Executive Director, Harris Social Impact Fellowship

Responsibilities

• Independently leads the strategic design and evolution of the Fellowship as a flagship Harris initiative, ensuring alignment with School priorities, University-wide initiatives, and the multi-year growth strategy approved by Harris leadership.
• Sets and protects the academic and experiential standards that define the HSIF model, exercising independent judgment on program design questions within the framework established with the Faculty Director and Associate Dean.
• Represents the Fellowship to senior University leadership, advisory stakeholders, external partner institutions, and academic and policy audiences, ensuring cohesive messaging, institutional alignment, and executive-level stakeholder confidence.
• Produces program-substance materials that inform institutional advancement work, including impact data, programmatic updates, briefing materials, and presentations used by the Alumni Relations and Development team in donor stewardship; participates in donor-facing convenings when program substan

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Additional Information

Department Harris School Social Impact Fellowship About the Department Policy with real impact doesn't evolve from ideology or intuition, or even experience. At the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, developing effective public policy is a science, based on data and measurable impact.Addressing today's interconnected, global challenges requires rigorous inquiry. It also requires innovative people who will face the facts, gather data, and understand why current policies exist to improve them.For more than 30 years, the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy has been steadfastly committed to serving society by advancing analysis- and evidence-informed policy. Guided by this exacting mission, our community of faculty, students, and alumni from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors are taking on the world's most important problems by using the latest tools of social science.Harris Public Policy offers a full range of degree and executive education programs and is the academic home to research centers, institutes, and labs that study and engage the public on areas such as conflict, democracy and effective government, economic and political development, education, energy and environment, health, municipal finance, public safety, social policy, and urban policy. Job Summary The Executive Director provides strategic, programmatic, financial, and operational leadership for the Harris Social Impact Fellowship (HSIF), a flagship initiative of the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. Reporting to the Associate Dean of Executive Education and Partnerships and working in close partnership with the Faculty Director, the Executive Director holds independent authority over the Fellowship's programmatic direction, multi-year growth strategy, fellow experience, partnership portfolio, and operations. The Executive Director manages a complex stakeholder ecosystem spanning faculty across multiple UChicago units, research centers, fellows, alumni, external host institutions, peer programs, and the Harris senior leadership team. The role exercises decision rights on selection, partnership scope, budget allocation within the program, and staff hiring within the program team. The Executive Director ensures academic rigor, programmatic excellence, measurable impact, and financial sustainability as HSIF scales and expands its systematic impact across sectors. The Executive Director represents the Fellowship to senior University leadership, external partner institutions, and academic and policy audiences, safeguarding its reputation while advancing Harris' mission to develop evidence-based leaders committed to social impact.

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