Head of Post Course Strategy

About the role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Head of Post Course Strategy Execution who will build the strategic and operational infrastructure that drives strong career outcomes for Fellows after they complete the Accelerator.

Responsibilities

• Own Post-Accelerator Outcomes and Strategy
• Lead and develop the team responsible for Braven's centrally-run post-Accelerator programs
• Lead Central PAF Programming
• Build and Steward the Cross-Functional Operating Model
• Partner with Regional Teams Across the Network
• Lead the Team and Shape Post-Accelerator Program Strategy

Requirements

• Minimum Requirements
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of professional experience, with at least 3 years in a role that involved strategy development, program design, or organizational leadership
• 3+ years of people management experience, including experience developing and holding direct reports accountable to outcomes
• Demonstrated experience working in or designing programs that support workforce development, career outcomes, or post-program student support
• Experience influencing across teams or functions without direct authority, such as in a cross-functional or multi-site environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in or with a nonprofit, education, or workforce development organization serving first-generation college students or communities historically underrepresented in professional careers
• Comfort building structure and accountability systems while also executing, you can hold strategy and day-to-day delivery at the same time
• Track record of cross team and organization collaboration
• Track record of translating high-level strategic direction into clear, actionable goals and accountability structures for a team
• Experience working with or through regional or local teams in a multi-site organization, particularly in a role that required influencing without formal authority
• Comfort designing or deploying programming that reaches people at scale through a mix of live, asynchronous, and technology-enabled approaches, you understand that impact at scale requires thinking beyond the room, and you bring curiosity and creativity to how interventions reach the most Fellows most effectively
• Comfort with ambiguity and a growth orientation toward data, you don't need perfect information to make progress, and you actively build toward more rigorous evidence over time
• Strong communicator across levels and functions, able to translate between strategy and execution, between central and regional, and between different levels of the organization
• Experience with innovation and ongoing evolution of product experiences and the ability to be nimble in orde