160 manager jobs found

The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard develops and promotes durable, effective, and equitable solutions to the climate change challenges confronting humanity. The Climate Action Accelerator (CAA) sits within the Salata Institute and serves as a resource and partner to the full spectrum of external stakeholders wrestling with the most difficult climate questions, building consensus for climate solutions grounded in Harvard’s research and expertise. The Accelerator is nonpartisan, agile in dealing with emerging issues, and engaged with research conducted across Harvard University.  The Accelerator seeks a dedicated Project Manager with knowledge of climate change and sustainability issues and a passion to create and build. The Project Manager will be essential in facilitating and advancing the Accelerator’s work by providing support for its projects involving research, convenings, and external engagement initiatives.  The Project Manager, CAA, will report...

Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is a community of Information Technology professionals committed to delivering service and technological solutions in support of teaching, learning, research and administration.  We are recruiting an IT workforce that has both breadth in their ability to collaborate and innovate across disciplines – and depth in specific areas of expertise. HUIT offers opportunities for IT professionals to learn and work in a unique technology landscape and service-focused environment. If you are a technically proficient, nimble, user-focused, and accountable IT professional who also connects with the importance of collaborating well in a team environment, we are looking for you! The Change Manager provides dedicated, end-to-end process ownership for Harvard University Information Technology’s (HUIT) Change Management practice. Reporting to the Senior Director of IT Service Management & Operations, this role is responsible for the governance,...

Harvard's Financial Administration Department (FAD) is responsible for the stewardship of the University’s finances, including related business processes and technology in support of the teaching and research mission of the University. Harvard University’s Strategic Procurement Department is a central administrative function that serves all Harvard schools, institutes, and administrative units. Our mission is to create value for Harvard by optimizing the procurement of goods and services while upholding the highest standards of integrity, compliance, and supplier partnership. We manage over $3.5 billion in annual addressable spend and are committed to practices that support balance of trade, environmental sustainability, and the University’s long-term financial health. The Procurement Data Strategy, Analytics & Operations Manager is a key leadership role within Financial Administration (FAD) Strategic Procurement, responsible for advancing Harvard’s procurement capabilities...

Job Summary: Founded in 2016, the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) aims to study and promote human flourishing, and to develop systematic approaches to the synthesis of knowledge across disciplines. Christianity & The Common Good (CCG) is a new initiative launched by the Human Flourishing Program, working closely with the Program on Biblical Law & Christian Legal Studies (PBLCLS) at Harvard Law School. The focus of CCG is to establish intellectual space for sustained academic and scholarly engagement to advance human flourishing through a lens of Biblical and traditional Christian theological literature. The Program Manager will report to the Human Flourishing Program Executive Director and will oversee all of the operational activities of CCG including developing and managing administrative and financial systems and processes, communications strategies, event management and planning, donor engagement efforts,...

Harvard Medical School (HMS) seeks a Contract Manager to support administration, interpretation, implementation, and compliance related to collective bargaining agreements covering members of the Harvard Graduate Students Union (HGSU-UAW) and Harvard Academic Workers (HAW-UAW). Reporting to senior leadership within the Office for Faculty Affairs (OFA) the Contract Manager serves as a key institutional resource to departments, faculty, and administrators on union contract provisions affecting student workers, postdoctoral fellows, teaching fellows, teaching assistants, and other academic employees. This role ensures consistent application of negotiated agreements across HMS departments and works closely with central Harvard offices to support compliant hiring, appointment management, compensation administration, grievance processes, and labor-management collaboration. The Contract Manager plays a critical role in supporting HMS’s academic mission by enabling compliant and effective...

Job Summary: Independently plan and implement academic affairs operations including faculty support, curriculum management and training. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Curriculum and Pedagogy Manager (CPM) for General Chemistry courses plays an essential role supporting the General Chemistry courses (LPS A and PS11) offered by the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB), which are large and logistically complex introductory and foundational courses primarily taken by first-years and sophomores. The position works closely with the faculty course heads to develop and deliver innovative curricula and course materials, and to organize and manage a team of graduate and undergraduate teaching staff. The Curriculum and Course Manager will report to CCB’s Director of Undergraduate Studies and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies and work collegially with the rest of the undergraduate teaching staff.  Curriculum Development:  Works with the Course Head...

