Education Centre Director (Annecy, France)

👋About Boundless Life

Boundless Life is redefining the way families live, work, and learn by empowering them to embrace a nomadic lifestyle that fosters deeper connections and personal growth. We provide family-friendly accommodations, an innovative education system that travels with you, and vibrant communities of like-minded individuals. 

Since our founding in 2021, we’ve rapidly expanded to eight locations across Europe, Asia, and Latin America, bringing together over 200 team members from diverse backgrounds. Our growth reflects our commitment to transforming the experience economy and making a meaningful impact on how families integrate work, education, and exploration into their lives.

At Boundless Life, we believe in the power of community and the importance of a holistic approach to education. Our programs are designed to inspire curiosity, build resilience, and nurture a global perspective. We combine a project-based, place-based learning with the freedom to live and learn anywhere, for families who want more than a traditional school can offer. Our Education Centres are the heart of everything we do.

Please note: This role is part of our hiring for the upcoming launch in France. As we are still finalising operational timelines for the location, exact start dates are yet to be confirmed. We're reviewing applications on a rolling basis and are committed to keeping shortlisted candidates informed as plans take shape.

🎯 Role Overview

Annecy will be opening in April 2027. You will be one of the first people on the ground, and that means the role looks different at the start than it will six months in.

In the early weeks, you will be hands-on in the full sense: helping set up the space, building relationships with local partners, welcoming the first families, and doing whatever needs to be done to open well. As the cohort launches, your focus shifts to what this role is ultimately about: leading a team of educators to deliver the Boundless curriculum with consistency, quality, and genuine presence, in a place as extraordinary as Annecy.

The Education Centre Director is the educational leader of the location. You are responsible for how the learning happens — not what is taught (our global curriculum team owns that), but how it is brought to life by your team. That means knowing your educators deeply, coaching them continuously, holding the bar high, and making sure every cohort delivers on the Boundless promise. You report to the Head of Education Excellence and work alongside the General Manager who leads the broader location operations.

This role is for someone who is genuinely energised by the challenge of building something from scratch, and who understands that leadership in education means developing people, not just delivering programs.

💼 What You'll Do

Educator Leadership and Team Development

• Lead, coach, and manage a team of educators through structured 1:1s, regular classroom observations, and direct, specific feedback
• Set clear expectations for performance and conduct, address gaps independently, and support every educator's professional growth through deliberate development conversations
• Own the onboarding of new educators and contribute to hiring decisions alongside the Head of Education Excellence
• Build a team culture that is high-performing, deeply engaged, and resilient through an intense cohort calendar
  
  

Curriculum Execution and Educational Quality

• Ensure the Boundless curriculum is implemented consistently and with fidelity to our global methodology and standards — you do not design the curriculum, you make sure it comes to life as intended
• Ensure project-based and place-based learning happen on the ground, meaningfully incorporating the unique context of Annecy while staying aligned with global standards
• Observe classes regularly, identify what is and is not working, and coach your team to improve
• Surface implementation challenges to the global education team and bring solutions, not just problems
  
  

Family Relationships

• Serve as a visible, trusted presence for families throughout the cohort
• Handle family concerns and escalations with confidence and care, independently and without unnecessary escalation to global leadership
• Support a smooth admissions and intake experience for incoming families
  
  

Education Center Operations 

• In the early months, support whatever is needed to open the location: setting up the EC, coordinating with local vendors, managing logistics, assembling furniture. You’ll be setting up a new Education Center from scratch!
• Team administration: holiday approvals, leave tracking in BambooHR, payroll review, absence management, onboarding and offboarding educators
• Family communication and engagement: daily queries, individual family meetings each cohort, pre-arrival webinars, ongoing Toddle and Slack communication, parent emails, and coordination of the learning celebration
• ECAs and field trips: defining the strategy, collaborate in identifying local partners, managing logistics, risk assessments, execution, oversight, and accounting
• EC operations: health and safety checks, emergency planning and drills, first aid kit upkeep, supervise facilities cleanliness, ensure supplies and inventory are up to date, invoices, and ad hoc projects like classroom setup or conversions
• Food and daily logistics: catering liaison, menu planning, managing allergies and restrictions, lunch coordination
• Events: movie nights and other community events, including organisation, childcare, and communications
• Platform and information management: ensuring educators and the team have access to all relevant systems and student information, maintaining student profiles, managing calendars
• Local stakeholder liaison: community partnerships, local authorities, and supporting any legal or compliance matters specific to the location
  
  

The ECD role is evolving. Over time, as the structure matures, the goal is for you to spend the majority of your time on educational leadership. In the early phase — and in reality for some time to come — the role also involves running much of what keeps the centre working day to day.

