Senior Director, Hunter College

Job Title: Senior Director, Hunter College

Team: New York City Regional Team

Location: Hybrid in New York City

Employment Type: Full-time

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Start Date: January 2027

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 .

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Senior Director who will be responsible for the programmatic success of Braven at Hunter College (Hunter). They are responsible for ensuring that the students who complete Braven’s course at Hunter, the Accelerator, 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. The Senior Director will lead a team of 3 full-time employees and 1-2 part-time interns. They maintain a positive and strong presence at Hunter and in the New York City community.

This role is on the New York City regional team and reports directly to the Executive Director of New York.

What You’ll Do

Deliver Program Outcomes (40%)

- Shape a shared vision for Hunter in partnership with the Executive Director
- Own overall program implementation and performance at Hunter across recruitment, the course experience, and post-course supports, ensuring the program meets established goals and outcomes.
- Lead the program elements, including local programming and jobs campaign data collection, and partner with Braven’s Product and Central Accelerator teams on centrally owned elements, supports, and interventions needed to achieve program outcomes.
- For program elements delivered by other central teams, represent Hunter and the student perspective by monitoring fit and satisfaction, surfacing needs and gaps, and providing actionable feedback to strengthen delivery and outcomes.

Effectively Manage Stakeholders (40%)

- Develop and steward strong and formalized partnerships with Hunter’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 Hunter stakeholders that foster collaboration and result in a healthy partnership.
- Act as the “mayor” and “campaign manager” of Braven’s relationships with Hunter, deeply understanding the ecosystem, owning local relationships (faculty, professor of record, etc.), and running local campaigns on campus.

Team Leadership and Management (20%)

- Manage and develop a high-performing team of full-time employees, fostering an inclusive and supportive culture and modeling Braven’s core values and competencies
- Invest in team members’ growth through regular coaching and feedback, clear development plans, performance reviews, and structures that support ongoing learning and development
- Recruit, hire, and onboard strong talent as needed to meet team priorities
- Contribute to organization-wide strategy and decision-making, bringing insights from Hunter College and Fellows, and recommending changes that strengthen program impact and sustainability
- Lead effective team planning, including the design and facilitation of team stepbacks and retreats.

Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Work Demands

- Ability to work in-person in New York City 3 days per week
- Access to internet
- Travel between the NYC office and Hunter; ability to travel to Hunter’s campus (2x/per week at minimum)
- Ability to travel (3-4 times per year) to other Braven regions for team meetings and/or stepbacks
- Ability to work non-traditional evening hours (1-2x/per week) and to attend cultivation events in the region
- 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

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

Application & Interview Process

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

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

Benefits

Total Rewards

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

- Discretionary time off in addition to org-wide holidays and 2 week-long shutdowns in July and December. There is an additional week-long shutdown for Regional Staff in the Spring. (This is a minimum of 24 days per year)
- Braven supports your path to parenthood and beyond with $25,000 in lifetime Carrot benefits for fertility, family-building, and hormonal health
- 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
- Monthly $75 reimbursement for cell phone or internet
- Access to funding for continued career development

Compensation

Braven offers opportunities for salary growth over time. We believe in compensating staff members fairly relative to one another, their qualifications, and their impact on the organization, and we take internal and external equity seriously. Given our commitment to equity, Braven does not negotiate salary offers; instead, each offer is carefully determined using external and internal benchmarks.

The hiring range is determined by role scope, qualifications, and internal equity, with annual growth based on performance. Braven does not base compensation on individual candidate salary expectations and is committed to maintaining internal equity. The hiring ranges for this role by geographic market are set forth as $134,800-$144,900 in New York City. This is based on a 50-hour work week. This is a full-time, regular, exempt, and benefits-eligible position where you will be working at 100% capacity.

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

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 New York City and Hunter College. 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.