This is an exciting time to join BBISS as we grow our team, scale our initiatives, expand partnerships, and accelerate impact. Critical to success is serving as a bridge between BBISS’s academic research strategy developed by the BBISS faculty leadership team and the external partnership ecosystem, translating research priorities into partnership opportunities, evaluating opportunities for strategic fit, and ensuring every relationship advances transdisciplinary research capabilities and BBISS’s mission of fostering partnerships that translate knowledge into practice.

The Managing Director serves as a strategic operating partner to the BBISS Executive Faculty Director (EFD), developing and leading BBISS’s external partnership strategy grounded in the institute’s academic research priorities while ensuring cohesive execution across the BBISS faculty leadership team portfolios and priority initiatives. The position encompasses two key responsibilities. The first is translating BBISS’s research mission into a sustained, high-impact partnerships with industry, foundations, government agencies, national laboratories, nonprofits, and civic organizations. The second is strategic integration and organizational coordination - serving as primary integrator ensuring initiatives are executed in a coordinated and mutually reinforcing manner.