Job Summary

The Portfolio Director for the Harvard Institutes of Higher Education (HIHE) is responsible for designing and implementing a strategy to nurture, assess, refine and expand a portfolio of professional development offerings for higher education professionals, faculty, and leaders across the US and globally. Programs may be delivered in a variety of modalities including on-campus, at client sites in the US and overseas, online live with facilitation, asynchronous online programs, and on-demand models. The HIHE Director leads and manages this portfolio in close collaboration with PPE leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Harvard faculty, and key institutional stakeholders. As integral members of the HGSE Professional Education team PDs join a dynamic group of colleagues who empower educators to build competencies, skills, and networks necessary to have positive impact in the field of education.

Position Description

Portfolio Development and Management. Serve as an administrative leader of a portfolio of executive education programs and related professional development opportunities. 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 and create new HIHE programs that best serve the needs of the field, with attention to portfolio coherence, quality, relevance, accessibility, and sustainability.

Program Design and Delivery. Serve as product manager of each HIHE offering. 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. 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).

Strategic Outreach and Internal/External Relationship Management. Plan and implement strategic outreach to organizations, school systems, government agencies, and/or donors to build robust participant pools for programs in the portfolio. Develop custom engagements for learners and organizations within and outside the U.S. as applicable, with a particular focus on international universities.Conduct sector outreach (webinars, conferences, direct relationship-building with clients), engagement, and program alumni relations activities, ensuring that prospective and past participants have ongoing connection to each other, HIHE, and HGSE.

Qualifications:

• Graduate degree required. Minimum 5 years of experience in college or university administrative or other directly related experience.
• Prior leadership experience in higher education strongly desired. A strong candidate has a deep understanding of and experience with the challenges, opportunities, and leadership context of higher education administrators and faculty, preferably from multiple institutions. Demonstrated experience collaborating successfully with senior faculty is also highly desirable.
• The position is on the Harvard GSE campus in Cambridge, MA.

Apply to https://careers.harvard.edu/job/portfolio-director-harvard-institutes-for-higher-education-in-cambridge-ma-united-states-jid-1272.  Candidates must submit a cover letter in order to be considered.  Position ID: 002557SR. Inquiries may be sent to jonathan_lehrich@gse.harvard.edu.