🧠 You'll Be Valued For

• You have led and developed people. You have managed a team, conducted observations and given feedback, had hard performance conversations independently, and genuinely invested in making the people around you better. You do not wait for someone to give you permission to address underperformance.
• You understand what excellent curriculum implementation looks like in practice. You can walk into a learning space, see what is actually happening, and give an educator specific and useful feedback. You understand PBL and place-based learning not as concepts but as practices.
• You are energized by building something. You are comfortable without a complete playbook, willing to do whatever the moment requires, and able to hold the long view while managing the immediacy of a launch.
• You are exceptional with families. You can hold a difficult conversation with a concerned parent calmly and independently, and you understand that how families feel about their experience is directly connected to everything we are building.
• You thrive in fast-moving, non-traditional environments. You may come from experiential education, an educational startup, a camp or outdoor learning context, or an international school where you genuinely ran the people side of the operation.

French language skills or a strong connection to France are a genuine asset for this role.

📈 What Success Looks Like

At six months: the Annecy EC is open, the team is cohesive and clear on expectations, families feel welcomed and supported, and you are leading the educational experience with confidence.

In the long term, success in this role is measured against three things:

• 85% or more of families report satisfaction with their overall Boundless Education experience, measured through our termly NPS and satisfaction survey
• 85% or more of educators and facilitators in the centre meet or exceed their role-specific impact metrics
• Staff turnover is low and staff engagement is high, with 80% or more of the team reporting high engagement in our termly pulse survey
  
  

🤝 Who You'll Work With

You report to the Annecy General Manager, who owns location operations, with a dotted reporting line to the Head of Education Excellence, who leads educational quality and development across all Boundless locations globally. 

🌟 Why Join Us

You will build a team and a learning culture from the ground up in one of the most beautiful places in Europe. You will have real responsibility, real autonomy, and the support of a global team that takes educational quality seriously. Annecy is the beginning of something — and you will be part of making it great.

Beyond the work itself, joining Boundless means being part of a mission-driven team that genuinely believes education can be done differently. You will be pioneering a model that does not yet exist at scale anywhere in the world — place-based, project-driven, and designed for families who have chosen a different kind of life. That is not a small thing to be part of.

You will also benefit from:

• A discount on Boundless Education tuition for your own children
• A global community of educators, families, and team members who care deeply about what they are building
• Real ownership of your location and your team's development
• The chance to grow as the organisation grows — this role has significant room to evolve
  
  

Regulatory Requirements for France (Essential)

Candidates should meet the following criteria:

• Nationality: Hold French, EU or EEA nationality, or otherwise have eligibility expressly confirmed under the applicable French regulations.
• Qualifications: Hold a minimum of a two-year post-secondary qualification (Bac+2), recognised under French regulations. Candidates with foreign qualifications should ideally already have an ENIC-NARIC comparability certificate, where required.
• Professional experience: Have at least five years of documented experience in teaching, management or supervision within a school or higher education institution in the EU/EEA.
• Documentation: Be able to promptly provide supporting documentation, including academic qualifications, proof of relevant professional experience and a recent criminal record extract.
• Availability: Be available to join as soon as possible and relocate to Annecy to take on the position on-site.

Please note: These requirements are directly linked to the French regulatory approval process and will be assessed at the initial screening stage.

✅ What to Expect Next

• Interview with our recruiter — to get to know you and share more about the role and what we are looking for
• Personality assessment — to help us understand how you work and how you are likely to show up in this environment
• Panel interview with our COO & Head of Education Excellence — focused on instructional coaching, people management, educational leadership and alignment with our learning model
  
• Interview with the Head of People — to assess alignment with Boundless Life and clarify any doubts about the role and company
• Final round with the Head of Education — to assess alignment with Boundless Life’s culture, values, and ways of working
• Potentially: Case study — for selected candidates, a practical scenario exercise to see how you think and how you lead
• References — structured conversations with people who have seen you manage and lead
  

The process might change slightly as we go along, we will keep you posted at all times.

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