Managing Director, Middle School Career Exploration Hub

Requisition Number: MANAG
001324

• Posted :
  August 17, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Britebound is a national non-profit with a mission to support middle and high school learners to explore their interests, experience potential careers, and navigate a path to a meaningful and rewarding future. We fulfill our mission through free digital-first experiences, grantmaking, policy advocacy, research, and impact investing.

We believe that exploring career possibilities, as early as middle school, and providing access to education-to-career pathways aligned with one’s passions and goals will result in greater confidence and long-term success for all students.

We're looking for a Managing Director, Middle School Career Exploration 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.

We’re 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 person's 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.

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 Hub's 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 required 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 Britebound's other Impact Hubs and executive leadership team.

• Define and steward the Hub's strategic…