Associate Director, Workforce Strategy

Job Title:

Associate Director, Workforce Strategy

Team:
Greater Boston

Location:

In-Person in Boston(MA)

Employment Type:

Full-time

Start Date:

October 2025

Braven is a national nonprofit that prepares promising college students to secure a strong first opportunity after college graduation through a career-accelerating program.

We work with higher education and employer partners to offer a life-changing experience that begins with a semester-long course for college students followed by support that lasts through graduation.

Together, our ambition is to help rebuild the middle class and revitalize the American Dream.

To learn more, take a look at Braven’s Jobs Report.

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80, Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring an Associate Director, Workforce Strategy, who will support students towards strong post-college career outcomes. As a member of the Greater Boston team, you will serve as a strategic career coach to students attending our Higher Education Partner, who have completed the Braven Career and Leadership Accelerator Course (the Accelerator).

This role has the opportunity to accelerate Braven’s regional and national impact.

This role is part of the Greater Boston regional team and reports directly to the Senior Director of the Greater Boston Region.

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 the 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 to gain a comprehensive understanding of opportunities within the field 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 Boston
• Collaborate with Employer Partners to execute on skill development and networking opportunities/events
• Attend Learning Labs to begin Fellow engagement

A+ Team (5%)

• Manage a Workforce Development intern
• 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

Brand / Sustainability (5%)

• Collaborate cross-functionally to help build the Braven brand
• Represent Braven externally as needed

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years of experience working with college students

Preferred Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience in a manager 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 manager.
• You exemplify Braven’s core values.
• Your experiences have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student…