Senior Director, Communications & Marketing

Braven • New York, NY

33d • Hybrid

About The Position

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Senior Director of Communications & Marketing who will play a pivotal role in leading organizational efforts to be the premier thought leader in the college-to-career space. We’re looking for someone who is an extraordinary and groundbreaking storyteller across channels, from press to digital and from video to speeches. This individual will lead a communications and marketing team responsible for shaping and stewarding a brand grounded in excellence. Individually, you will create the annual communications and marketing strategy, lead major external projects–from strategically pushing out new site announcements to impact reports to insights papers–and work with partners to elevate the Braven brand. As a member of the External Affairs team, you will lead a 5-7 person team as well as a team of 3-5 contractors responsible for external national and regional communications and marketing (media, speaking engagements, social media, video creation, events, etc), internal and CEO communications, as well as other communication and marketing requests/needs as they arrive in alignment with Braven’s brand. This role is on the External Affairs team and reports directly to the Chief External Affairs Officer.

Requirements

• Education: BS/BA or relevant experience
• Work Experience: 10+ years of relevant experience
• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Braven doesn’t offer employment visa sponsorship.

Nice To Haves

• You build inspiring visions and strategies that amplify and grow the brand and motivate others to action.
• You bring a network of contacts in the media.
• You go after ambitious and measurable goals with joy, action orientation, and perseverance.
• 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 exercise discretion and independent judgment in conversations with the press and other high-stakes audiences.
• You enjoy bringing together multiple perspectives to enhance your work and decisions.
• You are a constant learner when it comes to understanding the strongest brands out there.
• You continually reflect to improve, and actively create space for the receipt of upward feedback from individual contributors and managers.
• You exemplify Braven’s core values.

Responsibilities

• Set and socialize the goals and vision of Braven’s overall communications and marketing strategy (i.e., national, regional, new sites, internal, core customer, secondary customer strategies) in partnership with the Chief Executive Officer, Chief External Affairs Officer, Regional Executive Directors, and select central team leads.
• Support the integration of communication and brand strategies, including digital storytelling, video, press, speaking, and awards, etc strategies across the enterpris.e
• Gather, interpret, and synthesize quantitative and qualitative data to define patterns and continuously strengthen our approach to storytelling.
• Create and manage efficient and smart systems, infrastructure and tools to track and report on communications & marketing progress and media stakeholder management.
• Lead org-wide learning and development related to Braven's brand and communications for national and regional staff, including old and new members.
• Oversee the communications stream of change management efforts led by the Associate Director, Internal Communication.s
• Bring a network of media relationships and execute media activities that secure high-profile placements across relevant national media outlets and platforms to ensure a drumbeat of high-profile national and local press placements that further understanding of the challenge Braven is working to address and Braven’s impact
• Oversee, play a heavy hand in writing/ideating, and help to place speeches, op-eds, and other statements on behalf of executive and regional leadership
• Oversee and execute on major brand moments for the organizatio,n including the release of impact reports, new site launches, etc
• Project manage CEO's book project
• Effectively coach 5-7 full-time communication staff members to become the strongest version of themselves, aligned to the goals of their role and their professional aspirations, as well as meet organizational brand goals.
• This includes effectively overseeing and managing the team that runs point on: events, regional communications strategies and execution, CEO communications strategy and execution, internal communications, Fellow and Volunteer comms, Social, Video, and Google ads, SEO optimization
• Manage a team of 3-5 contractors in the areas of video, web design, graphic design, etc.
• Coordinate with regional teams to understand opportunities and navigate varying regional markets
• Other duties as assigned

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees