Harvard University
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FacultyAssistantandProgramCoordinator
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“Faculty Assistant and Program Coordinator at Harvard University. Skills: administrative support, scheduling, communication, task management, relationship management. Provide operational support to Professor Ganz and a dynamic team of 6–12 teaching fellows, ensuring seamless delivery of courses. Manage day-to-day course needs, including editing and printing materials, updating course websites, scheduling office hours, obtaining copyright permissions, and entering grades. Coordinate course technol”
What You'll Achieve.
The Practicing Democracy Project supports practitioners and students to develop the skills, relationships, and capacities needed for democratic renewal. It focuses on equipping individuals and organizations to engage in the work of organizing, building power, and fostering democratic practices.
Industry & Context.
This is a fully benefits eligible term appointment ending one year from date of hire, with the possibility of renewal. Standard Hours/Schedule: 35 hours per week. Harvard University is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Pre-Employment Screening: Identity.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2 years’ experience in an office environment, including demonstrated office administration and customer service skills. Internships will count toward experience.
Nice to Have
Bachelor’s degree preferred.
What You'll Do.
Provide operational support to Professor Ganz and a dynamic team of 6–12 teaching fellows, ensuring seamless delivery of courses.
Manage day-to-day course needs, including editing and printing materials, updating course websites, scheduling office hours, obtaining copyright permissions, and entering grades.
Coordinate course technology needs.
Contribute to a supportive team culture by reliably fulfilling individual responsibilities, proactively assisting colleagues, and contributing to the effective functioning of the broader teaching and programmatic work.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Contribute to a and supportive team culture by reliably fulfilling individual responsibilities, proactively assisting colleagues when needed, and contributing to the effective functioning of the broader teaching and programmatic work.
Communication Scope
communication
Full Job 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. Why join the Harvard Kennedy School? The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University is one of 12 graduate and professional schools at the university. Harvard Kennedy School’s mission is to improve public policy and leadership so people can live in societies that are more safe, free, just, and sustainably prosperous. By combining cutting-edge research, the teaching of outstanding students, and direct interaction with practitioners, we have an impact on solving public problems that no other institution can match. When you work at Harvard Kennedy School, you make a difference. Professor Marshall Ganz is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Faculty Director of the Practicing Democracy Project (PDP) at the Center for Public Leadership. His teaching and research focus on leadership, narrative, organizing, and civic engagement, with an emphasis on how people build collective power to create change. The Practicing Democracy Project supports practitioners and students to develop the skills, relationships, and capacities needed for democratic renewal. It focuses on equipping individuals and organizations to engage in the work of organizing, building power, and fostering democratic practices. Through teaching, research, and practitioner partnerships, PDP explores how democracy is not only a system of governance, but lived, daily practice. Professor Ganz teaches three courses: Organizing: People, Power, Change ; Public Narrative ; and Being Human. His courses, which are taught both in person and online, draw hundreds of students and practitioners from around the world and are grounded in a practice-based approach to leadership development. Hi
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