Associate Director, Workforce Strategy

Role Overview

• 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