Braven

Associate Director – Career Communities

Braven

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Atlanta • Illinois, New Jersey, New York • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $79,200 - $99,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Build a scope & sequence of career exposure, skill-building, and community events for students in the Business and Arts & Media Communities based on research-backed insights
  • Design and execute events, often in partnership with employers, that lead to strong student outcomes and engagement
  • Co-lead the Ready to Launch Bootcamp, a program for graduating seniors, to increase their self-confidence and efficacy in their job search
  • Improve programming throughout the year by leveraging insights from quantitative data and conducting student focus groups and interviews
  • Collaborate with other Associate Directors, Career Communities, and cross-functionally across the organization to secure employer partner guests and design well-attended, best-in-class events
  • Determine the best strategies in support of strong student outcomes and experiences through conducting and synthesizing user research, observations, labor market trends, and feedback
  • Lead collaborative and cross-functional proposal and prioritization processes to determine how Career Communities need to evolve to remain relevant and resonant
  • Internalize Braven’s research base and logic model and ensure all designs align, adjusting course due to new research insights as needed
  • Create a bi-weekly newsletter for students in your communities, which directs them to relevant internships and jobs, events, and resources
  • Collaborate cross-functionally on student recruitment efforts to ensure high attendance at planned events and work strategically to increase engagement
  • Facilitate student engagement in each Career Community’s virtual community spaces
  • Manage a student intern to support the virtual communities and the bi-weekly newsletter
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 5+ years of work experience in the related field
  • An entrepreneurial, strategic, and results-driven approach to program design and execution.
  • Ability to create, own, and execute a strategic plan that connects ideas to outcomes in program design, implementation, and ongoing iteration
  • Experience using stakeholder data to uncover insights, recommend solutions, and test new ideas
  • A ‘roll up the sleeves’ attitude, ability, and interest in managing the myriad details associated with external event programming
  • Confidence and competence in public speaking and presentations
  • Anticipate problems and collaboratively propose and tackle solutions
  • Experience working with young adults and/or college students.
  • 5+ years of experience in one or more of the following areas: group facilitation, instruction, or advising (e.g., student services or young adult development)
  • Knowledge of entry-level hiring processes and best practices for landing strong postgraduate jobs.
  • Exemplary verbal and written communication skills as well as deep listening ability.
  • Organization-wide project management with complex workstreams, managing complex decision making processes, including stakeholders with diverse needs and interests, and laterally managing team leads.
  • Exceptional relationship building skills, enabling you to build trust quickly and collaborate across management levels, internal and external relationships as well as across dimensions of identity
  • Balanced perspective that enables one to effectively prioritize levels of urgency and regulate emotions, along with helping others do the same when required
  • Experience leading and managing in complex environments during times of growth and employing change management skills, including but not limited to:
  • Experience making decisions with speed, agility, and common sense, while identifying and engaging key stakeholders appropriately
  • Strong organization skills, tracking, and managing big picture ideas as well as key details
  • Exemplification of Braven’s core values.
  • 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 week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
program designevent executiondata analysisuser researchstakeholder engagementgroup facilitationinstructionadvisingproject managementchange management
Soft skills
strategic thinkingresults-drivenpublic speakingproblem-solvingcommunicationrelationship buildingorganizationcollaborationemotional regulationadaptability