Hybrid Executive Director

at Braven

• Job title: Executive Director
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $179,600 - $224,400 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dover, United States

About the role

• Executive Director overseeing Braven’s programming and partnerships in the Delaware region. Leading team and managing regional growth and fundraising efforts.

Responsibilities

• 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