Remote Senior Director

Summary

Join Jobs for the Future (JFF) as we launch a new Center for Career Navigation, mobilizing the field around a bold vision for building the bridge from learning to work for Gen Z. We're seeking a Senior Director to support the development, refinement, and execution of JFF's thought leadership and strategy to build this bridge.

Requirements

• Bring a track record of leadership in young adult (16 – 24-year-olds) talent development at the national level
• Bring significant experience and are a deep subject matter expert in the career navigation space
• Have developed really strong relationships with funders, clients, and partners that have mobilized them towards action
• Demonstrate effective written and verbal communication skills with experience serving as an external face for your organization
• Bring demonstrated capacity to conceptualize, plan, launch, manage multiple complex initiatives simultaneously with clear outcomes and accountability measures
• Understand and demonstrate equity-centered and inclusive analysis and practice in the way you develop relationships, steward partnerships, and design initiatives
• Excel working collaboratively with a diverse range of decision-makers and have a proven ability to motivate, inspire colleagues and partners and produce exceptional outcomes
• Demonstrate a growth mindset with the ability to create and maintain standards of high performance and accountability, and foster innovation, continuous learning, and improvement

Responsibilities

• Advance the Center’s vision and strategy through thought leadership
• Contribute to the strategic development of the Center, inclusive of the research, policy, and learning agendas
• Support or lead initiatives to raise JFF’s visibility among key stakeholders and influencers
• Collaborate as a subject matter expert on topics related to career navigation and postsecondary education and training for Gen Z
• Contribute to the Center’s and JFF’s thought leadership in the field at conferences, convenings, working groups and advisory panels
• Translate research into actionable insights that mobilize the field
• Support the building, scaling, and sustainability of the Center’s work
• Partner with others on the Center and the Development Team to pursue partnership, fundraising, and/or business development opportunities
• Cultivate and nourish relationships with funders, clients, and partners creating an environment of collaboration, cooperation and mobilization towards action
• Lead operational improvement initiatives to increase quality, value and efficiency of the Center’s work
• Partner with the JFF Markets/Networks team to tailor and execute JFF’s networks strategy focused on Career Navigation
• Deliver powerful results through leadership and execution of multiple, complex projects and programs
• Drive the overall performance of a portfolio of work, including sponsorship, oversight, and leading of cross-functional projects
• Lead and execute key initiatives, in close partnership with the Center VP, members of our team and other leaders across JFF’s centers and practices
• Propose and implement high-impact ideas and creative solutions to accelerate the CCN’s goals
• In partnership with the VP, allocate resources and manage priorities effectively to keep teams focused on results

Benefits

• Gratifying work experience
• Competitive salaries
• Comprehensive benefits program that includes flexibility and choice as core values in order to support people wherever they are in their lives and careers
• Annual home office stipend