11 principal managing partner jobs found in Cambridge

Project Zero is a research unit at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Under the general direction of the Principal Investigators, the Research Director (RD) will play a lead role on the Learning as a Practice of Healing Project. Learning as a Practice of Healing is an interdisciplinary research initiative that seeks to understand how learning can serve as a transformative practice, dedicated to healing our individual and collective connections with self, nature, and societies in times of change. A 1.5-year grant funds the project as phase one in a multi-year project. In this project, the RD works across multiple strands.  The RD for this project will assume leadership on various aspects of the research, management, and operations oversight including (a) collaborating with PIs in fundraising efforts, (b) overseeing all strategic aspects of the research strategy, (c) supervising an interdisciplinary research team, (d) leading operational decisions, (e) advancing...

Harvard Kennedy School’s mission is to improve public policy and leadership so people can live in societies that are more safe, free, just, and sustainably prosperous. By combining cutting-edge research, the teaching of outstanding students, and direct interaction with practitioners, we have an impact on solving public problems that no other institution can match.  Our faculty, students, staff, about 23,000 degree program alumni, and more than 66,000 Professional and Lifelong Learning (PLL) participants tackle a diverse range of public challenges in the United States and around the world.  The Senior Associate Dean is responsible for overseeing all functions of the department to deliver on Professional and Lifelong Learning’s (PLL) mission. Reporting to the Executive Dean with a dotted line to the Academic Dean for Teaching and Curriculum, the Senior Associate Dean is responsible for ensuring that PLL achieves its academic and financial objectives, creates strong bonds with...

Job-Specific Responsibilities: University Development and Advancement Solutions (UD&AS) Scope and Structure:  The Office of UD&AS encompasses teams that support the day-to-day management of University-wide alumni affairs and development functions:  Presidential and Provostial Development Activities and Strategy : Develop and guide the strategy for the president's and provost's fundraising priorities and activities.  Principal Giving : Raises eight- and nine-figure gifts to support Harvard fundraising priorities identified by the president, provost, and deans that span disciplines and Schools, as well as School-based priorities.  University-wide Fundraising Programs : Includes central gift planning, international priorities and initiatives, and corporate and foundation relations fundraising teams.  University Research : Provides research and prospect management services to central AA&D and Schools development units.  Office of Gift Administration : Gift...

Reporting to the Associate Provost and Chief Technology Development Officer, the Director of Business Development (DBD) will support OTD’s core mission to 1) commercialize technologies emerging from Harvard labs and 2) secure funding from corporate sources to advance research.  The DBD will be responsible for developing and implementing commercialization plans for technologies in the physical sciences, engineering, applied and computer sciences. This entails assessing the commercial potential and market opportunities for new technologies and formulating strategies for their transfer to society through licensing, startup creation, or partnering with industry. The DBD will manage a portfolio of inventions in diverse fields of technology including materials science, quantum, AI, energy, medical devices, imaging, and nanotech. The DBD will draft term sheets and negotiate license and sponsored research agreements; help create startups and develop relationships with entrepreneurs and...

The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) is launching an initiative to build the best-in-class research enablement environment for public policy. Over the next two years, the School will pilot and pressure test strategies and solutions addressing the increasing complexity of the research and research compliance environment. This position will directly support this work. As a member of the Research Computing and Data Services (RCDS) team in Library and Research Services (LRS) at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and reporting to the Director of Research Computing and Data Services, the Data Safety Reviewer  will be primarily charged with managing the Data Safety process and queue for the Harvard Kennedy School. You will review and guide Principal Investigators and researchers through the Data Safety research compliance process, advising on research data management best practices that comply with Harvard Research Data Security Policy and the Harvard IT Enterprise Policy while referring...

