Strategic Director, External Communications
American Cancer Society
Salary
💰 $134,800 - $168,500 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Spring
About the role
- 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.
- Serve as liaison between central teams and HEP to ensure fit with local student needs and campus culture; provide feedback to central teams for continuous improvement.
- Assess data continuously and ensure students are on track to graduate and secure strong jobs; partner with Product team to develop supports and interventions to achieve student jobs outcomes.
- Participate in organization-wide efforts to drive program model strategy and recommend changes as needed.
- 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 the Rutgers-Newark team, shadowing the Braven Accelerator, becoming a Leadership Coach, and other strategies.
- 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 HEP stakeholders to integrate Braven into the campus career ecosystem and ensure partnership goals and agreements are upheld.
- Act as the “mayor” of the local HEP, owning local relationships and the campaign manager running local campaigns on campus.
- Build a collaborative team culture committed to achieving excellence, meeting site goals, and living out Braven core values.
- Co-create strategy in partnership with the ED for the HEP site and drive stakeholders towards the shared vision.
- Utilize local context and assets to design overarching strategy that brings the right programmatic and enrollment supports on campus.
- Set goals and key performance indicators for the HEP that drive scale and strong first opportunity outcomes among Fellows and align with Braven’s priorities.
- Lead and manage the Program Staff, provide organization-wide leadership within the One Braven Group, and steward Braven’s Core Values.
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
- Demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion
- Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population
- Authorized to work in the U.S.
- Braven doesn’t offer employment visa sponsorship
