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Provides high-level administrative and executive support to Harvard’s Provost, including complex calendar management, domestic and international travel, expenses, events, special projects, meeting preparation, stakeholder communication, and backup support for Deputy Provosts. Requires exceptional discretion, organization, judgment, responsiveness, and communication while managing changing priorities and confidential institutional matters.

Develop and maintain data cleaning, processing, management, and analytic pipelines for complex health, environmental, and administrative datasets. The role uses R, Python, SQL, GitHub, UNIX, HPC clusters, workflow tools, containers, and JSON metadata. Responsibilities include database maintenance, software development, debugging, data exploration, dataset creation, code refactoring, dashboard and data product deployment, documentation, and collaboration with research and infrastructure teams.

Manages sponsored research administration across the grant lifecycle, including proposal review, award monitoring, financial reporting, compliance, risk management, audits, and closeout. Serves as a liaison among faculty, research centers, and university offices; prepares activity reports and expenditure projections; provides policy guidance and training; coordinates sensitive communications; and represents the school on administrative committees.

Oversees the Academic Flourishing Initiative’s strategy, growth, recruitment, member engagement, revenue development, communications, research reporting, administration, staffing, budgeting, invoicing, and financial compliance. The role collaborates with Harvard leaders, colleges and universities, researchers, finance teams, legal offices, and communications staff to expand the data collaborative and deliver institutional reports and findings.

Oversees the Christianity & The Common Good initiative’s daily operations, staffing, finances, communications, courses, scholarly engagement, and events. Responsibilities include developing administrative and financial systems, managing budgets and transactions, coordinating faculty and researchers, maintaining communications channels, planning conferences and seminars, engaging donors and external partners, and ensuring compliance with Harvard policies. The role is hybrid, requires approximately 10% travel, and is a one-year term appointment with possible extension.

Supports Executive Education finance operations by answering participant and corporate finance inquiries, facilitating payments and vendor setup, processing participant transfers, invoices, credit notes, and refunds in Salesforce, and preparing payment and prepaid accounting reports and journal entries. Provides backup invoicing support, coordinates tax documentation and compliance requests, delivers high-quality customer service, and recommends process improvements while collaborating with Finance and Program Delivery teams.

Leads engagement, alumni relations, donor stewardship, development support, and fundraising activities for the Center for Public Leadership. Designs alumni and donor programs, plans events, manages councils and external relationships, supports senior leaders, evaluates engagement data, oversees communications resources, manages budgets and vendors, and leads a team. The role requires collaboration with university development and communications teams, along with occasional evenings, weekends, and travel.

Leads Harvard’s donor impact reporting and stewardship program, establishing standards, workflows, quality controls, and reporting strategies for endowed funds, gifts, grants, campaigns, and capital projects. Oversees donor-centered reports that combine financial data, institutional outcomes, and compelling stories. Manages and develops the reporting team, coordinates with advancement and academic stakeholders, supports donor cultivation and retention, and advises leadership on impact communications and stewardship strategy.

Leads donor and alumni engagement activities involving Harvard academic leaders. Develops engagement plans, prioritizes leadership time, manages portfolios, oversees travel and event logistics, coordinates prospect meetings, reviews briefing materials, and maintains data management practices. Supervises assistant directors and a coordinator while partnering with development leadership, academic offices, fundraisers, donors, and prospects. The role also supports process improvement, reporting, strategic planning, and relationship management within a complex university environment.

Manages Harvard Library HR functions including position classification, compensation analysis, position management, HRIS reporting, compliance, performance management, and leadership development programs. Oversees HR processes from intake through communication, advises leadership on organizational changes, supports data integrity, and coordinates annual performance and compensation activities. The role is hybrid and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.