
Associate Director, Workforce Strategy
Braven
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $96,600 - $120,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Develop vision and strategy to support Fellows in securing internships and strong post-college career outcomes
- Manage progress-to-goals tracking/reporting for student internship/job attainment, including monthly dashboard updates and annual survey collection process
- Manage and analyze student-level and program data, as well as track engagement within centralized systems, to determine and implement student support interventions
- Lead annual Jobs Campaign to ensure graduates land a strong post-college career opportunity
- Provide strategic 1:1 career coaching for Fellows
- Build, cultivate, and steward relationships at SJSU to gain a comprehensive understanding of opportunities within the Bay Area region and beyond to refer students
- Develop and implement a strategy to build a regional Fellow community
- Create, plan, and execute events for Fellows to support community building, networking, and engagement
- Collaborate with the Career Communities team to promote continued career exploration and skills development for Fellows and to implement in-person workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Collaborate with Employer Partners to execute on skill development and networking opportunities/events
- Cultivate and engage PAF’s reestablish an alumni board
- Attend Learning Labs to begin Fellow engagement
- Manage a Workforce Development intern and/or coordinator
- Source Fellows to serve as interns and volunteers
- Support in the selection of PAFs to participate in Braven publications and events
- Participate in individual annual and quarterly planning and all team events
- Other duties as assigned
- Collaborate cross-functionally to help build the Braven brand
- Represent Braven externally as needed
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- At least 5 years of experience supporting, coaching, or advising college students
- You have 5+ years of experience in a manager or director-level role
- You have a track record of success in managing complex relationships and projects.
- You demonstrate a strong proficiency in early career coaching.
- You have experience in higher education or workforce strategy.
- You build inspiring visions and strategies that motivate others to action.
- You’re extremely detail-oriented and sweat the small stuff, while also not losing sight of the big picture.
- You build strong external and internal relationships with a variety of stakeholders and have significant experience tailoring your approach based on an understanding of the beliefs, motivations, and contexts of others.
- You enjoy bringing together multiple perspectives to enhance your work and decisions
- You continually reflect to improve, and actively create space for the receipt of upward feedback from individual contributors and managers
- Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others.
- 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 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data analysiscareer coachingproject managementevent planninggoal trackingsurvey collectioncommunity buildingrelationship managementworkforce developmentstrategic planning
Soft Skills
detail-orientedrelationship buildingmotivational leadershipcollaborationadaptabilityreflective practicecultural competencycommunicationstakeholder engagementteamwork
Certifications
Bachelor’s Degree