Braven

Director

• Implementing a comprehensive multi-year strategic plan to reach our vision for scale and excellent outcomes with our prospective partner and future AL region, higher education partners.
• With the Regional Senior Director, ensuring strong program execution resulting in both positive experiences and outcomes for Fellows, volunteers, and partners
• Building, managing, and expanding a regional advisory board that will help maximize the AL region’s impact, narrative, and sustainability
• Ensuring the health of key stakeholder relationships at both university and employer partners, including university and corporate executives
• 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 roughly $9M prior to the launch of the new school, among other external priorities.
• Deepening our political capital and thought leadership to ensure that our 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
• Directly manage and develop the Regional Senior Director and Director, External Affairs
• Coaching and developing regional staff members to exhibit strong cultural leadership skills and orientations
• Serving as the model and leader of Braven culture within the hub
• Serving on the organization’s Alignment Team to influence organization-wide impact, growth, and sustainability

Executive Director

Attorney

• Serve as the first point of contact for contract and grant review requests
• Prepare and provide guidance on organizational contracts, grant agreements, leases, and memoranda of understanding
• Own the contract management infrastructure, including systems, practices, clause libraries, periodic audits, and analytics, evolving practices to maximize organizational efficiency
• Support Braven’s New Sites and Current Sites teams during Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) negotiations and renewals as needed
• Mitigate organizational risk through implementing a strategy that strengthens contract terms, ensures organizational compliance, and supports Braven’s mission and strategic direction
• Develop and lead or co-facilitate staff trainings related to contract negotiation, Braven policies, and relevant developments
• Own the trademark application process
• Maintain and provide updated agreement templates in accordance with shifting policies
• Manage and continuously improve Higher Education Partner MOU templates
• Track baseline metrics for contract response times, rates, turnaround, and completion to evaluate efficiency and effectiveness
• Steward internal teams through the execution of contracts and agreements, ensuring signatories understand their obligations
• Own and ensure organizational compliance with the record retention policy, and schedule knowledge management processes
• Coordinate with and support the Finance team as needed regarding state registrations and corporate filings
• Serve as a thought partner to staff members navigating internal legal processes and requirements
• Partner with the Data and Systems teams to ensure data sharing agreements associated with partner MOU’s and vendor contracts are aligned with Braven's policies and values
• Partner with Data and Transformation teams related to Braven’s AI initiatives
• Design and manage the Legal Team’s knowledge management page on Confluence
• Own the monitoring of legislative and regulatory changes in all Braven hubs; propose organizational policy changes as needed
• Research and provide updates to staff on matters pertaining to federal and state law compliance and university partnerships
• Support Braven’s Policy team with the review of current and proposed legislation impacting Braven and/or its higher education partners
• Direct and guide the work of ensuring lobbying activity is compliant across jurisdictions by reviewing required filings, monitoring federal and state developments, and coordinating with General Counsel and Policy team
• Support Braven’s People team by assisting with workplace investigations as needed
• Support Braven’s Finance team with issues related to procurement and financial audits
• Develop and facilitate risk management trainings
• Monitor incident report submissions regarding students and coordinate organizational response as appropriate
• Lead document collection and production in response to external information requests
• Identify and mitigate risk in organizational operations/processes and independently escalate critical compliance issues as needed
• Serve as the subject matter expert on legal AI trends, tools, and opportunities, and co-lead the Legal Team's AI strategy
• Conduct research and analysis on various issues relevant to the higher education industry and nonprofit organizations
• Prepare and present slide decks as needed
• Draft, review, update, and interpret Braven policies and procedures
• Coordinate matters with outside counsel as needed
• Assist in shaping the Legal Department’s strategic priorities for future fiscal years
• Support the General Counsel with unplanned, time-sensitive requests arising from the dynamic nature of a growing organization, including drafting communications, preparing materials for urgent stakeholder engagements, and executing on organizational priorities as they emerge.
• Drive various projects that may involve other teams
• Be a strategic and innovative thinker who can offer a solutions and outcomes mindset to complex legal matters
• Perform other duties as assigned