Job Summary: The Research Manager, AI will support research at the HBS AI Institute at Harvard  by being the in-house expert on research compliance, finance, and other policies leveraging AI tools to navigate these areas. The Research Manager will report to the HBS AI Institute Director of Research Services. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Configures, co-develops, and uses AI tools to support faculty principal investigators and researchers developing required research documentation, such as Institutional Review Board (IRB) submissions, data use agreement (DUA) exhibits, scopes of work (SOW), and budgets, with the goal of accelerating approval by delivering better first drafts to HBS and Harvard research administration. Identifies additional opportunities for use of agentic AI and other tools to streamline compliance workflow and develops strategy for deployment and adoption by HBS AI Institute and other HBS faculty. Partners with HBS Division of Research and Faculty...

We are seeking an experienced Agentic AI Product Manager to lead the development, oversight, and optimization of agentic AI applications supporting the HBS AI Institute Executive Education portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Associate Director, Data Science Vendors, this role is responsible for product ownership of AI-driven agent systems that enhance program delivery, operational efficiency, and learner experience. This position serves as the primary owner of agentic AI capabilities across executive education initiatives, working closely with faculty, program leadership, and external vendors. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Product Ownership and Strategy Own the vision, roadmap, and lifecycle management of agentic AI systems supporting executive education content and operations. Maintain and prioritize the product backlog for agentic AI initiatives. Translate business requirements into technical specifications for development teams. Communicate progress, risks, and...

The mission of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government is to advance the state of knowledge and policy analysis concerning some of society’s most challenging problems at the interface of the public and private sectors. Within the Center, the successful candidate will be a member of a team conducting research and policy outreach on interactions between climate-change and trade policy for the Project on Climate Change and Trade: Reducing Emissions and Advancing Prosperity. The successful candidate will have considerable substantive knowledge of trade policy, climate change and sustainability policy, or both. The candidate will be comfortable and effective in communicating with relatively senior individuals in government and the private sector, who may be participants in the project, and will be willing and able to support the team with logistical and administrative aspects of the project if and when needed. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Applying substantive...

Job Summary: The mission of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is to advance the public's health through learning, discovery and communication. To pursue the mission, the School produces knowledge through research then translates this knowledge into evidence that can be communicated to the public, policymakers, and practitioners to advance the health of populations The François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University was founded as the first university-wide center committed to exploring the interdependence of health and human rights. For more than 30 years it has sought to uphold the rights and dignity of every individual, paying special attention to children and their families.  Our scholarship evolves as do global challenges—continuing to focus on urgent and overlooked priorities that keep our work relevant, impactful, and at the forefront of the health and human rights discourse. Yet our founding mission—to champion health...

Job-Specific Responsibilities: The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard develops and promotes durable, effective, and equitable solutions to the climate change challenges confronting humanity. The Institute pursues its mission by strengthening the Harvard-wide community of scholars, students, staff, alumni, and practitioners working toward climate solutions by providing a home for research, teaching, and engagement in climate and the environment. With the Institute’s support, Harvard scholars tackle the climate challenge in their classrooms and their laboratories. The institute also leverages Harvard’s convening power to engage and influence government, business, civil society, and communities in ways that lead to a sustainable future. The Salata Institute seeks a dedicated professional, with knowledge of climate change issues or sustainability broadly, to strengthen ties between the Institute and students who are interested in climate and...

Job Summary: The Business Operations and Finance Manager, HBS Foundry is responsible for leading and optimizing the department’s core administrative, financial, and operational functions. This role ensures efficient contract administration, accurate and timely invoice processing, strong budget tracking, support and preparation, and effective HR coordination. Acting as a trusted partner to Foundry leadership, the Business Operations and Finance Manager drives operational excellence, builds scalable processes, and ensures compliance with institutional policies and financial controls. This role requires a proactive, detail-oriented leader who can manage competing priorities while improving systems, managing budgets, and supporting team effectiveness.   Job-Specific Responsibilities: Financial Management & Budget Ownership Lead annual budgeting, forecasting, and ongoing financial tracking for Foundry Create budget projections, monitor performance, identify...

