Associate Director, Workforce Strategy

About the role

Support students towards strong post-college career outcomes
Serve as a strategic career coach to students attending SJSU who have completed the Braven Career and Leadership Accelerator Course (the Accelerator)
Accelerate Braven's regional and national impact
Report to the Senior Director

Responsibilities

• Strategy and Career Coaching (55%):
  • 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
• Student Programming and Engagement (35%):
  • 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
• Management & Supervision (5%):
  • 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
• Brand / Sustainability (5%):
  • 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

Qualifications

• 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
• You exemplify Braven's core values
• You have 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

• 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
• 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)
• 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

Location

• Gather in the office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) and work remotely 2 days a week (Monday and Friday)
• This role requires teammates to live within commuting distance of San Jose

Pay

• $96,600 - $120,700

Schedule

• Full-time, regular, exempt, and benefits eligible position
• Working at 100% capacity