Associate, Employer Partnerships

About the role

This individual will lead the recruitment of thousands of volunteers from our employer partners. As a member of the Employer Partnerships team, you will build and scale systems that enable Braven to recruit 6,000+ volunteers over the next two years, while also contributing to the team's broader efforts across fundraising, employer stewardship, and student-facing programs.

Responsibilities

• Partner Research, Communications, and Stewardship (40%)
  • Support Braven's Employer Partnerships strategy by researching prospects, surveying the changing employer landscape across industries and sectors, and staying on top of and circulating trends and news
  • Ensure the Employer Partnership Team has the materials and resources needed to cultivate and effectively manage 75 - 150 employer partnerships by crafting persuasive presentations and drafting communications that motivate action across a portfolio of new and existing employer partners
  • Provide hands-on support to Employer Partnership Directors and Head of Employer Partnerships managing Braven's top-tier accounts, especially for student-facing events and key partner engagements
  • Collaborate with Braven's marketing team to design compelling materials that elevate Braven's value proposition for both partners and volunteers
  • Triage and manage the partnerships inbox, ensuring timely, thoughtful responses to partner inquiries and requests
• Team Operations and Systems (40%)
  • Elevate the operational excellence of the Employer Partnerships Team by designing and refining systems, processes, and tools that support scale and make impact possible
  • Facilitate weekly team meetings and project manage follow-through on internal and external priorities - including meeting prep and follow-up, regional team coordination, pipeline review, and internal communication
  • Support Head of Employer Partnerships in preparing for check-ins, tactical meetings, and ensuring we are meeting our goals and KPIs
  • Manage and maintain high-quality data across accounts, contacts, meetings, and engagements in Braven's CRM, ensuring accuracy and accountability
  • Steward partner relationships through thoughtful campaigns - like thank-you efforts, recognition in Braven's impact reports, and donor acknowledgment letters
  • Oversee logistics and project management for bi-annual Braven Employer Council meetings
  • Collaborate with the Data Insights and Data Operations teams to create and improve dashboards that help the team use data to drive decisions
  • Create and maintain a centralized resource hub to ensure internal stakeholders have easy access to the materials and information they need to engage partners effectively
• Engage Employer Partners in Volunteer Recruitment (20%)
  • Help project manage 100+ volunteer referral points of contact across employer partners in close collaboration with Braven's Employer Partnerships Directors, using email campaigns as a primary strategy to engage and mobilize volunteers at scale
  • Deliver operational excellence - using tools like mail merges, CRMs, Tableau dashboards, trackers, calendars, and project plans to execute large-scale, high-stakes, deadline-driven recruitment campaigns efficiently and effectively
  • Monitor data and performance in real time, using insights to refine strategies and drive continuous improvement

Requirements

• Minimum Requirements: 3-5 years of program management, project management, partnership management experience or related experience with a track record of achieving ambitious outcomes and building efficient systems
• Bachelor's degree
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills
• Highly-developed attention to detail, systems, and customer service
• A builder's mindset: you bring energy and creativity to building systems from the ground up, pressure testing them, and iterating to improve efficiency and impact
• Comfort making sense of complex data and using it to develop tailored strategies, clear priorities, and actionable next steps
• Thrives in ambiguity and finds joy in collaborating deeply with others and being a part of a rapidly growing organization
• Learns quickly and manages large volumes of feedback on a regular basis
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams
• Proficiency in Salesforce, Jira, Google Sheets, and generative AI tools, or similar systems
• Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others
• Exemplification of Braven's core values

Qualifications

• Preferred Qualifications: Bachelor's degree, 3-5 years of program management, project management, partnership management experience or related experience with a track record of achieving ambitious outcomes and building efficient systems, Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, Exceptional organizational and project management skills, Highly-developed attention to detail, systems, and customer service, A builder's mindset: you bring energy and creativity to building systems from the ground up, pressure testing them, and iterating to improve efficiency and impact, Comfort making sense of complex data and using it to develop tailored strategies, clear priorities, and actionable next steps, Thrives in ambiguity and finds joy in collaborating deeply with others and being a part of a rapidly growing organization, Learns quickly and manages large volumes of feedback on a regular basis, Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams, Proficiency in Salesforce, Jira, Google Sheets, and generative AI tools, or similar systems, Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others, Exemplification of Braven's core values