Managing Director, Middle School Career Exploration Hub

THE ROLE: Managing Director Middle School Career Exploration Hub

Were looking for a Managing Director Middle School Career Exploration Hub.

About the Middle School Career Exploration Impact Hub

Young people are not consistently taught how to explore their aptitudes or interests and how that could inform their future choices. There are limited exploration opportunities for young people in K12 and when opportunities are available they are inconsistent across geography quality and type. Exploration activities are often siloed from core academics and the broader scope and sequence/developmental stages of education.

Were launching the Middle School Career Exploration Impact Hub to change that.

The Middle School Career Exploration Impact Hub is a new national center of excellence dedicated to transforming how young people ages 11-14 engage in self-discovery and early career exploration. The Hub will focus on one of the most important and often overlooked developmental stages in a young persons journey: early adolescence.

The Middle School Career Exploration Impact Hub exists to answer a critical question: how can we help young adolescents better understand themselves and their future possibilities in ways that meaningfully influence their long-term educational and career trajectories To answer this question the Hub will identify design test evaluate and scale innovative approaches that help young people explore their interests strengths values identities and aspirations. We believe that when we foster the enabling conditions for young people to explore themselves their interests and their strengths they have the knowledge and confidence to make informed empowered decisions about the next step in their educational and career journey. By generating evidence supporting innovation and building partnerships across sectors the Explore Impact Hub aims to drive lasting systems change in middle school career exploration nationwide.

The Opportunity

Britebound seeks a visionary and collaborative Managing Director to launch and lead the Middle School Career Exploration Impact Hub.

This role presents a rare opportunity to shape a national initiative at the intersection of adolescent development education innovation and career readiness. The Managing Director will be responsible for establishing the Hubs strategic direction leading its team and operating model managing its portfolio of programs and serving as its primary external ambassador.

The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in early adolescent development with the leadership capabilities to build a high-impact organization. They are equally comfortable shaping long-term strategy cultivating partnerships overseeing research and evaluation efforts managing teams and budgets and influencing national conversations about youth development and career exploration.

The Managing Director reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer and works closely with Britebounds other Impact Hubs and executive leadership team.

What Youll Do:

Strategic Vision and Leadership

• Define and steward the Hubs strategic direction theory of change and long-term goals in partnership with Britebounds leadership and key stakeholders.
• Develop a rigorous framework for identifying designing and selecting initiatives that help young adolescents develop self-knowledge explore interests and build a foundation for future pathways.

• In collaboration with the Britebound research team stay at the leading edge of research on early adolescent development interest formation and the landscape of programs and experiences serving this age group.

• In collaboration with the Britebound policy team shape a policy agenda for how young learners are experiencing career exploration and self-identity both in school and during out-of-school time

Portfolio Development and Management

• Build and manage a diverse portfolio of initiatives from partnerships and early-stage pilots to scaling investments spanning a range of approaches and delivery contexts.
• Work with partners to strengthen program design define learning agendas and set measurable milestones.
• Apply clear decision-making frameworks for investing in continuing scaling or sunsetting initiatives based on evidence and learning.

Delivery Model & Design

• Investigate and determine the most effective mechanisms for delivering self-discovery and exploration experiences to young adolescents whether in school or through after-school and summer programs community-based organizations digital platforms employer and community partnerships or entirely new models.
• Design and test a range of delivery approaches (internally or in partnership with external organizations) remaining open to unconventional solutions and building the evidence base to understand which contexts and modalities work best for which young people.
• Where school-based delivery emerges as effective support partners in building that capacity but treat it as one option among many not a default.

Partnership & Field Building