Senior Director, New York

Job Title: Senior Director, New York

Team: New York Region 

Location: Hybrid in New York, (NYC) 

Employment Type: Full-time

Start Date: January 2026 

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

To achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Senior Director, New York, who will be responsible for the programmatic success of Braven at The Higher Education Partner (HEP). They are responsible for ensuring that the students who complete Braven’s course, the Accelerator at the HEP, are empowered with the skills, confidence, networks, and experiences to secure a strong first job or enroll in graduate school within 6 months of graduation. They maintain a positive and strong presence at the HEP and in the New York City community. 

The Senior Director will lead a team of 2-3 full-time employees and a team of part-time interns. The Senior Director, New York, will also be responsible for collaborating with our volunteer recruitment team and selecting volunteers. Together, you and the Executive Director (ED) will build and maintain a positive and strong presence with our school in the New York community.

This role is on the Regional New York team and reports directly to the Executive Director (ED) of New York.

What You’ll Do 

Deliver Site Outcomes (40%) 

• Oversee and ensure strong local program implementation at the HEP, including the pre-course, course, and post-course experience, to meet programmatic goals.
• Drive regionally owned program elements, including (but not limited to) local programming, learning lab implementation, data collection for job campaigns, etc.
• For the elements of the program that are delivered by the central team, serve as a check for school satisfaction and fit with local student needs and campus culture; provide feedback to the central teams in a spirit of partnership and continuous improvement.

Effectively Manage Stakeholders (40%)

• Develop and steward strong and formalized partnerships with the HEP’s leadership and faculty, employers, and community-based organizations that result in additional resources for our students and improvements to our program model.

• Cultivate and manage relationships with key HEP stakeholders that foster collaboration and result in a healthy partnership.
• Act as the “mayor” and “campaign manager” of Braven’s relationships with the HEP, deeply understanding the ecosystem, owning local relationships (faculty, professor of record, etc.), and running local campaigns on campus.
• Build a collaborative team culture of individuals committed to achieving excellence, meeting site goals, and living out Braven's core values.

Create Vision and Strategy for HEP (10%)

• Co-create a strategy in partnership with the ED for the HEP and drive stakeholders towards the shared vision.
• Utilize the deep understanding of the local context and assets available to knit together an overarching strategy that brings the right programmatic and structural enrollment support to the campus.
• Set goals and key performance indicators for the HEP that drive scale and strong first opportunity outcomes among Fellows and are aligned with Braven’s local and national priorities that are set in partnership with central teams.

Team Leadership and Management (10%)

• Lead and manage the Program Staff
• Provide organization-wide leadership within the One Braven Group (internal stakeholder group)
• Cultural Stewardship of Braven’s Core Values
• Other duties as assigned

Minimum Requirements 

• BS/BA
• At least 7 years of leadership experience with a verifiable track record of successful outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Prior work experience in higher education, 7-10 years in the non-profit field
• Technical Skills and Knowledge: Proficiency in Google Suite, Slack, and Jira 
• Experience in an early-stage environment launching an initiative, program, or team
• Success in managing and developing people and teams while creating and fostering a strong sense of culture
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, and the ability to facilitate strong partnerships across a range of stakeholders
• High degree of flexibility and adaptability, ability to excel in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment, and comfort with ambiguity
• Proven ability to create, operationalize, and manage project plans, meeting milestones and deadlines
• Data-driven mindset with a focus on using data and metrics to drive decisions and measure performance
• 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 preferred qualifications. If much of this describes you, we encourage you to apply.

Work Demands

• Ability to work in-person in the New York area
• Ability to travel occasionally to other Braven regions for team meetings
• Ability to occasionally work non-traditional hours in order to attend Texas cultivation events 
• Travel once/year to Braven’s All Team Retreat 

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

Compensation and Benefits

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.

New hires can expect a starting salary at the beginning of the range to allow room for growth with performance and so that Braven maintains internal equity. The salary ranges, by geographic market, for this role are set forth $134,800-$168,500. This is a full-time, regular, exempt, and benefits eligible position where you will be working at 100% capacity.  

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 three team-wide, week-long shutdowns in Spring, Summer, and Winter (this is a minimum of 24 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

Please note that Braven is firm in its compensation philosophy; therefore, only candidates who believe that our total rewards package matches what they are looking for in their next opportunity are encouraged to apply. 

Location

We gather in the office Tuesday through Thursday and work remotely on Monday and Friday.  Therefore, this role requires teammates to live within the New York City region. 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.