Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program

Harvard Center for the Environment; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Relocation allowance

Travel allowance

Job summary

Harvard University Center for the Environment invites applications for Environmental Fellows to work for two years with Harvard faculty across any school or department, while strengthening cross-disciplinary connections within the University.

The fellowship offers a $92,000 annual salary, employee health insurance eligibility, up to $2,500 relocation reimbursement, and a $2,500 annual travel/professional expenses allowance.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have completed terminal degree between May 2023 and August 2027.
• Doctorate or equivalent in any field is eligible; PhD not mandatory for all fields.
• All successful candidates will demonstrate experience performing scholarly research.

Responsibilities

• Secure a commitment from Harvard faculty to serve as mentor and provide office or lab space for the two-year fellowship.
• Work with Harvard faculty across schools or departments and strengthen cross-disciplinary connections.

Skills

Scholarly research

Education

Doctorate or equivalent (PhD)

Job description

Harvard University Environmental Fellows Program

https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16664

The Harvard University Center for the Environment created the Environmental Fellows program to enable recent doctorate recipients to use and expand Harvard's extraordinary resources to tackle complex environmental problems. The Environmental Fellows will work for two years with Harvard faculty members in any school or department while also strengthening connections across the University's academic disciplines.

The Award:

The fellowship includes a salary of $92,000 per year, employee health insurance eligibility, up to $2,500 reimbursement for relocation expenses, and a $2,500 annual allowance for travel and other professional expenses.

The Center for the Environment expects to award approximately five fellowships for the 2027cohort. The Center will organize a co-curricular program to ensure that the fellows get to know each other and each other's work. All fellows willattend dinnerswith their colleagues, faculty members, and guests.

Program Requirements:

Candidates for 2027Environmental Fellowships should have received their terminal degree between May 2023and August 2027. (Fellows must have filed their dissertation before starting their appointment in September 2027.)

Candidates with a doctorate or equivalent in any field are eligible, and they may propose research projects in any discipline. Applicants without a Ph.D. may apply if they have studied in fields where the Ph.D. is not the typical terminal degree. All successful candidates will be able todemonstrateexperience performing scholarly research.

Each candidate must secure a commitment from one or more Harvard faculty members to serve as a mentor and to provide office or lab space for the two-year fellowship

Candidates may have received their degrees at any university in the world. Foreign nationals are eligible for fellowships, though study at Harvard requiresproficiencyin English.

Candidates who received terminal degrees from Harvard, and post-docs currently working at Harvard are eligible for the fellowship provided their research and host arrangements take them in new directions and forge new connections within the University. Harvard candidates should not proposeto continueto work with the same professors or lab groups with whom they are currently associated. No candidate should propose to work extensively with their thesis advisor.

Harvard is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.

Successful candidates should be prepared to commit to work at Harvard for the full two years of the fellowship. This fellowship requires residency in the Cambridge, MAareaand any fieldwork trip must be scheduled for the summer or January recess.