Part-Time Grader

Job Title: Grader

Team: Delaware State University Regional Team

Location: Remote from one of our current Braven operating states: GA, IL, DE, NY, NJ, DC

Employment Type:Temporary Part-time

Start Date: December 2024

Duration: December 2024 - May 2025 with the possibility of extension

Hours: 10 hours / Week (Hours may vary depending on heavier grading periods)

Hourly Rate: $15-$21.67 per hour depending on state

About Braven

Braven is a national nonprofit that prepares promising young people—many of whom are people of color, from low-income backgrounds, and the first in their families to attend college—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, we are helping to open up access to the American Promise, empowering a generation of leaders who mirror the diversity of our country.

To learn more, take a look at Braven’s Impact Report and Jobs Report.

About the Role

In order to achieve its ambition of serving 80,000-100,000 Fellows over the next decade, Braven is hiring a part-time Grader who will play a central role in supporting students (known in Braven as Fellows) toward success during the Accelerator. A Grader is the first line of support to a caseload of students in their academic mastery in the Braven Accelerator. The primary goal of Graders is ensuring their students are engaged and succeeding academically in the course.
This role is on the DSU (Delaware State University) team and reports directly to the Director of Program Success.

What You’ll Do 

• Grade assignments for an assigned group of students using rubrics and provide meaningful feedback.
• Support students who are flagged because of their grade, engagement, and/or other personal issues.
• Communicate to the Braven team, group facilitators (known in Braven as Leadership Coaches, or LCs), and students about students’ mastery, engagement, and upcoming deadlines.
• Attend one virtual class (known in Braven as ‘Learning Labs’) night per week (Tuesday and Wednesday from 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET or Thursday 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM ET) to build relationships with students, provide support and answer questions about upcoming assignments, observe cohorts, and potentially substitute for absent group facilitators/LCs (dependent on the region).
• Attend weekly Grader meetings and check-in 1:1 with the Grader Manager. 
• Hold one hour of virtual office hours per week.
• Support students who come with questions
• Proactively reach out to students who need more support
• Support students outside of office hours as needed.
• Deeply internalize Braven's instructional content such as modules, slide decks, assignments, and rubrics.
• Attend all live trainings and complete additional asynchronous trainings. Graders will complete one, 30-minute, asynchronous training per week during weeks 3 through 12 of the course. The goal of this training is to ensure all graders are scoring with the same norms and to get questions answered about how to grade each assignment.
• Serve as an ambassador for the Braven team on campus by serving on panels, sharing your experience with other campus stakeholders, etc., as time permits.

Requirements

Minimum Requirements 

• Prior experience using Google Suite (Drive, Docs, Sheets), Zoom, and LinkedIn is highly preferred
• Comfortability learning to navigate new tools such as Canvas, Speedgrader, and, if applicable, different systems used by our higher education partners
• You will need a laptop or desktop computer to participate in training sessions and attend Learning Labs as well as grade all assignments

Preferred Qualifications 

• Prior experience teaching or serving as a Teaching Assistant or similar role 
• Prior experience coaching students or adults 
• Professional work experience  
• Proficiency in a second language is a plus 
• Demonstrated commitment to equity and inclusion.
• Exemplification of Braven’s core values.
• Experience that has informed your belief in Braven’s mission and have prepared you to work with, or for, Braven’s student Fellow population.

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

• Work remotely from one of our current Braven operating states: GA, CA, IL, DE, NY, NJ, DC
• Required to attend evening class once a week from 6-8 pm CST

Additional Requirements

• Authorized to work in the U.S.

Application & Interview Process

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

• Performance Task  
• Interview with Hiring Manager
• Reference Checks

Location

This is a remote position and the person must live in one of our current Braven operating states: GA, IL, DE, NY, NJ, DC

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.