The Assistant Property Manager (APM) reports to an Assistant Director of Operations and works as part of a Property Management Team with the Harvard Real Estate (HRE) Operations Group. The APM plays a key role in the operation of a diverse portfolio of buildings within the greater HRE portfolio.  The HRES portfolio consists of 3.3 million square feet located in Allston and Cambridge, MA.  Essential tasks of the APM include overseeing core aspects of day-to-day property management. They will manage select vendor service providers throughout their assigned portfolio.  The APM provides exceptional service as the lead point of contact for tenant communications and lease administration in a fast-paced property management organization. Job-Specific Responsibilities Personnel Management Provides day to day direction to the HRE Property Administrator (PA) and Property Operation Assistants (POA) or contracted maintenance vendor in addressing the needs of the tenants and their assigned...

Job Summary: The Hotamışlıgil Lab studies innate adaptive pathways involved in metabolic health and diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma. For the past nearly 30 years, our lab has made important contributions to the burgeoning field of “immunometabolism", studying the interactions between metabolic and immune responses as critical drivers of numerous chronic diseases. In the last decade, we have approached immunometabolism in these two paths: organelle homeostasis and lipid metabolism. Using biochemical, genetic, and physiological studies, we aim to find novel pathways and preventive, therapeutic solutions to today’s greatest threats to global human health. The environment in our laboratory is collegial, supportive and diverse. One of the greatest powers of science is its ability to unite people, where representatives from every nation, culture, ethnicity, religion, and lifestyle  can work together for a common purpose. This is most evident in...

The Executive Administrator and Project Manager to the Chief of Police is a role that combines high-level executive support, complex project management, and broad departmental coordination. The position manages the full range of administrative duties for the Chief’s office, leads key initiatives, and contributes to policy, accreditation, training, and compliance efforts for the University Police Department. The incumbent reports directly to the Chief and partners closely to the Assistant Chief, Accreditation Manager, Training Officer, HR and other campus partners to advance departmental priorities. This role requires exceptional judgment, discretion, solid sense of urgency and the ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Executive Support & Administrative Management Provide comprehensive executive support to the Chief of Police, including calendar and schedule management, meeting planning, travel arrangements,...

Job Summary: Responsible for the identification, evaluation, and protection against key risk exposures at the University, as well as any necessary loss mitigation related to such exposures. Job-Specific Responsibilities: As a key contributor to the University’s risk financing program, the Insurance Manager is a key player in the procurement and administration of the university’s casualty insurance and self-insured programs. Supporting the department’s consultative approach, the candidate should expect to regularly interact with internal clients and partners to holistically assess and address risk through a variety of means including but not limited to contract and policy reviews, on-site meetings and assessments as well as interviews and research. The position partners with the claims manager and Office of General Counsel on claims and coverage issues. The position may also be called upon to recommend solutions for addressing business risk based on objective consultation...

Job Summary: The Research Data and Project Manager will serve a technical and management role, overseeing the daily operations and complex digital infrastructure within the Population Mental Health Lab. This includes two large-scale, multi-country psychiatric genetics research studies: The Genetics of Eating Disorders and NeuroGAP-Psychosis II. The Genetics of Eating Disorders study, a large-scale effort focused on online participant recruitment and cohort development in the United States and South Africa, as well as clinical based recruitment in South Africa. NeuroGAP-Psychosis II is a clinical based, large-scale study across Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa.  These projects are a collaborative effort and run by a team at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. This role requires deep technical know-how in research databases, automation, programming, and troubleshooting to manage the...

Job Summary: Reporting to the Associate Director of Facilities Management, the Building Operations Manager oversees the daily operations of campus buildings, supervises building operations staff, and manages maintenance, vendor services, and assigned renovation projects. The position ensures effective use of the work order system, coordinates closely with the Building Systems Manager on operational and systems-related priorities, and maintains high standards of service, safety, and responsiveness for building occupants. The role also supports emergency management efforts and shares on-call responsibilities. This is an essential, on-campus critical position for HRI operations. During emergencies or severe weather, the employee must report to campus to perform non-deferrable work and may be called in outside of their regular schedule. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Essential Duties and Responsibilities:   Manages the daily operations of HRI campus buildings including...

