Program Manager, External Partnerships, Office Dean

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The Program Manager for External Partnerships provides strategic leadership and comprehensive management of Yale School of Public Health’s external partnerships portfolio—stewarding existing relationships, leading engagement across faculty and administrative units, and owning the systems that make the partnership pipeline run smoothly and predictably. Reporting to the Chief of Staff & Senior Strategist, this position is driving the development and execution of high‑value partnerships, ensuring alignment across stakeholders, and translating relationships and commitments into sustained institutional impact.

In addition to managing the existing portfolio, the role carries a forward‑looking mandate to grow the number and value of YSPH’s external partnerships and identify new opportunities for collaboration, funding and strategic engagement. Working closely with leadership and faculty, the Program Manager identifies prospective partners, cultivates new relationships, and shapes the strategy and linkages to existing infrastructure that will allow the School’s engagements to scale over time.

The position exercises significant independent judgment and is expected to represent YSPH’s partnerships externally.

The role requires a professional who blends program administration, relationship management, and business development—ensuring that current partnerships thrive while laying the groundwork for future growth.

• With a substantial degree of initiative, this position will conceive, develop, and implement partnerships, programs, and activities while supporting YSPH’s mission, strategy, and annual goals and objectives. Identify internal and external stakeholders to establish and steward relationships with to cultivate these partnerships.

• Manages the day‑to‑day operations of YSPH’s external partnership portfolio, including the promotion, development, and support of intellectual exchange, requiring comprehensive understanding of both YSPH’s research, mission, and goals and the University’s administrative mechanisms that facilitate external partnerships. Serves as the primary operational point of contact for designated partners, ensuring timely and professional engagement.

• Develops, maintains, and continuously improves the partnership pipeline—establishing new or leveraging existing systems and workflows to track prospects, active partnerships, deliverables, renewals, and follow‑up activities, and reducing friction across each stage of the partner lifecycle.

• Ensures that program activities and partnerships operate within the policies and procedures of the University and YSPH, including the execution of formal agreements (whether through MOU, contract, etc.).

• Determines administrative workflows and executes across internal Yale stakeholders—faculty, research units, development, sponsored programs, and administrative offices to drive implementation and route partner interests to the right people and ensure commitments are fulfilled accurately and on time.

• Designs and executes partner‑facing activities including meetings, site visits, workshops, sponsored projects, and engagement events. Defines purpose and programming for these activities, including agenda setting; oversees logistics.

• Builds and maintains a CRM or tracking system for partnership data, generating regular reports on pipeline health, engagement activity, and partnership outcomes for leadership.

• Develops…