Director, Legal Operations

Recruitment

• Develop and maintain documentation, SOPs, and knowledge-sharing resources for consistent, scalable talent operations.
• Own the interview coordination process, ensuring speed, consistency, accuracy, and a world-class candidate experience.
• Support compliance efforts, audits, and reporting in partnership with People Operations, Finance, and Legal
• Collaborate cross-functionally to streamline processes and deliver operational excellence across the talent lifecycle.
• Identify gaps, inefficiencies, or risks in people processes and proactively propose solutions to the Director Talent Acquisitions while comfortable building from zero and energized by the absence of existing playbooks.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for the recruitment technology ecosystem (e.g., Workday and Workable) managing configurations, integrations, troubleshooting, and user support.
• Approach broken processes with curiosity while mapping, diagnosing, and fixing inefficiencies with a systems-thinking mindset.
• Drive innovation in recruitment technology by identifying opportunities to simplify workflows, integrate new tech and AI, and enhance overall efficiency.
• Build dashboards, analyze KPIs, and co-translate recruiting data into actionable recommendations that inform strategic decisions.
• Manage a small portfolio of searches, supporting end-to-end hiring processes including job setup, interview logistics, candidate communications, and offer coordination.
• Ensure data accuracy, process consistency, and timely movement of candidates within the Applicant Tracking System.
• Deliver an equitable, candidate-centered hiring experience that reflects Braven's values
• Co-lead enablement sessions on interview best practices and hiring processes, earning trust and building strong relationships with hiring managers across functions.

Associate Director, Talent Acquisition – Operations

• Manage, develop, coach, and empower Associate Directors of Program Success across 5-7 higher education partnership sites
• Cultivate a culture of belonging, results orientation, curiosity, continuous improvement, and collaboration to drive program outcomes and a strong staff experience in line with Braven’s core values and core competencies
• Ensure your teammates have the right mindsets, collaboration structures, data review protocols, and student intervention strategies to drive outcomes with fidelity
• Be accountable for student grades, mastery of content, and course outcomes
• Develop processes to monitor student outcomes and grader management across sites, and support teammates to curate the right strategies and tactics to meet goals and sustain relationships with critical stakeholders
• Deeply understand the idiosyncrasies, policies, norms, and preferences of the campuses and regional teams’ Professor of Record appointed to the course
• Problem-solve issues that arise at each site, balancing student outcomes, customer service orientation, and the needs and interests of our regional teams on whose behalf we deliver the course
• In collaboration with the Product and Tech teams, build the requisite tools, processes, and systems to ensure quality execution of student intervention at scale across campuses
• Lead regular student performance reviews with ADPSs, analyzing trends and developing intervention plans for students at risk of disengagement or not completing the course successfully
• Build reusable Learning and Development for ADPSs to introduce, reinforce, and develop the right mindsets, skills, competencies, and practices to drive strong student outcomes
• Establish a knowledge-sharing system for ADPSs to document and exchange effective practices, case studies, and lessons learned.
• Collaborate with other same-role peers to ensure the Head of Central Accelerator Delivery and the Product Leadership are equipped with org-wide trends, bright spots, and red flags in the world of Accelerator outcomes
• Advocate for and collaborate with other central teams to improve the entire program delivery apparatus and enable sustained success at scale through collaboration
• Internalize the functions and goals of other teams and proactively communicate across teams to ensure you are equipping them to succeed
• Work with peers and the Head of Central Accelerator Delivery to assess overall program outcomes and make decisions that optimize program quality, drive participant impact, and enable fidelity to achieve organizational outcomes
• Other duties as assigned

Director, Academic Success

Full-stack Engineer

• Build and ship features (70%)
• - Implement well-scoped features, fixes, and automations in Python and/or Ruby on Rails, guiding them from clear specs to production.
• - Write and maintain tests for the code you ship, and debug issues in existing features, keeping the student end-user in mind.
• Collaborate and learn (20%)
• - Participate in Scrum, sprints, and code reviews, and apply feedback from senior engineers.
• - Document your work and keep code, data, and records clear, maintainable, and secure.
• Grow your craft (10%)
• - Build foundational software engineering practices and stay informed on industry trends, security, and data privacy.
• - Other duties as assigned

