Hybrid Executive Director

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Managing regional team members: Senior Director and External Affairs Manager
  • Implementing a comprehensive multi-year strategic plan to reach our vision for scale and excellent outcomes with Delaware State University and future Delaware Area sites.
  • With the Senior Director, ensuring strong program execution resulting in both positive experiences and outcomes for Fellows, volunteers, and partners
  • Managing and expanding a regional advisory board that will help maximize the Delaware area’s impact, narrative, and sustainability
  • Ensuring the health of key executive stakeholder relationships at both the university and the foundation, adjacent nonprofit organizations, and employer partners
  • Raising Braven’s brand awareness through thought-leadership, awards, public speaking, social media, and press pieces
  • Explore the local political landscape and engage in critical policy efforts when relevant
  • Raising ~$5.1million over the next three years for the region, among other external priorities.
  • Deepening our political capital and thought leadership to ensure that our Delaware area region maintains its meaningful position in the educational fabric of the community
  • Focusing on significantly growing and diversifying a sustainable funding base that will include gifts from individuals, corporations, foundations, and government
  • Attracting, hiring, and developing a team of diverse and talented staff members
  • Coaching and developing regional staff members to exhibit strong cultural leadership skills and orientations
  • Serving on the organization’s Alignment Team (executive team) to influence organization-wide impact, growth, and sustainability

Requirements

  • BS/BA
  • 7-10 years leadership experience as an Executive, leading a department, or similar, with a verifiable track record of achieving successful outcomes while maintaining an inclusive, equitable, and sustainable team culture.
  • 1-3 years in non-profit field
  • Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack, Jira, and Confluence
  • You have a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
  • 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.
  • Motivation and drive to fundraise and ensure the financial sustainability of the region; an ability to mobilize people and to create champions of an organizational mission
  • Experience building and working in partnership with a Board of Directors, partner organizations, funders, and other key constituents
  • Strong presence, communication skills, relationship-building skills, and maturity that engender respect and facilitate a strong partnership with very senior-level staff and Faculty, high-profile community stakeholders and civic leaders, Braven staff, Fellows, and Leadership Coaches
  • High level of personal responsibility, professional maturity and humility, commitment to personal growth, and self-awareness of one’s own leadership style and its impact on others
  • Ability to make strong data-informed decisions because you excel at drawing actionable insights from analyses and translating for yourself and others how these insights further your strategy
  • Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and has 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

Job title

Executive Director

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

$179,600 - $224,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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