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Career Options
A career with Bright Horizons is a journey, where you can go as far as your aspirations take you, with unlimited access to opportunities for professional development and personal growth. The variety of career options and growth opportunities we offer through our formalized succession planning program is unsurpassed in the industry.
Available Types of Positions
Corporate Office Positions: Our casual, welcoming, corporate environment offers an array of opportunities, from accounting and payroll to benefits and customer service.
Associate Teachers: Entry-level full-time/part-time professional positions working under the guidance of a trained teacher with demonstrated experience with children, such as volunteering, coaching, and parenting.
Teachers: Requires professional experience supervising or educating children, plus completion of early education coursework. (Credentials also available through our own Bright Horizons University.) Responsibilities also include curriculum development and family communication.
Directors/Principals: Center and school leaders have exemplary supervisory and management skills along with a prior teaching and administration background, including NAEYC accreditation.
Regional Managers: Provide strategic leadership to a geographic region, manage center directors and staff, and ensure that your centers exceed state and local licensing, health and safety standards, and NAEYC criteria. Must have a BA or MA in Early Childhood Education or a related field and multisite management experience.
Business Manager/Customer Service Associate: Contribute your extensive office experience by managing the business, computer, reception, and facilities functions of a center or school.
Opportunities in the Following Types of Programs
Child care centers serve children ages 6 months to 6 years and provide a world rich with discovery and exploration. Skilled, sensitive teachers guide children through their development, celebrating each child's individuality and encouraging a strong foundation of learning through our signature curriculum, The World at Their Fingertips.
Back-up centers serve children ages 6 months to 12 years and are designed to help working parents during times when regular child care arrangements have been disrupted. Children in back-up care need to feel secure, safe, and happy in an unfamiliar setting, and teachers in back-up care have the opportunity to work with many different children and families throughout the year, while focusing on individual teacher-child interactions and teachable moments.
Montessori schools serve children from infancy through elementary school age and provide authentic, carefully planned Montessori learning environments, materials, and teaching practices led by Montessori-credentialed teachers and directresses.
Elementary schools for kindergarten through sixth grade provide children with supportive learning environments and dynamic educational experiences that enable them to achieve academic success and develop personal responsibility and integrity. Combining academics with a strong sense of community, Bright Horizons schools help children to become global citizens, problem solvers, and lifelong learners.
Summer camp programs for infants to 12-year-olds provide fun opportunities for children and staff to explore nature, science, art, and music; work collaboratively; build lifelong friendships; and further develop interests and skills in a fun, relaxed setting.
Corporate offices in our headquarters in Watertown, Massachusetts, or in regional offices throughout the world, offer a welcoming, casual environment, a caring, supportive culture, and outstanding opportunities to make a difference in the lives of children and families while utilizing your skills in accounting, finance, marketing, human resource management, information technology, and general administration.
College Coach provides educational counseling services to parents of college-bound children and offers unique career opportunities working with both employers and families.
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The first step in your career path begins today. Explore our careers site and find an opportunity that meets both your skills of today and your goals for tomorrow. See how many places you can go on a career path (PDF) with Bright Horizons.
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