Associate, New Site Development

Job Description

Job Description

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring an Associate of New Site Development to help cultivate and project manage the new higher education partnerships that will help us reach those goals. As a member of the New Sites team, you will help develop new regions and new higher education partnerships within existing regions, project manage all new launches during the cultivation and negotiation stages, and help build strategies, systems, and tools to improve the efficiency and efficacy of our work.

This role is on the External Affairs team and reports directly to the Head of New Site Development .

What You’ll Do

Project manage new higher education partnerships (55%)

• Project manage all new site launches both within the region and in new regions, including the creation and management of our launch templates, preparation of agendas, communications, and collateral for each meeting, coordination of bi-monthly meetings with schools as well as with internal teams who join, and tracking the to-do list for each partnership.
• Communicate and coordinate directly with external prospective partners regarding agendas, meeting notes, and next steps, as well as participate in meetings with those partners.
• Lead “look ahead, look back” meetings with the Head of New Site Development to ensure adequate preparation and follow-up from meetings.
• Review, edit, and provide thought partnership on Letters of Intent and Memorandums of Understanding with the General Counsel and Head of New Site Development to help ensure clear terms and responsibilities within contracts.
• Support new site-related events by coordinating speakers, helping with talking points, and creating / reviewing invitation lists.
• Update Salesforce customer relationship management tool.

Research of prospective partnerships (30%)

Strengthening Systems and Tools (10%)

Other duties as assigned (5%)

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Preferred Qualifications

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

Additional Requirements

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 lower end of the range, as Braven compensates based on the requirements and scope of the role rather than years of experience or prior salary, allowing for growth with performance and maintaining internal equity. The salary ranges, by geographic market, for this role are set forth $54,000-$67,500 in Atlanta, $56,900-$71,100 in Chicago, $62,700-$78,300 in New York and Newark, NJ. 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 :

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 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.