Director, Workforce Strategy - City College of New York

Job Title: Director, Workforce Strategy - City College of New York

Team: New York Region, City College of New York site

Location: In-Person in New York City (NYC)

Employment Type: Full Time

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Start Date: November 2023

About Braven

We believe that the next generation of leaders will emerge from everywhere. We empower promising college students with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact.

Learn more about Braven’s impact:

https://impactreport.bebraven.org/

https://jobsreport.bebraven.org/

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Director, Workforce Strategy to join our City College of New York (CCNY) team, who will support students towards strong post-college career outcomes. As a member of the CCNY team, you will serve as a strategic career coach to students attending CCNY, who have completed the 3-credit Braven Career and Leadership Accelerator Course. Our growth goals at CCNY will have us serving 900 students by the end of June 2024 and 1750 by the end of June 2025. This role has the opportunity to accelerate Braven’s regional and national impact.

This role is on the New York Region, City College of New York team and reports directly to the Regional Managing Director - The City College of New York.

What You’ll Do

Strategy and Career Coaching - 60%

• Develop vision and strategy to support Fellows in securing internships and strong jobs.
• Develop and implement strategy to build a regional Fellow community.
• 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 annual Jobs Campaign to ensure graduates land a strong post-college career opportunity.
• Provide strategic 1:1 career coaching for Fellows.
• Maintain a constant and comprehensive understanding of opportunities in the CCNY and Braven network in order to refer students to best-fit opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Career Communities team to promote continued career exploration and skills development for Fellows.

HEP Engagement 20%

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders at CCNY.
• Ground and develop expertise in CCNY’s ecosystem of student supports and offerings to refer Fellows accordingly.

Student Programming and Engagement - 10%

• Engage Fellows during the Accelerator course to introduce programming and support offered during and after the course.
• Create, plan, and execute events for Fellows to support community building, networking, and engagement.
• Support Director, Career Communities to implement in-person workshops in the NYC region.

A+ Team - 5%

• Manage a Workforce Development intern.
• Source Fellows to serve as interns and volunteers for the CCNY team.
• 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.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

• BS/BA or relevant experience
• 5+ years of experience working with college students

Preferred Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience in manager or director level 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 strategy that motivates 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