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Braven is hiring a Director, Employer Partnerships to lead corporate fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and partnership management within the Business & Finance sectors. The role involves cultivating new employer relationships, managing a portfolio of existing partners, and collaborating across teams to drive growth and deepen impact for college students through career acceleration programs.

Highlights

Manage a portfolio of 20+ business and finance sector partners, aiming for $3.5M+ in annual revenue.
Recruit over 700 volunteer mentors and coaches from corporate partners to support Fellows.
Cultivate new partnerships by researching prospects, crafting pitches, and negotiating agreements.
Develop strategic partnership plans and internal communications to align organizational efforts.
Collaborate with executive directors and internal teams to coordinate employer engagement strategies.
Oversee systems and infrastructure for partnership tracking and event leadership.
Raise Braven’s brand awareness through media, public speaking, and thought leadership efforts.
Requires 5-7 years of partnership management experience; 2+ years in nonprofit corporate partnerships preferred.
Bachelor’s degree required; strong communication, strategic thinking, and relationship-building skills essential.
Compensation ranges from approximately $87,200 to $126,400 annually based on location and experience, with comprehensive benefits including unlimited vacation, 401K match, health insurance, parental leave, and sabbatical.

Director, Employer Partnerships Full Description

Job Title: Director, Employer Partnerships

Team: External Affairs

Location: Hybrid in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), or Newark (NJ),

Employment Type: Full-Time

Start Date: ASAP

About Braven

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.

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven must continue to build on exciting momentum in one of the organization’s fastest growing workstreams: employer partnerships. In that effort, Braven is hiring a Director, Employer Partnerships, with a focus on Business & Finance Sectors to play a pivotal role in the organization’s corporate fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and Fellow outcomes. As a member of Braven’s national External Affairs team, you will be responsible for both cultivating new prospective partners in the business & finance sectors and managing a portfolio of 20+ existing partners.

This role is on the External Affairs team and will report to the Vice President, Employer Partnerships & Volunteer Recruitment.

What You’ll Do

Deepening Existing Relationships (50%)

Manage a portfolio of high-stakes, shared-value relationships with national business & finance industry partners, driving meaningful outcomes and growth in Braven's impact; annual goals include $3.5M+ in revenue
Develop and share internal memos that communicate the organization’s game plan for how we want to engage with each of the partners in your portfolio, then refine and iterate
Recruit 700+ volunteer mentors and coaches from the business & finance sector, mobilizing a network of leaders committed to expanding Fellows’ social capital
Ensure excellent customer service, key stakeholders ranging from executive sponsors to frontline points-of-contact
Use data and strategic storytelling to build and deepen relationships

Partnership Cultivation (20%)

Proactively research a wide array of potential partners, develop cultivation plans, then leverage a relational approach to building and sustaining meaningful connections
Use your strong communication skills to cultivate new partnerships, craft compelling pitches, negotiate strategic agreements, and renew existing partnerships
Engage Braven’s CEO and executive directors, setting behind-the-scenes vision and direction, then providing operational support to move partnerships forward toward successful outcomes

Strategy & Operations (25%)

Collaborate across internal departments, including with executive directors from Braven’s regions and multiple subject-matter experts, to align on a coordinated approach to shared-value relationships with your partners
Manage efficient and smart systems and infrastructure (tracking our partnership pipeline, creating prospect research, leading national events)
Other duties as assigned

Brand Awareness & Advocacy - 5%

Raise Braven’s brand awareness through thought-leadership, media, public speaking, and events

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Work Experience: 5-7 years experience managing partnerships with a track record of achieving ambitious outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

You have 2+ years of experience as account manager or 2+ years of experience leading corporate partnerships for a nonprofit, and you're passionate about using your skills to make a lasting impact.
You derive energy from relationship building with a variety of stakeholders, and have strong communication skills.
You’re a systems thinker at heart. You understand the power of networks and have strong intuition about how and when to involve key stakeholders in an opportunity or decision.
You’re excited to apply your strategic thinking, stellar storytelling, and organizational skills to support underrepresented college students through college and into strong jobs.
You plan 2-3 months out and set others up for success. You love timelines and meeting agendas, and ensuring everyone is up to speed.
You’re detail-oriented and have processes in place for checking and double checking your work, and it’s rare for you to make detail-related errors, either with words (e.g., spelling) or numbers (e.g., data analysis).
You’re proactive, like to solve problems, and love the intersection of creativity and strategy. When you don’t know the answer to something, you do the research to figure it out, and you’re always on the lookout for opportunities to expand your impact.
You appreciate constructive feedback and are eager to identify and discuss areas for growth, so that you can quickly learn and grow in them.
Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others.
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.

Please know that no one ever meets 100% of the qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.

Work Demands

Ability to work in-person in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), or Newark (NJ),
Travel: 6-12 times annually out of state for team retreats, events, and meetings.
Will be expected to work approximately 10-15 nights and/or weekends per year, coinciding with Braven events

Additional Requirements

Authorized to work in the U.S.
Braven doesn’t offer employment visa sponsorship

Application & Interview Process

While the interview process may vary slightly, the general process will be:

Phone screen with Talent Team member
Performance Task
Interview with Hiring Manager
Panel Interview with Key Partners
Reference Checks

Benefits

Compensation and Benefits

The salary for this position, which depends on prior work experience and our assessment of your demonstrated fit for the role, will likely be between $87,200-$108,900 in Atlanta, $92,000-$114,900 in Chicago, and $ 101,200-$126,400 in New York, NY or Newark, NJ. This is a full-time regular, exempt, and benefits eligible position where you will be working at 100% capacity. Braven offers 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. We believe in compensating staff members fairly in relation to each other, their qualifications, and their impact on behalf of the organization, and take internal and external equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, Braven does not negotiate salary offers; instead each salary offer is determined carefully using external and internal benchmarking. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the application process.

Braven also provides competitive, comprehensive benefits, recognition, and career development. While Braven reserves the right to change benefits at any time, current benefits include:

Unlimited vacation time in addition to org-wide holidays and week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year (this is a minimum of 19 days per year)
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

We gather in the office 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday) and work remotely 2 days a week (Monday and Friday). Therefore, this role requires teammates to live within commuting distance of one of our hubs: Atlanta, Chicago, or Newark. We believe in the magic, connection, and collaboration that happens when people work together face-to-face and we believe in giving people flexibility to focus, balance personal priorities, and save themselves two commutes per week.

Braven is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor. We encourage talented individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

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