Associate Software Engineer

• Scope and lead full-stack initiatives in Python and/or Ruby on Rails across our platform, data pipelines, and program automation, from ambiguous problems to production.
• Make pragmatic architecture and technical design decisions that keep our systems robust, performant, secure, and maintainable.
• Review code and architecture proposals, and mentor engineers to help them grow.
• Champion testing, observability, and engineering best practices, and improve our processes and documentation.
• Partner across technical and non-technical teams, participate in scrum and sprints, and integrate the systems our programs rely on.
• Stay informed on industry trends, security, data privacy, and emerging AI tooling, and bring them to the team.
• Other duties as assigned

Senior Software Engineer

• Lead the development and execution of strategic initiatives and projects directly alongside executive leaders, ensuring alignment with our business model and program model. Example projects might include evolving Braven’s regional and central business units and developing & executing a new change management framework.
• Collaborate with the executive team to identify and evaluate new business opportunities and partnerships that align with Braven’s strategic goals.
• Lead working groups that drive our strategic plan to execution, codify decisions and next steps, report progress to Braven’s leadership, and make recommendations for unlocking.
• Establish and achieve key performance indicators (KPIs) to track the success of strategic initiatives.
• Design, build, and manage a system to document, cascade, and monitor Braven’s most important metrics across program and organizational health
• Own the build, rollout, and maintenance of Braven’s regional and organizational health dashboards and other department-specific dashboards to monitor KPIs.
• Support the planning and facilitation of two leadership bodies at Braven: Central Leads (c-suite direct reports of the CEO) and One Braven (broader leadership group). Example activities include planning and executing stepbacks, maintaining the knowledge base for both, preparing agendas, and creating content.
• Facilitate, project manage, and lead aspects of multi-year and annual planning processes
• Provide ongoing thought partnership and data-driven decision support for the Alignment Team (Braven’s leadership team).

Director, Strategy

Operations

• Design, own, and continuously improve the infrastructure to prepare progress updates for stakeholders. Regular deliverables include but are not limited to:
• - Project managing and packaging quarterly progress-to-goal (PTG) memos for Braven’s national board, leadership, and staff
• - Drafting region-specific progress updates on priorities for regional board meetings
• - Preparing regular updates to Braven leadership and staff on organizational priorities and goals
• - Pull, analyze, and/or visualize data independently to support progress monitoring
• - Build relationships with relevant partners for this work (e.g., executive owners of priorities)
• - Establish expertise and serve as a thought partner on questions and situations related to org-wide progress monitoring
• Act as trusted liaison to the leaders of the Product, Systems, and External Affairs teams in changing the operating model for how they work together.
• Design and help execute a regular central team <> regional team feedback structure at the Alignment Team level (Braven’s leadership team)
• Support the Head of Insights & Strategy to lead two internal councils (Data Governance Council and AI Advisory Council) and one external council (Labor Market & Economic Advisory Council)
• Own the coordinated operational rhythm of the two halves of the team (Insights and Strategy), including annual planning and goal-setting, quarterly alignment, and weekly coordination
• Design and plan team stepbacks and other meetings in support of the Head of Insights & Strategy and the Senior Director of Insights, from creating the agenda through post-meeting follow-up
• Own knowledge management for the Strategy half of the team, maintaining shared and organized documentation and ensuring process clarity
• Lead or support capacity-building and systems/process-building projects for primarily the Strategy half of the team
• For all of the above responsibilities, use AI in responsible, smart, and human-valuing ways to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your work.

