Government Performance Lab Fellow

• Manage and coordinate projects while navigating complex organizational structures, including developing workplans and balancing multiple workstreams across various government entities.
• Conduct interviews and site visits with government officials, community stakeholders, and people with lived experience to help identify service delivery barriers and inform solutions.
• Help governments match and analyze administrative data to measure population outcomes, understand cost-effectiveness, and form insights that can improve service delivery.
• Facilitate meetings, trainings, and workshops to advance project work and build capacity; provide coaching to permanent government staff.

This role directly improves government performance and strengthens access to public benefits for children and families, helping to create more just and effective service systems and shrink the harm of punitive government responses.

• At least three years of full-time professional work experience.
• Strong project management capabilities—the ability to independently execute project tasks and meet key project deadlines.
• Ability to navigate complex organizations, develop trust and credibility with stakeholders, and build strong relationships among diverse groups.
• Ability to communicate ideas clearly, efficiently, and with humility both verbally and in writing, including through slide decks, meeting facilitation, memos, delivery of trainings, and public speaking.

Annual salary of $92,000 plus benefits. This is a term appointment ending one year from date of hire, with possibility of renewal. The role will receive a Harvard appointment as a Fellow.

The Harvard Kennedy School Government Performance Lab accelerates progress on difficult social problems by improving how state and local governments across the country function, collaborating closely with government innovators to create more just and effective service systems.