Project Manager, Reimagining Economy

Reimagining the Economy Project – Project Manager

• School/Unit:
  Harvard Kennedy School
• Department:
  Center for International Development
• Job Function:
  General Administration
• Location:
  
  Cambridge
• Job Type: Full-time
• Salary Grade: 057
• FLSA Status:
  Exempt
• Union: 00 - Non Union, Exempt or Temporary
• Term Appointment:
  Yes

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The Reimagining the Economy Project (RtE) at the Harvard Kennedy School is recruiting a Project Manager for its new Global Economic Transformation initiative. The successful applicant will work closely with the RtE leadership team, graduate students, and other researchers within a tight‑knit academic community at the Center for International Development, and in collaboration with the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and the Taubman Center for State and Local Government.

This position will engage with RtE's new Global Economic Transformation initiative, through which we are creating an international network of policy practitioners who are experimenting with new approaches to local, regional, and national economic development, and addressing challenges such as the creation of good jobs, growth in the services sector, and the green energy transition.

Founded in 2022, RtE is a multi‑year research initiative that integrates a range of ideas, disciplinary thinking, and perspectives to produce multidisciplinary scholarship that reshapes narratives about how we achieve inclusive prosperity. The project develops, integrates, and disseminates three kinds of knowledge: (1) quantitative evidence on local labor market, industrial, and development policies in the U.S. and other national contexts; (2) the experiential knowledge of policy practitioners on questions of institutional constraints and opportunities;

and (3) the perspectives of social and organizational theorists on the inequality‑perpetuating features of existing institutions and possible alternative arrangements.

The successful candidate will work with the project's leadership team on the following activities:

• Develop the cadence and approach for a multistakeholder global community of practice, and engage and coordinate practitioners from governments and social enterprises from around the world.
• Prepare and disseminate policy and research briefs.
• Organize virtual and in‑person convenings, prepare participants for meetings and develop meeting agendas in collaboration with the project leadership team.
• Direct outreach to stakeholders in academia, the practitioner community, and civil society.
• Manage the Global Economic Transformation Project's communications, including website and blogs.

• Recruit predoctoral fellows and graduate research assistants, assist in recruiting postdoctoral fellows and visiting scholars.
• Manage research protocols and contracts, including data safety and data use agreements, IRB applications, vendor agreements, and so on.
• Manage timelines and deliverables for the project.
• Provide project updates to the project leadership team.

• Organize project meetings, workshops, and conferences.
• Prepare interim grant reports and updated grant budgets for project funders.
• Provide general management on finances, administration, workflow, and culture.
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