Why Harvard University
Why Harvard?
At Harvard, you’ll join a vibrant community that advances Harvard’s world-changing mission in meaningful ways, inspires innovation and collaboration, while letting you build your own skills and expertise. We invite you to explore the many reasons to work for Harvard.
- Our Mission and Values: Harvard is a strong, diverse, and dynamic community dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and sustainability. Our people – people like you – play a pivotal role in advancing knowledge, addressing global challenges like climate change, and shaping the future through education and research.
- Advancing the frontiers of innovation, knowledge, and leadership: Every employee at Harvard, in every role, inspires innovation, collaboration, creativity, and passion. We teach, guide, and support the next generation of thinkers and leaders. We create the tools, spaces, and processes that enable cutting-edge research.
- Sustainability and Impact: Sustainability is at the core of what we do every day. Through research, education, and our own actions, we pioneer solutions to address the challenges of climate change. We promote sustainability through our own operations, working locally to reduce our carbon footprint, and our research and work help shape national policy and foster international collaboration.
- Dynamic and Flexible Work Culture: Our dynamic work culture offers flexible options for on-campus, hybrid, and remote roles as well as part-time and full-time roles to support the wellbeing and engagement of our employees and advance our mission.
Our commitment to professional and career growth
Investing in your future is our priority. We encourage community members to explore opportunities across the University as your interests and goals evolve. We promote mobility across our community through internal job postings and educational programming specifically for internal job seekers. Your career growth and personal development contributes to our dynamic and collaborative environment and enriches our whole community.
- Learn about some of our opportunities for career development:
Our commitment to lifelong learning and education
At Harvard, we actively encourage learning, development, and growth at every stage of your career, with an array of resources for professional development, skill-building, and leadership training. Employees can benefit from tuition programs to further their education, supporting both personal and professional growth.
Our commitment to inclusion and belonging
Harvard prioritizes equity, inclusion, and belonging, recognizing that a diverse community fosters creativity, collaboration, and intellectual curiosity with a commitment to inclusive excellence.
We want you to find your community here. From Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and affinity groups to job search resources for veterans transitioning from active service to support for individuals with disabilities, our community works together to actively engage in networking, mentorship, and professional growth, fostering an inclusive and supportive environment.
Benefits, pay, time-off, and services to support you
Our holistic benefits package prioritizes the varied needs and preferences of our community, healthy work-life balance, and your wellbeing. Harvard provides competitive pay and a comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance and retirement plans funded by Harvard, additional tax-advantaged savings plans, and financial planning resources. Employees also have access to perks like legal support, identity protection, and discounts.
You are more than just your job. We offer generous paid time off and support for parents and those dealing with personal matters, as well as extensive programs for wellbeing support. See a summary of all we offer: