team culture of individuals committed to achieving excellence, meeting site goals, and living out Braven's core values.
• Co-create a strategy in partnership with the Executive Director for the HEP site and drive stakeholders towards the shared vision.
• Utilize the deep understanding of the local context and assets available to knit together an overarching strategy that brings the right programmatic and structural enrollment supports to the campus.
• Set goals and key performance indicators for the HEP that drive scale and strong first opportunity outcomes among Fellows and are aligned with Braven’s local and national priorities that are set in partnership with central teams.
• Lead and manage the Program Staff
• Provide organization-wide leadership within the One Braven Group- internal staff advisory group.
• Cultural stewardship of Braven’s Core Values
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• BS/BA
• At least 7 years of leadership experience with a verifiable track record of successful outcomes.
• Prior work experience in higher education, 7-10 years in non-profit field
• Technical Skills and Knowledge: Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack, Jira
• Experience in an early-stage environment launching an initiative, program, or team
• Success in managing and developing people and teams while creating and fostering a strong sense of culture
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills and ability to facilitate strong partnerships across a range of stakeholders
• High degree of flexibility and adaptability, ability to excel in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment and comfort with ambiguity
• Proven ability to create, operationalize, and manage project plans, meeting milestones and deadlines
• Data-driven mindset with focus on using data and metrics to drive decisions and measure performance
• Exemplification of Braven’s core values
• Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population

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