Senior Director of Strategy, Advancement, and Organizational Development

Company Description

By working at Harvard University, you join a vibrant community that advances Harvard's world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, and builds skills and expertise. We are dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming environment where everyone can thrive.

Harvard Medical School's mission is to nurture a diverse, inclusive community dedicated to alleviating suffering and improving health and well-being for all through excellence in teaching and learning, discovery and scholarship, and service and leadership.

You’ll be at the heart of biomedical discovery, education, and innovation, working alongside world-renowned faculty and a community dedicated to improving human health. This is more than a job - it’s an opportunity to shape the future of medicine.

HMS MED science seeks an experienced, innovative, and collaborative senior leader to join its leadership team as the Senior Director of Strategy, Advancement & Organizational Development. This newly created executive leadership role will help shape the organization's next chapters growth by supporting the infrastructure, partnerships, and organizational capacity needed to expand MED science's impact across Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, and beyond.

Founded eighteen years ago through a partnership between Harvard Medical School and Boston Public Schools, HMS MED science has grown into one of Harvard Medical School's most innovative educational initiatives, serving more than 4,500 students annually through immersive STEM education, medical simulation, workforce development, and biomedical engineering programs. HMS MED science is actively engaged in expanding partnerships and offerings at the local, regional, national and international levels.

Working in close collaboration with the Founding Executive Director and the senior leadership team, the Senior Director will provide strategic leadership across multiple enterprise-wide functions, including organizational development, advancement, human resources, communications, research and evaluation, and institutional partnerships. This individual will strengthen the systems in place, people, and resources to support MED science's growth while preserving the quality and innovation that define the organization.

• Provides expert advice to the Founding Executive Director to advance organizational priorities and strategic initiatives.
• Lead organization-wide initiatives that strengthen systems, policies, leadership development, and organizational effectiveness.
• Design and implement organizational structures and processes that support sustainable, new growth.
• Lead organizational planning, expansion initiatives, and emerging strategic opportunities.
• Assist in program development of key, current initiatives such as workforce development.
• Assist in developing policies and best practices that promote operational excellence.

• Lead strategic human resources functions across the organization.
• Design recruitment strategies for professional, instructional, and leadership positions.
• Develop job descriptions, organizational restructurings, and position reclassifications.
• Partner with HMS HR on recruitment, compensation, performance management, and employee relations.
• Design and direct leadership development strategies.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and high-performing organizational culture.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and accountability.

• Design knowledge capture and organizational learning strategies.
• Design organization-wide evaluation systems and develop organizational dashboards, performance metrics, and reporting systems.
• Lead educational research initiatives in collaboration with institutional partners.
• Lead the development of peer-reviewed publications, white papers, conference presentations, and institutional reports.
• Build collaborations with key partners including but not limited to Boston Public Schools,…