Portfolio Director, Harvard Institutes Education

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As integral members of the HGSE Professional Education team Portfolio Directors join a dynamic group of colleagues focused on empowering educators to build competencies, skills, and networks necessary to have positive impact in the field of education. Directors build, lead, and cultivate a portion of Professional Education program offerings. All programs are designed to support our mission of equipping education leaders, practitioners, and advocates with knowledge and skills to improve student access, opportunity, and success.

• Serve as an administrative leader of a portfolio of executive education programs and related professional development opportunities as part of HGSE’s Professional Education program designed to support educational leaders across the US and globally.
• Build and maintain a deep understanding of the broad landscape of professional development programs serving higher education leaders and proactively cultivate robust relationships with lead organizations, colleges, universities, and individuals to stay abreast of trends in the field.
• Work with HGSE faculty to explore new HIHE programs that best serve the needs of the field as informed by data and active discourse with sector leaders and key PPE client organizations.
• In collaboration with the Senior Portfolio Director, research, propose and vet ideas regarding a strategic direction for the overall size and shape of the portfolio with attention to portfolio coherence as well as program quality, relevance, accessibility, and sustainability.
• Collect, analyze, and utilize data to inform and implement PPE decisions about program frequency, updates, and retirements.

• Collaborate with faculty on overarching program vision and architecture. Work with faculty chairs and the Marketing team to develop program learning objectives and descriptions, and to determine the characteristics of target audiences. Collaborate with and work in support of faculty chairs to determine program presenters and learning activities. Identify, train, and manage program facilitators.
• With support from the Finance team, develop and manage program budgets, contributing to cost‑effective program management.
• Inform, monitor, and participate in marketing and admissions processes for assigned programs to develop optimal cohorts, identify growth opportunities, and suggest mitigation strategies for enrollment challenges in partnership with PPE’s Marketing and Client Engagement teams.
• Work closely with the PPE Program Delivery Team to collaboratively plan and execute all aspects of program delivery to ensure a high‑quality learner experience in every program modality (residential, live online, asynchronous online, blended).
• Collaborate with PPE’s Innovation and Insights Team to conduct program debriefs. Identify and drive follow‑up on strengths and areas for development. Leverage best‑practices in learning design to foster interactivity and the application of learning to problems of practice.

• Plan and implement strategic outreach to organizations, school…