Associate Director, Workforce Strategy

Braven•San Jose, CA

1d•$96,600 - $120,700•Hybrid

About The Position

Braven is a national nonprofit that prepares promising college students to secure a strong first opportunity after college graduation through a career-accelerating program. We work with higher education and employer partners to offer a life-changing experience that begins with a semester-long course for college students, followed by support that lasts through graduation. Together, our ambition is to help rebuild the middle class and revitalize the American Dream. To learn more, take a look at Braven’s Jobs Report . In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring an Associate Director, Workforce Strategy, who will support students towards strong post-college career outcomes. As a member of the San Jose State University (SJSU) team, you will serve as a strategic career coach to students attending SJSU who have completed the Braven Career and Leadership Accelerator Course (the Accelerator). This role has the opportunity to accelerate Braven’s regional and national impact. This role is on the Regional Bay Area team and reports directly to the Senior Director.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
At least 5 years of experience supporting, coaching, or advising college students
Authorized to work in the U.S.

Nice To Haves

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.
Please know that no one ever meets 100% of the preferred qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

Braven offers competitive base salaries based on the midpoint of the market among not-for-profit organizations of similar size, with opportunities for salary growth over time.
We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external equity seriously.
Given our commitment to equity, Braven does not negotiate salary offers; instead, each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking.
Starting salary within the range is determined by role scope and qualifications, with new hires starting at the lower end to allow for growth with performance.
Braven does not base compensation on individual candidate salary expectations and is committed to maintaining internal equity.
The salary ranges, by geographic market, for this role are set forth $96,600- $120,700.
This is based on a 50-hour work week at an hourly rate.
This is a full-time, regular, non-exempt, and benefits eligible position where you will be working at 100% capacity.
Braven also provides competitive, comprehensive benefits, recognition, and career development.
While Braven reserves the right to change benefits at any time, current benefits include:
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