Jobs at Harvard Business School

Coordinates executive support coverage, administrative operations, employee onboarding, events, learning programs, and organizational initiatives. Maintains documentation, intranet content, procedures, and standard operating practices while identifying process improvements. Provides day-to-day guidance to administrative staff, manages meeting and event logistics, and supports consistent, efficient service delivery across HUIT.

Frontline fundraiser responsible for building and managing a $100K–$500K prospect and donor pipeline. Qualifies prospects, develops cultivation and solicitation strategies, partners with faculty and development colleagues on six-figure gifts, manages donor relationships, supports events, prepares faculty briefings, develops targeted communications, and records activity in the CRM. The role requires collaboration across teams, moderate domestic travel, and occasional evening and weekend work.

Coordinates front-of-house operations for performances and events at Memorial Hall. Responsibilities include assigning and instructing ushers, resolving patron and seating issues, assisting patrons with accessibility needs, enforcing fire codes, responding to emergencies, and coordinating producers, box office, security, custodial, and technical staff. Also supports theatrical lighting and audio systems and operates piano and wheelchair lifts.

Develop and deploy large-scale software systems and generative AI tools for education and public policy research. Build machine learning and natural language processing applications, support randomized controlled trials, collaborate with researchers, and translate experimental designs into reliable production systems. Contribute to academic publications and technical reports while working with Python, TypeScript, cloud platforms, and modern full-stack frameworks.

The Senior Talent Acquisition Partner manages full-cycle recruiting for assigned departments, including recruiting plans, sourcing, assessments, interviews, references, offers, and salary recommendations. The role advises hiring managers, supports compliant and inclusive hiring, analyzes recruiting data, develops advertising and social media strategies, conducts outreach and recruiting events, and may lead executive searches, vendor relations, position classification, and special HR projects.

Serves as a strategic HR partner to managers, faculty, staff, and bargaining-unit representatives. Provides guidance on employee and labor relations, performance management, retention, staffing, compensation, organizational development, change management, recruitment, payroll transactions, policy compliance, and employment law. Leads HR projects, improves service delivery, coaches stakeholders, and resolves complex workplace issues while maintaining confidentiality and supporting an inclusive, high-performing culture.

Manages pre- and post-award administration for a portfolio of federal and non-federal grants, contracts, and sponsored programs. Responsibilities include budget development, forecasting, reconciliation, expenditure review, compliance monitoring, payroll changes, journal entries, grant closeout, application submission, and sponsor responses. Partners with principal investigators and central administrative offices to ensure adherence to sponsor, university, fiscal, and research compliance requirements.

Supports hands-on mechanical engineering education through lab instruction, course and workshop development, student mentoring, equipment maintenance, fabrication support, and technical troubleshooting. Oversees lab safety training, compliance, documentation, purchasing, and facility organization. Advises students on capstone, thesis, and extracurricular projects while collaborating with faculty and teaching staff to develop instructional activities and design competitions.

Manages complex sponsored awards across their lifecycle, interpreting sponsor terms, determining award structures, resolving high-risk issues, and advising university stakeholders. Ensures GMAS data integrity through audits and reconciliations, supports regulatory compliance, and leads improvements to award management processes and systems. Serves as a senior escalation point and subject matter expert for sponsored research administration.

Manages the financial portfolio of faculty research programs, overseeing pre- and post-award activities for grants, contracts, endowments, and gifts. Responsibilities include developing budgets, submitting applications, responding to sponsors, forecasting, reconciling accounts, approving expenditures, ensuring effort-reporting compliance, processing payroll changes, recording journal entries, and closing grants. Partners with principal investigators and administrative offices while managing complex awards, subcontracts, and sponsor requirements.

Leads and supervises a research administration team supporting post-award management, sponsored research compliance, financial oversight, effort reporting, audits, and policy development. Establishes workflows, resolves complex administration issues, manages performance and hiring, advises senior leadership, and coordinates with finance, sponsored programs, technology transfer, and research compliance offices. Ensures sponsored spending and award management comply with federal, sponsor, university, and school requirements.

Directs Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Political Economy by developing fellowships, workshops, research initiatives, and academic programming. Manages finances, administration, grants, funder relations, and development efforts; mentors fellows; co-teaches a seminar; coordinates with student organizations and research centers; oversees reports and white papers; and builds connections with policy foundations and media organizations.

Processes HR, payroll, finance, purchasing, and expense transactions in administrative systems; runs reports, handles inquiries, and supports high-volume operational periods. Provides temporary project support by investigating process issues, analyzing system data, recommending changes, documenting procedures and help materials, and reporting assignment status and lessons learned.

Provides reception and client service for a busy massage and acupuncture center. Greets visitors, answers phone and email inquiries, schedules appointments, processes payments, and performs routine clerical tasks such as filing, data entry, and correspondence. Maintains confidentiality, follows HIPAA and department compliance requirements, communicates effectively with diverse clients and colleagues, and supports clinic coverage and operations during scheduled evening hours.

Leads principal gifts fundraising for Harvard, managing approximately 50 high-net-worth prospects and donors capable of gifts exceeding $10 million. Develops cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and engagement strategies; partners with academic leaders, faculty, fundraisers, and volunteers; coordinates donor visits and events; prepares gift proposals; and advances university-wide priorities. Requires extensive travel as needed, occasional evening or weekend work, and hybrid office presence.

Manages Harvard’s annual Arts Festival and special events, overseeing curation, production, marketing, staffing, volunteers, venues, vendors, budgets, artist hospitality, logistics, communications, and post-event reporting. Coordinates students, faculty, staff, artists, and university partners; develops schedules, workflows, event plans, briefing materials, and promotional content. Requires live performance production experience, strong project and people management, attention to detail, and availability for irregular hours including evenings.

Leads Harvard GSD’s Design Discovery, Design Discovery Youth, and undergraduate Architecture Studies programs. Responsibilities include advising students, coordinating curricula, supervising teaching teams and fellows, overseeing pedagogy and student issues, supporting recruitment and marketing, and developing modular design curriculum and certification pathways. Collaborates with faculty, university learning-platform teams, and media producers to create courses, videos, syllabi, and other educational materials. The role is hybrid in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with regular onsite presence and program-period supervision.

Manages Project Zero’s sponsored research and grants portfolio, providing pre- and post-award support to principal investigators. Responsibilities include proposal budgets, financial projections, reporting, invoicing, account reconciliation, effort certification, compliance monitoring, award closeout, and coordination with university offices and subrecipients. Supports broader financial operations, budgeting, year-end close, corporate card and reimbursement reviews, records retention, and process improvements while advising colleagues and ensuring adherence to sponsor and university policies.

Leads AI-driven quality engineering for the my.harvard portal. Designs agents that analyze requirements, code, documentation, and defects to generate test scenarios and automation. Develops RAG pipelines, code-aware testing, human-in-the-loop validation, and autonomous test workflows using Python and modern testing frameworks. Maintains UI, API, regression, performance, accessibility, and CI/CD testing while improving agent performance through feedback and continuous learning. Collaborates with developers, architects, business analysts, product owners, and DevOps engineers.

Manage a portfolio of 150–175 major and planned gift prospects, primarily in Boston and New York, to secure six- and seven-figure contributions. Build national planned-giving pipelines through proactive outreach, cultivate donor relationships, coordinate volunteers and senior leaders, organize donor events, prepare briefings, maintain accurate database records, and meet fundraising goals. The role requires extensive travel, occasional weekend support, and regular collaboration across Harvard development teams.