Associate, Employer Partnerships

• Steward and manage 100+ volunteer referral points of contact across employer partners in close collaboration with Braven’s Employer Partnerships Directors, with email campaigns as a primary strategy to engage and mobilize volunteers at scale.
• Ensure seamless communication and collaboration between the Volunteer Engagement team and the Employer Partnerships team by acting as the primary liaison between the two.
• Deliver operational excellence - using tools like mail merges, CRMs, Tableau dashboards, trackers, calendars, and project plans to execute large-scale, high-stakes, deadline-driven recruitment campaigns efficiently and effectively.
• Partner closely with Braven’s Employer Partnerships Directors to embed volunteer recruitment into broader partner engagement strategies.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Braven teammates who lead volunteer operations, marketing, communications, data, and technology to ensure a seamless and on-brand volunteer experience.
• Monitor data and performance in real time, using insights to refine strategies and drive continuous improvement.
• Facilitate info sessions for prospective volunteers.

• Elevate the operational excellence of the Employer Partnerships Team by designing and refining systems, processes, and tools that support scale.
• Facilitate weekly team meetings and project manage follow-through on internal and external priorities -  including meeting prep and follow-up, regional team coordination, and internal communication.
• Manage and maintain high-quality data across accounts, contacts, meetings, and engagements in Braven’s CRM, ensuring accuracy and accountability.
• Steward partner relationships through thoughtful campaigns - like thank-you efforts, recognition in Braven’s impact reports, and donor acknowledgment letters.
• Support the planning and execution of bi-annual Braven Employer Council meetings, overseeing logistics and project management.
• Collaborate with the Data Insights and Data Operations teams to create and improve dashboards that help the team use data to drive decisions.
• Maintain a centralized resource hub to ensure internal stakeholders have easy access to the materials and information they need to engage partners effectively.

• Support Braven’s Employer Partnerships strategy by researching prospects, crafting persuasive presentations, and drafting communications that motivate action across a portfolio of new and existing employer partners.
• Collaborate with Braven’s marketing team to design compelling materials that elevate Braven’s value proposition for both partners and volunteers.
• Triage and manage the partnerships inbox, ensuring timely, thoughtful responses to partner inquiries and requests.
• Provide hands-on support to Employer Partnership Directors managing Braven’s top-tier accounts, especially for student-facing events and key partner engagements.

• 3-5 years of program management, project management, partnership management experience or related experience with a track record of achieving ambitious outcomes and building efficient systems.

• Bachelor’s degree
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Exceptional organizational and project management skills
• Highly-developed attention to detail, systems, and customer service 
• A builder’s mindset: you bring energy and creativity to building systems from the ground up, pressure testing them, and iterating to improve efficiency and impact
• Comfort making sense of complex data and using it to develop tailored strategies, clear priorities, and actionable next steps
• Thrives in ambiguity and finds joy in collaborating deeply with others and being a part of a rapidly growing organization
• Learns quickly and manages large volumes of feedback on a regular basis
• Ability to work collaboratively with diverse teams
• Proficiency in Salesforce, Jira, Google Sheets, and generative AI tools, or similar systems
• Demonstrated commitment to building strong and welcoming cultures that help to develop others.
• Exemplification of Braven’s core values
• Experiences that have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have 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.

• Ability to work in-person in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Newark (NJ), or New York City (NY) 3 days per week
• Travel: 4-8 times annually out of state for team events.
• Occasional evening hours for work events and/or to ensure we hit key campaign deadlines

• Authorized to work in the U.S.

• Braven doesn’t offer employment visa sponsorship

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

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, Newark, or New York City. 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.