Program Director, Research and Operations
Role Overview
The Program Director will report to the Director of Private Capital Initiative.
In this role, you will help drive the Center's mission across content and research publications, program operations, and stakeholder engagement.
You will work in close partnership with the Rock Center and Executive Education teams, holding the full picture of what the Center has in motion and moving work from idea to delivery.
The role carries significant autonomy and direct exposure to faculty, sponsors, and senior leaders across industry, along with the judgment required for confidential and senior-level matters.
The substantive work is equally central.
Strong writing and analytical skills are critical, and the Center is looking for candidates who are fluent with AI tools in their daily work: drafting, research, design, and building internal workflows.
Job duties will include:
Research and publications
• Develop and manage our research programs: stakeholder outreach, resource decisions, program improvements, and the recommendations that shape our policies
• Identify and bring in new research opportunities, including collaborations with outside data providers and industry partners
• Take content end-to-end: publications, proposals, briefings, and event summaries. Hold the quality bar on anything that goes out under the Rock Center’s name, and help launch our new publication.
• Source data, run the analysis, and build the reports that drive our content and thought leadership engine
Program operations and execution
• Plan and execute the Rock Center calendar of summits, roundtables, dinners, and executive sessions, owning scope, timeline, budget, vendors, and follow-through
• Maintain and improve the systems that keep us running: CRM and contact management, registration and outreach workflows, project tracking, and reporting
• Contribute to program planning and the funding behind it, and help us maintain budget discipline
• Set priorities, track commitments across everything we have running, keep me ahead of what is coming, and make sure nothing slips
• Prepare agendas, briefings, and follow-ups for meetings with faculty, sponsors, donors, and senior industry people
• Manage scheduling, correspondence, and confidential material that comes with that work
Stakeholder engagement
• Serve as a key point of contact for our law firm and fund partners, sponsors, speakers, data collaborators, and alumni
• Contribute to outreach strategy for communications, partnerships, development, and funding
• Work closely with Rock Center and Exec Ed colleagues, and with Law School and GSB communications, events, and finance teams.
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Responsibilities
- Core Duties:
- Lead the planning and operations for programs or functions that have significant business, regulatory and/or technical challenges requiring subject matter expertise.
- Evaluate programs or functions, policies and procedures. Identify issues, and develop alternative solutions which may include changes to programs, policies and procedures.
- Review and analyze trends to advise and develop recommendations to achieve or modify the goals of the program or function.
- Represent the program or function within the department, unit or school. Commit resources and provide information and/or training. Represent the program or function at the university level and/or to external/internal stakeholders and constituencies.
- Manage and contribute to the development of outreach strategy that may include relationship development, communications and compliance.
- May develop and/or oversee budgets; manage finances including monitoring, analyzing, forecasting, and reporting.
- Assess training needs and may develop associated training.
- May direct and/or supervise staff.
- Minimum Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience, or combination of education and relevant experience.
- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Demonstrated ability to establish priorities, manage shifting priorities, and handle numerous time-sensitive projects with multiple deadlines.
- Ability to accomplish goals working through formal and informal channels, with diplomacy and tactfulness.
- Demonstrated creativity, problem solving, critical analysis, initiative, judgment and, decision-making skills.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and meet budget goals.
- Demonstrated solid planning and organizational skills.
- Demonstrated experience working independently and as part of a team.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
- Strong relevant subject matter knowledge.
- Ability to direct the work of others, for jobs requiring supervision.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and five years of relevant experience, or combination of education and relevant experience.
About SLAC
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