Community and Belonging Project Coordinator

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Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is a nonsectarian school of religious and theological studies that educates students both in the pursuit of the academic study of religion and in preparation for leadership in religious, governmental, and a wide range of service organizations. HDS provides an intellectual home where scholars and professionals from around the globe research and teach the varieties of religion, in service of a just world at peace across religious and cultural divides.

The Harvard Divinity School (HDS) Office for Community and Belonging (OCB) supports the vital work of advancing our school’s vision of a just world at peace across religious and cultural divides. HDS educates and equips people of diverse backgrounds and viewpoints to build a world where all people can flourish and live across religious and cultural divides. The mission of OCB is to provide restorative, holistic support to our School and foster conditions—inside and outside the classroom—in which every member of HDS’s pluralistic community can cultivate connection, build trust, learn from others, and promote the well‑being of one another as we develop the capacity to work across difference, as guided and held by an ethic of care.

The Office for Community and Belonging Project Coordinator is integral to the work of helping OCB carry out its mission, in collaboration with other HDS departments, in furtherance of the vision of HDS.

This position provides a broad range of high-level support for the department including planning events, managing communications, and organizing projects. Roles and responsibilities include:

• Managing projects such as organizing community gatherings, responding to inquiries, space and technology maintenance, purchasing supplies, preparing vendor payments and office reimbursements.
• Providing support for in-person and virtual events from development to implementation including: working with the team to identify relevant topics, appropriate speakers, and materials needed for a variety of programs and initiatives; coordinating space, catering, vendor arrangements, event and program logistics; compiling event-related information such as descriptions, biographies, photos, consent forms, presentation slides, etc.
• Supporting the daily operations of the office including scheduling meetings, tracking inventory, calendar management and helping to stabilize the operational capacity of the HDS OCB office.
• Capturing meeting minutes and distributing notes and action items to committee members and others as needed.
• Supporting the work of restorative strategic planning for the HDS OCB office; contributing to and engaging in strategic discussions as an active member of the team.
• Helping to develop and curate resources for equipping members of the HDS community (faculty, staff, and students) for building a world where all people can flourish and live across religious and cultural divides, including materials for website development.
• Reviewing and updating content calendar in weekly team meetings.

• Program evaluation: gathering and interpreting analytics regarding restorative OCB programming to assess programming and support future research and writing projects.
• Liaising with teams across HDS and Harvard to share upcoming events to help strengthen relationships and collaborate with HDS OCB…