Jobs at Harvard Business School

Coordinates biomedical science career programs, student support and travel funds, conferences, workshops, and virtual programming. Manages applications, eligibility reviews, awards, event timelines, materials, speakers, mentors, surveys, evaluations, and post-event reporting. Maintains Salesforce records, resolves data issues, produces reports, and supports attendance-growth strategies while coordinating multiple stakeholders and overlapping deadlines.

Provides part-time coordination and administrative support for public health research programming. Responsibilities include organizing meetings, webinars, workshops, outreach, communications, educational activities, records, resource dissemination, project tracking, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across a research network focused on health and extreme weather.

Leads creative strategy, art direction, visual branding, and design execution for Harvard Innovation Labs across digital, print, environmental, and event platforms. Oversees campaigns, brand guidelines, merchandise, signage, motion graphics, video, and marketing assets. Advises founders on brand identity and pitch decks, manages external creative vendors, and mentors design interns while integrating accessible and inclusive design practices and AI-enabled workflows.

Manages Harvard Mail and Distribution Services, including mail processing, forwarding, satellite mail centers, postage metering, parcel tracking, customer service, staffing, payroll, billing, budgeting, reporting, and operational projects. Oversees and trains staff, maintains procedures and data integrity, supports hiring, coordinates with campus facilities, markets mail services, and reports operational updates to the Director. The role requires physical mail operations experience, strong computer skills, a valid Massachusetts driver’s license, and a DOT medical certificate.

Provides strategic and administrative leadership for Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics. Oversees research administration, educational programs, compliance, finance, staffing, technology, space, and departmental infrastructure. Advises the Chair and faculty, leads administrative teams, supports faculty recruitment and advancement, manages institutional partnerships, ensures policy compliance, and advances innovation, inclusion, collaboration, and operational excellence across research and academic activities.

Leads major and planned giving fundraising for Harvard Radcliffe Institute, managing a 150–175 prospect portfolio and pursuing six- and seven-figure donations. Responsibilities include prospect identification, donor cultivation and solicitation, planned giving strategy, database management, volunteer coordination, donor events, leadership briefings, and extensive travel. The role requires collaboration across Harvard, proactive national outreach, and achievement of annual fundraising goals.

Manages admissions, outreach, and application tracking for the Crimson Summer Academy. Recruits, trains, supervises, and supports mentors and resident assistants; develops related policies; teaches career exploration; oversees college visits and student travel; resolves conflicts; coordinates mentor-student communications; and supports alumni programming and events.

Leads IT project and portfolio execution for technology services, managing milestones, risks, resources, budgets, vendors, service performance, compliance, security coordination, and user-facing change. The role establishes operational processes, reporting standards, governance materials, and service definitions while coordinating stakeholders across HUIT, information security, identity management, platform services, finance, procurement, and distributed university IT teams.

Leads research, advocacy, coalition building, and litigation related to preventing expansion of mass incarceration infrastructure. Develops partnerships and campaign strategies, produces legal and advocacy materials, manages client and co-counsel relationships, oversees litigation execution, and supervises junior team members, interns, and student attorneys.

Coordinates daily operations for Harvard’s First-Year Seminar Program, supporting faculty, students, events, travel, scheduling, classroom technology, budgets, applications, databases, websites, archives, and administrative processes. Provides customer service, manages communications and reports, supports faculty recruitment and application cycles, maintains course information, and assists with curriculum projects. The role requires strong organization, communication, data management, event planning, and attention to deadlines, with five days onsite during term time.

Leads AI-driven quality engineering for the my.harvard portal by developing agents that analyze requirements and code, generate test scenarios and automation, and continuously improve testing strategies. Builds RAG pipelines using Jira, Confluence, repositories, documentation, and defect history. Maintains UI, API, regression, accessibility, and performance testing with CI/CD integration, while collaborating with developers, business analysts, architects, product owners, and DevOps teams.

Supports academic malaria research focused on parasite-vector interactions, mosquito reproduction, parasite transmission, and chemical interventions. Responsibilities include malaria parasite culturing, controlled mosquito infections, mosquito microdissection and maintenance, DNA/RNA isolation, qRT-PCR, protein assays, immunofluorescence microscopy, cell culture, and general laboratory work. The role requires handling human-derived samples and malaria parasites, collaboration with researchers, schedule flexibility, and work in warm, humid laboratory conditions.

Coordinates patient referrals, diagnostic testing, specialty consultations, prior authorizations, appointment scheduling, and referral documentation. Serves as a liaison among patients, providers, insurers, and outside facilities while maintaining accurate records and confidentiality. Provides general clinic support, handles telephone requests, prepares correspondence, generates reports, and follows healthcare, safety, HIPAA, and departmental protocols.

Provides financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and strategic support for university capital planning and project approvals. Advises schools and business units, supports governance committees, develops reports and dashboards, trains users, and helps improve capital planning systems and processes. The role also coordinates with facilities and finance stakeholders, manages complex workflows, supports compliance, and responds to ad hoc analytical requests.

Designs, develops, tests, implements, and supports Oracle APEX applications and PL/SQL database solutions. Leads technical design, architecture, integrations, code reviews, secure coding, Agile delivery, troubleshooting, modernization, and platform upgrades. Collaborates with stakeholders, evaluates emerging and AI-assisted technologies, supports REST integrations, documents solutions, mentors team members, and resolves production issues through root cause analysis.

Coordinates venue scheduling, student activities, events, administrative office operations, access systems, financial transactions, supplies, communications, databases, and facility requests for Harvard’s Memorial Hall/Lowell Lecture Hall Complex. Supports students, faculty, staff, vendors, and visitors while maintaining policies, calendars, records, budgets, web pages, and departmental information flow.

Supports cell biology and protein quality-control research through cell culture, molecular biology, microscopy, biochemical experiments, and laboratory organization. Works with postdoctoral fellows and the Principal Investigator on interdisciplinary projects involving proteomics, flow cytometry, and quantitative experiments. Maintains laboratory operations, records, supplies, and ongoing research activities while developing hands-on experimental biology expertise.

Design and maintain healthcare data infrastructure, pipelines, integrations, datasets, dashboards, and data governance processes. Analyze clinical, operational, referral, geographic, and public health data to measure outcomes, identify service gaps, support quality improvement, and guide mobile healthcare deployment. Collaborate with health systems, community organizations, public agencies, and diverse communities to translate findings into actionable recommendations, reports, tools, and presentations advancing health equity.

Supports peer-review and publication processes for a Cold War studies journal and book series. Responsibilities include corresponding with authors, reviewers, publishers, and editors; preparing and formatting manuscripts and book reviews; tracking review and publication status; resolving manuscript issues; overseeing student research assistants; and maintaining the program website. The role requires on-campus presence, manuscript and book handling, and 21 hours per week.

Provides administrative and operational support to an academic department, including office management, records, faculty leave coordination, personnel onboarding, events, projects, and departmental communications. Supports the department chair with scheduling, meetings, reports, agendas, minutes, and initiatives. The role requires strong organization, discretion, independent problem-solving, stakeholder coordination, and a substantial in-person presence, with work on campus up to four days weekly.