Director, Regional Success

Job Title : Director, Regional Success

Team : Regional Success

Location : Hybrid in Chicago (IL), New York City (NYC)  and Newark (NJ)

Employment Type : Full-time

FLSA Classification : Exempt

Start Date : ASAP

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 partner 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.

About the Role

To achieve its goal of serving 80,000–100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a Director, Regional Success, who will design and deliver strategic learning and enablement experiences that empower regional team members to succeed in their work with Fellows and partners. This role leads work across central and regional workstreams that impact the entire organization, ensuring that all deliverables and outcomes are standalone outputs that directly deliver to organizational goals.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Regional Success, you will have strategic ownership of Braven’s Regional Success enablement program—equipping diverse regional roles, from Executive Directors to Operations Coordinators, with the tools, insights, and skills to excel. Your scope will include designing best-in-class hiring resources, leading comprehensive onboarding, serving as a Learning Management System administrator, defining and tracking enablement program KPIs, and delivering end-to-end training experiences that align with every stage of the course delivery journey.

As part of the Regional Success team, you will play a critical role in Braven’s internal service engine : a function dedicated to removing barriers, codifying best practices, and fostering the conditions necessary for regions to operate with excellence. By codifying and amplifying effective practices across sites, you will enable Braven to scale impact nationally while remaining responsive to local needs.

This role is on the Regional Success team and reports directly to the Senior Director, Regional Success.

What You’ll Do

Learning Strategy & Enablement (35%)

• Engage leaders in bidirectional consultation : communicate your strategic vision for enablement while soliciting their input and recommendations, ensuring that learning plans are both aligned to Braven’s organizational goals and responsive to staff development needs.
• Skillfully set strategy for projects or initiatives and lead projects or initiatives from end-to-end, overseeing the design, development, and execution of the comprehensive Learning and Design (L&D)experience for all regional roles.
• Conduct initial and ongoing needs assessments and skills gap analyses to recommend targeted interventions.
• Responsible for identifying improvements in and meaningfully influencing strategic direction for targeted implementation support for new regions during critical start-up and launch phases to ensure program fidelity and team readiness.
• Collaborate with the team to evaluate current implementation tools and resources for new sites, identify areas of need, and develop new materials or updates to ensure regional teams have the necessary resources to deliver programs effectively.

Instructional Design & Content Development (30%)

Facilitation & Delivery (20%)

Enablement Program Ops Management & Evaluation (15%)

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

Application & Interview Process

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

Benefits

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 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 $83,600-$104,400 in Chicago, and $92,000-$114,900 in Newark and New York. 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 : Chicago, New York City, 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 the 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.