Perry World House Climate Change Program Manager

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The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn’s distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning. As an employer Penn has been ranked nationally on many occasions with the most recent award from Forbes who named Penn one of America’s Best Large Employers in 2023.

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The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.

Posted Job Title

Perry World House Climate Change Program Manager

Job Profile Title

Manager C, Academic Affairs, Global Affairs

Job Description Summary

A Perry World House Program Manager brings the Penn academic community together with policymakers and practitioners to advance policy solutions to complex global challenges. The Climate Change Program Manager’s portfolio of research initiatives and projects will initially traverse the topics of (1) human vulnerability to climate change, (2) global finance for climate change, and (3) sub-national climate action, and (4) the Geopolitics of Climate Action.. The Program Manager will understand the links between these topics as well as their connections to the achievement of globally agreed development goals, such as those outlined in the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement, and by other multilateral fora. They will also have a solid understanding of the intersection of their portfolio and other core areas of Perry World House research in human rights, democracy, and security.

Through strategic convenings, relationship management, publications, and private and public engagements, the Program Manager will facilitate interdisciplinary research in partnership with Penn faculty and various affiliates of Perry World House. The Program Manager will drive a menu of initiatives meant to put Penn’s academic expertise at the center of global policy discussions and assure that academia and policymakers from a variety of institutional and country contexts are working together to advance solutions and solve global problems.

Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• Identify prospective Visiting Fellows and Scholars and manage the related outreach, visit planning, and outputs of these visitors, as well as their integration into World House research.
• Build a high-level and diverse network of stakeholders at the fore of policy action, working to assure they have the ideas and research they need for impactful decision m