Braven, Inc

Job Title: Manager, Communications & Marketing

Location: Chicago (IL) preferred, Atlanta (GA), Newark (NJ), or New York City (NYC) 

Employment Type: Full-time

Start Date: May 2022

To Apply: Submit your application here. Send any questions to jobs@bebraven.org (applications submitted via email will not be accepted).

About Braven

We believe that the next generation of leaders will emerge from everywhere. We empower promising college students with the skills, confidence, experiences, and networks necessary to transition from college to strong first jobs, which lead to meaningful careers and lives of impact.  

Learn more about Braven’s impact: 

https://impactreport.bebraven.org/

https://jobsreport.bebraven.org/

Braven was named one of America’s Best Startup Employers 2022 by Forbes! We’re proud to be a nonprofit organization that values its employees and has always been committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace that mirrors our country.

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 40,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven must elevate awareness of the college-to-career challenge and its own brand, and inspire college students and volunteers to take action. In that effort, Braven is hiring a Manager, Communications & Marketing who will assist the Director, Communications & Marketing with implementing the organizational communication and marketing strategy. As a member of the Communications & Marketing team, you will own several responsibilities across owned, earned, and paid channels, including social media, email, and blog. This role will lead execution nationally and will support regional managers with their strategy to recruit new Fellows and volunteers for the Braven course. Across the organization, the manager will design marketing materials and social images for a variety of events and initiatives.

What You’ll Do: 

• Help create and implement annual marketing and communication plans at the national and regional levels alongside the Director of Communications & Marketing
• Build and send effective regional email campaigns that will inspire college students to sign up for the Braven course. 
• Manage marketing analytics (e.g. UTMs, Google Analytics, etc.) and support our website management team with tasks. 
• Develop and execute a robust and integrated social media strategy using Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Create assets, manage a social calendar, post and monitor progress toward goals using Hootsuite, and shift course using quantitative and qualitative insights.
• Assist Braven’s CEO by posting and commenting weekly to their Linkedin and Twitter accounts. 
• Design and maintain high-quality story-telling collateral as it relates to volunteer recruitment, employer partnerships, board member relations, and organizational needs (e.g. blog posts, videos, and other digital and print materials).
• Train and support a communications and marketing intern as well as regional managers with social media and email marketing.

Qualifications & Skills:

Braven is looking for a candidate who exemplifies Braven’s core values, is comfortable with ambiguity, is willing to roll up their sleeves and do what it takes to meet team goals and achieve impact, and welcomes constant feedback and learning. You are bringing experiences and strengths like these:

• 3-5 years of relevant experience, with a preference for communications or digital media experience in the education, government or nonprofit sector
• A proven ability to develop strategic communications, marketing and integrated social media plans
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills
• Design experience 
• Experience with (or appetite to learn) creating communication journeys through marketing platforms (Campaign Monitor, Pardot, Marketo, etc.)
• Ability to create and follow through on project plans with strong attention to detail and deadlines
• You are highly motivated, self-directed, results-oriented, data-driven, and curious
• You have a demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion
• Your experiences have informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population
• Bachelor's or equivalent degree required

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

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work in-person in Chicago (IL) preferred, Atlanta (GA),  Newark (NJ), or New York City (NYC)
• Ability to travel to quarterly retreats with the External Affairs team and potentially other events 
• Authorized to work in the U.S.
• Must be fully vaccinated and have received the Booster vaccination against COVID-19 and provide proof of such by the date of hire. Individuals may claim exemption from the vaccine requirement for medical or religious reasons. Exempted individuals will be subject to weekly testing if they engage in any in-person work activities.   

Compensation and Benefits

The salary for this position, which depends on prior work experience and our assessment of your demonstrated fit for the role, will likely be between $51,500-$64,400 in Chicago; $49,000-$61,200 in Atlanta; $55,700-$69,600 in Newark and New York City. 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. You will have an opportunity to discuss salary in more detail after you begin the application process.

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, week-long shutdowns in July and the end of the calendar year 
• Up to 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 
• A one month paid sabbatical after 4 years on staff

Location

When social distancing is not in place, we gather in the office three days a week. Therefore, we require teammates to live within commuting distance of one of our 4 hubs: Chicago, New York City, Newark, and Atlanta. Each teammate can use two flex days of their choosing per week to work remotely. 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. 

 

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 

At Braven, we are committed to attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining a diverse team. Braven operates in the context of our American culture, against the backdrop of systemic racism and oppression of marginalized people since our country’s founding. We are committed to assembling leaders at our organization who have emerged from everywhere, with a particular emphasis on those who share the racial and income backgrounds of our Fellows, and creating an inclusive culture that allows all teammates, of all experiences and identities, to thrive.  

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.