Director, Transformation and Strategy
About the role
The Director, Transformation and Strategy will lead the strategic initiatives aimed at transforming Braven's operations and enhancing its impact. This role will be pivotal in setting the multi-year strategy for key pilot initiatives, building and maintaining the business case for these initiatives, and ensuring that they are scalable and sustainable.
Responsibilities
Set Strategy and Own the Business Case (40%): Develop and own Braven's multi-year strategy for key pilot initiatives, synthesizing insights from program delivery, partner relationships, financial modeling, and student outcome data into a coherent, evidence-based framework. Build and maintain the business case for key pilot initiatives as a scalable Braven offering, model unit economics, cost per student, and revenue potential across partner types, and translate findings into recommendations for Braven leadership and, where appropriate, external stakeholders.
Deliver Program Outcomes (35%): Execute pilots, launching a suite of programming at initial partner sites, and assess what's working and build a clear framework for what can be replicated versus what needs to be redesigned for each new context, culture, and student population. Define what should be consistent across pilot contexts and what must be adapted, honoring institutional differences while staying true to our model and principles.
Drive Organizational Learning and Operations (25%): Design and run a data collection campaign to capture key outcomes, build the forms, trackers, and processes that make data collection feel easy for stakeholders, and document learnings from each launch in a way that makes the next one faster and smarter and we add to our institutional knowledge base.
Requirements
Minimum Requirements: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent, 7+ years of strong track record of managing multiple complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives and leading others to outcomes - including building or launching a new program, function, or business line from the ground up, track record of operating in ambiguous environments and creating structure where little exists, requiring constant iteration and resourcefulness.
Preferred Qualifications: Exceptional ability to collaborate and work in cross-functional teams, strong written and verbal communication skills, exceptional ability to synthesize information, identify what should stay consistent, and where adjustments are needed due to various contexts, demonstrated ability to move between strategic altitude and hands-on execution, demonstrated ability to influence and drive alignment across senior stakeholders — including organizational leadership — without formal authority, strong financial acumen, experience building business cases, modeling unit economics, and translating financial analysis into strategic recommendations for senior leaders, experience in the education or nonprofit sector, fluency in Asana, Trello, Salesforce, and Claude, Zoom, and Slack, genuine appreciation for and enjoyment of the dynamic, fast-paced energy of a college campus, coupled with an ability to connect authentically with diverse stakeholders, ranging from students to university leadership, 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.