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For other positions, some roles may be based outside of our Denver office (as stated in the Job Title). Roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 28 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, KS, MA, MD, MI, MN, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, and WI. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.
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At Guild, we uphold our Core Values in everything we do. Our team emphasizes our Core Values in the following ways:

• Nurture A Learner's Mindset - using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and development areas
• Build Shared Success - building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Be an Owner - holding self and others accountable to meet commitments
• Create Belonging - recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to our company

Guild is building out a Community & Social Impact organization aimed at developing and leading a coalition of partners in the Guild ecosystem. Guild is a partnerships-led company, and one that often excels at bringing together employers and academic partners to solve critical challenges for the workforce. In this role, we'll be extending that partnership and convening power to build out and nurture our broader community of innovators who help us unlock opportunity for the American workforce.
Crafting a community of innovators is an important part of Guild's brand and long-term vision. In many ways Guild's nonprofit foundations, think tank, research and brand partners are key drivers of delivering our long term vision by elevating and advancing our work and providing opportunities for Guild to thrive as an iconic social impact company. This person will work alongside the leaders of our employer and academic partnerships teams – to identify our most impactful partnerships and opportunities.
As a Senior Community and Brand Partnerships Director, you will:

• Design engagement and content management strategy to advise and encourage our communities
• Partner with broad cross-functional team members (commercial & policy) on crafting a scalable and innovative process of engagement across Guild's ecosystem with an eye towards continuing to be a trusted voice in the social impact, CSR, corporate foundations and Gov't affairs organizations
• Help identify, power-map and prioritize a list of national foundation partnerships across organizations and corporate foundations that will support Community and cross-functional strategy
• Be responsible for handling a subset of those partners - including driving partnership strategy, identifying collaborative opportunities like reports, research and thought leadership
• Capture and present partner feedback to advise team strategy and initiatives. Problem-solve efficiently to troubleshoot, bring up, and resolve partner issues.
• Design and partner with Guild's Brand and Communications teams to build a content management and engagement strategy for our community including all advisors and innovators, as well as proactively connecting dots between our advisors and work within the business
• Deliver end-to-end partnership and events management to engage our community partners- collaborating with Events & Marketing, GTM, Gov't affairs, etc
• Lead cross-functional work with Analytics, Policy, and Finance (investor relations) teams to resolve outcomes and impact strategy, including where and who we want to partner with on refining mobility and ESG related metrics as well as partnering with our People Organization to align outcomes for our partners with Guild outcomes
• Support team to Identify, vet, and engage Brand (opportunistically) and Social Impact partners, that could serve as good organizations or funders for growing Guild's reach in the impact space - working to help craft "Good for Guild" solutions and opportunities
• Serve as key point of contact (SME) for external partnerships with non-profit entities, private sector organizations (such as CSR and Government Affairs teams), national foundations and other collaborators
• Help shape overall team strategy as a founding senior team member

You are a strong fit for this role if you have:

• Expertise and/or excitement about Guild's position at the intersection of education, economic mobility, career advancement, the future of work and the future of workers.
• The organizational skills to harness opportunities and get results through creative and engaging experiences - while also being able to work autonomously across partners
• Significant experience running external relationships and partnerships with executives at F500 companies, universities, governments and/or similar organizations
• A reputation as a highly cross-functional, low ego partner inside and outside of organizations
• The ability to fuel magic when you bring people together - a love of creating moments of creativity, joy and alignment through community
• A conscientious ability to create connections – a love of connecting dots between people, ecosystems, and opportunities
• Proven experience working with or in the CSR space, either in house at a corporation, or through an external organization/non profit
• Proven track record to design scalable operations and processes
• For Internal Hires - understanding of Guild's solution and interdependencies is a major plus

Additional pluses for this role include:

• Validated experience in partnership development and implementation of philanthropic initiatives across and within multiple sectors (public, private and nonprofit)
• Understanding of larger education and workforce development trends - strong market intelligence
• Deep knowledge and passion for education equity and opportunity creation
• Effective verbal communications skills and strong writing skills
• Ability to build from 0-1, and imagine opportunities that haven't existed before - while building the internal and external reason for why they should!

We feel passionately about equal pay for equal work, and transparency in compensation is one vehicle to achieve that. Total compensation for this role is market competitive, including a base salary range of $160,000- $220,000 as well as company stock options.
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At Guild, we unlock the talent and economic potential of America's workforce for employees and their companies. We partner with the nation's largest employers—including Walmart, Chipotle, Discover, Hilton, Macy's, Target, and The Walt Disney Company—to create cultures of opportunity that help them attract and retain top talent, while building the workforce of the future from within. By using our proprietary Career Opportunity Platform to develop education and learning programs that work in the real-world, thousands of employees at those companies have gained the skills, knowledge, and guidance they need to build a brighter future for themselves and their families—all without paying for tuition or career services on their own.
Guild is female-founded and a certified B Corp. The company has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2022 list, CNBC Disruptor50 list three years in a row, Inc. Best Led Companies list, Fast Co. World Changing Ideas list and the B Lab Best for the World list among many others.
Guild Education is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth

Guild requires COVID-19 vaccines for all employees and guests attending Guild events or entering Guild offices. As of February 1, 2022, we will be expanding our in-person vaccination requirement to include booster shots. We will be using both Clear's Digital Vaccine Card and state-sponsored vaccine passports to verify proof of vaccine. Accommodations or exceptions fcan be requested for medical or religious reasons.

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $160,000.00 - $220,000.00 per year

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