Job Summary: The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University seeks a Senior Research Manager to oversee and further develop the analytical work of the Center. CEPR partners with school districts, charter school networks, and state education agencies to bring high quality research methods and data analysis to bear on strategic management and policy decisions. CEPR seeks to transform education through the power of research and evidence. CEPR and its partners believe all students will learn and thrive when education leaders make decisions using evidence, rather than hunches and untested assumptions. In pursuit of this end, CEPR both conducts cutting-edge quantitative research on critical topics for the field and develops new and faster models of education research that can better support education leaders. The SRM will be a critical part of the CEPR team, helping education leaders to learn what’s working and what’s not in education. The Senior Research...

Harvard seeks an innovative and experienced fundraising leader and strategic thinker to lead the gift planning program in University Development. Harvard’s gift planning program has a long history of leadership and expertise and the trusts under management comprise the largest program in the industry.  Harvard Gift Planning (HGP) serves as the primary planned giving strategists and front-line fundraisers for eight Schools and several non-school units, while also serving all of Harvard as a resource for policies, procedures, lead generation, industry trends, knowledge capture, marketing coordination, staff training, and convening of peers for discussion of best practices.  Reporting to the Senior Executive Director, University Development, the Executive Director, Harvard Gift Planning, will develop, implement, and oversee a proactive planned giving fundraising strategy that continues to create industry best practices and adds value to the fundraising of all of Harvard’s Schools...

The Senior Research Analyst (SRA) will be part of a growing team at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University. CEPR seeks to transform education through the power of research and evidence. CEPR and its partners believe all students will learn and thrive when education leaders make decisions using evidence, rather than hunches and untested assumptions. In pursuit of this end, CEPR both conducts cutting-edge quantitative research on critical topics for the field and develops new and faster models of education research that can better support education leaders. The SRA will be a critical part of the CEPR team, helping education leaders around the country to learn what’s working and what’s not in education.  The Senior Research Analyst develops, manages, and contributes to research on important educational topics, such as college and career preparation and long-term success, literacy coaching, literacy tutoring, high quality curriculum and instructional...

The Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) seeks an experienced and mission-driven Associate Director, Development Administration to help grow philanthropic support to the School by providing expertise in gift fund administration and financial acumen.   The Harvard Kennedy School has a demonstrated track record of training the world’s leaders and public servants.  Since its founding in 1936, the Harvard Kennedy School has evolved from a graduate school of public administration to a global institution that brings together powerful research, students from over 100 countries, and practitioners from across the public sector to solve the major problems our time. Established with a gift of $2 million, the Kennedy School also has a long tradition of philanthropy.   In FY25, the School had a record-breaking year in revenue dollars, the number of alumni donors and the percent of revenue that came from non-alumni donors who chose the Kennedy School as their partner for impact. The Harvard Kennedy...

The office of Alumni Relations & Resource Development (ARRD) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) seeks an experienced, ambitious and mission-driven Executive Director, Principal & Major Gifts to lead Harvard Kennedy School’s Principal & Major Gifts (PMG) program to secure and grow principal and major gifts support to the school. The Executive Director (ED) designs and implements creative strategies and solutions to substantially build pipelines for PMG, engaging new individuals with the capacity to make gifts of $100k+, focusing on growing the number of $1m+ and $25m+ gifts to the school.  The ED works at the highest levels of the school, partnering with board and council members, senior administration, faculty, and School stakeholders as appropriate. They will drive short- and long-range planning related to principal and major gifts revenue, activity and pipeline building. In addition, they hire, coach and mentor staff within Principal & Major Gifts to grow the...

Job Summary: Reporting to senior faculty member with an interdisciplinary research group spanning physics and chemistry, manages and directs laboratory administrative personnel and researchers.  This position is with Park Research Group at Harvard University. The Park Group is affiliated with the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Department of Physics, and Quantum Science and Engineering Program at Harvard University. The group focuses on fundamental studies of nanoscale electrical, optical, and plasmonic devices that operate based upon quantum mechanical principles, as well as the development of new nano- and microelectronic tools that can interface with living cells, cell networks, and organisms. The goal of our  quantum optoelectronics  effort is to develop solid-state photonic, optoelectronic, and plasmonic devices that work all the way down to the single quantum level, thus paving the way for all-optical computing and solid-state quantum information...