Associate Director, Strategic Operations

Project Manager

• Support, manage, and execute the life-cycle of a portfolio of multiple short- and long-term cross-functional projects, ensuring excellence in all aspects of service delivery (85%)
• Manage end-to-end operational and tactical aspects of cross-functional projects of varying size, scope, technical level, organizational impact, and risk.
• Create and maintain quality project documentation and other assets, including the project charter, project schedule, and lessons learned.
• Evaluate assigned projects and plans utilizing the Agile methodology and Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
• Identify and gain agreement on project requirements, objectives, scope, timing, and resources with organizational stakeholders.
• Effectively communicate and consult with product owners, product managers, project sponsors, and project contributors to ensure consistency and alignment on the project methodologies for successful project delivery.
• Collaborate closely with product owners, Program Managers, and other subteam leads to understand their needs, prioritize work effectively, and evaluate and resolve conflicts to produce successful outcomes.
• Manage the project backlog and develop new user stories in collaboration with the product owner.
• Facilitate project meetings and regularly communicate project status to stakeholders both within and beyond the project team.
• Collaborate with teammates within and across projects to identify project risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Identify and manage project dependencies to ensure timely project completion.
• Develop, strengthen, and cultivate effective working relationships with project sponsors and teams to ensure cross-team communication, transparency, consistency, and successful achievement of project goals and outcomes.
• Communicate project status, risks, and issues to all stakeholders, including Braven leadership, in a clear and concise manner.
• Ensure timely completion of project deliverables and milestones, and overall project success with respect to stakeholder satisfaction and project quality.
• Contribute to tasks within the scope of the projects, as assigned.
• Contribute to the development of the Braven Project Management Centers of Excellence and the Product Team (15%)
• Collaborate with other Project Managers across the organization to align annual and quarterly prioritization and share and further codify Braven’s project management best practices.

Associate Director – Project Management

• Develop vision, strategy, and plans to effectively enroll and retain 500+ students a semester into the Braven course
• Use Salesforce and Google Suite to manage recruitment data, operations, and pipelines
• Analyze recruitment data weekly to inform recruiting and partner support strategy
• Organize and support recruitment presentations and materials
• Host recruitment events in order to source prospective students
• Recruit and manage a team of student interns and volunteers
• Support the cultivation and management of BravenX nonprofit stakeholders who act as the pipeline for Fellow recruitment
• Manage and provide support to stakeholders in order to support them in reaching their individual Fellow enrollment goals
• Assess the strategies employed and make informed improvements based on quantitative, qualitative, and anecdotal data gathered
• Share design input and feedback with Braven’s External Affairs team on marketing materials
• Collect and share compelling stories with the Communications Team and External Affairs Team
• Support the Social Media and Marketing Committee
• Develop a social media recruitment strategy with the Communications and Recruitment interns
• Participate in individual annual and quarterly planning and all-team events
• Recruit, hire, onboard, and manage part-time student interns
• Recruit and train student volunteers known as Braven Ambassadors
• Other duties as assigned

Recruitment Associate

• Develop vision, strategy, and plans to effectively enroll and retain 500+ students a semester into the Braven course
• Use Salesforce and Google Suite to manage recruitment data, operations, and pipelines
• Analyze recruitment data weekly to inform recruiting and partner support strategy
• Organize and support recruitment presentations and materials
• Host recruitment events in order to source prospective students
• Recruit and manage a team of student interns and volunteers
• Support the cultivation and management of BravenX nonprofit stakeholders who act as the pipeline for Fellow recruitment (national and regional college access organizations, K12 alumni programs, small universities/colleges, etc.)
• Manage and provide support to stakeholders in order to support them in reaching their individual Fellow enrollment goals (weekly progress-to-goal updates, brainstorming new tactics, holding recruitment check-in meetings, attending partner events, etc.)
• Assess the strategies employed and make informed improvements based on quantitative, qualitative, and anecdotal data gathered to present to key stakeholders.
• Share design input and feedback with Braven’s External Affairs team on marketing materials
• Collect and share compelling stories with the Communications Team and External Affairs Team
• Support the Social Media and Marketing Committee
• Develop a social media recruitment strategy with the Communications and Recruitment interns
• Participate in individual annual and quarterly planning and all-team events
• Recruit, hire, onboard, and manage part-time student interns
• Recruit and train student volunteers known as Braven Ambassadors
• Other duties as assigned