The Research Laboratory Manager directs the day-to-day operations of a large [25+ people], internationally recognized Neurobiology Research Laboratory. This position calls for a responsible, diligent, conscientious and detail-oriented individual with a proven track record of managerial/leadership experience. A quick, resourceful and independent learner who enjoys interacting with people and finding creative solutions for projects and issues as they present themselves. Able to be flexible when organizing their day and managing multiple priorities at once. This person will serve as a liaison between principal investigator, school-based compliance departments and lab members. They will be committed to facilitating the research goals of this hard-working group of investigators in a friendly yet assertive manner. Able to foster an operationally seamless environment for lab investigators to carry out their research. Handle the in-processing and out-processing of all lab members by...

HALC seeks an experienced Senior Manager for Planning and Development, to facilitate the coordination of complex planning and design implementation, design review, and permitting processes across development projects within its portfolio.  Reporting to the Managing Director of Planning and Design Implementation, this role guides the development and refinement of site development parameters, design guidelines, and key physical planning elements for third-party projects; implements HALC’s design review process; and manages complex, multi-party entitlement efforts across the company’s development portfolio. The position requires exceptional organizational rigor, strong design judgment, collaborative spirit, and the ability to facilitate alignment among multiple stakeholders — including institutional and development partners, consultants, and public agencies — on a range of complex design, planning, and regulatory issues, ensuring projects advance in a manner consistent with the...

The Facilities Operations Manager (FOM) is responsible for safely managing the operational demands for their assigned facilities or properties in the Longwood Medical Area. The candidate must be able to organize and prioritize multiple competing and conflicting tasks and projects with limited resources, effectively manage stressful situations, and consistently make effective, high-quality decisions. They must also understand and develop open, proactive, effective, and consistent communication with occupants and department coordinators. The candidate will have overall responsibility and oversight of maintenance and operations and contract management services for the areas of responsibility. The candidate must be capable of actively monitoring building system performance, energy usage, appearance, and aesthetics, which require considerable walking and climbing. Knowledge of building systems, HVAC, electrical, mechanical, and services is necessary to perform cause analysis and...

About You: You are a collaborative, impact-focused problem solver who wants to be part of a dynamic team dedicated to supporting the commercialization of novel approaches to global challenges in healthcare and sustainability. You want the freedom to explore, to push the boundaries of what is possible, and to use your ambition to tackle challenging projects in a fast-paced, industry-focused environment. You enjoy working with diverse groups of people and leveraging your expertise to help get innovations that can change the world out of the lab and into the market. About the Role: We are looking for a talented individual to join our community as a Business Development Manager. Reporting to the Senior Business Development Director,- Commercialization, you will provide high-level support for the Institute's fast-paced business development activities by supporting startup formation, sponsored research and collaborations, licensing, and alliance management activities. What...

Job Summary: The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) is a partnership of public museums in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences that includes the Harvard Museum of Natural History (HMNH), the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE), the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments (CHSI), and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (PMAE). To learn more about HMSC's mission, objectives, and core values, please visit our website https://hmsc.harvard.edu/ Reporting to the Director of Administration, the Finance & Data Manager is responsible for HMSC’s finance, budget, and data reporting. The position works closely with the Director of Administration and the Executive Director to develop and monitor HMSC’s annual budget and maintain the consortium’s complex financial reporting framework. The role also collaborates with HMSC’s many stakeholders, including internal department directors, partner museum administrators, and central University...

Reporting to the Associate Director of Transit Services, the Operations Manager is responsible for the day-to-day management and continuous improvement of Harvard University’s Transit operations. The role supports: A 24 hour operation and oversees frontline and administrative staff, daily service delivery, customer service, and compliance activities across fixed-route daytime and evening campus shuttle services, accessible van services, on-demand evening transportation, and charter services. Requires evening and weekend hours. Ensures reliable, safe, and customer-focused operations while supporting strategic initiatives and projects led by the Associate Director and Managing Director of Transportation Services. This position collaborates closely with the Fleet Management team and provides operational support across Transit and Fleet as needed. Job-Specific Responsibilities: Operational Management & Service Delivery Manages daily operations of campus shuttle,...