Open Positions

• Liaise with the administration to ensure PDA representation at the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) meeting
• Coordinate annual meetings with the Dean’s Office, etc.
• Organize elections with the president

Establish and manage the Harvard Chan PDA budget, present a summary of financial activities of the PDA at council meetings, and to represent the PDA in financial dealings with the School and other campus entities.

(Also a member of the Communications Committee) Organize PDA Council Meetings, keep and make meeting minutes and record attendance of the meeting. Maintain familiarity with PDA bylaws, advise organization adherence to bylaws, monitor needed changes or amendments to the bylaws.   

Work in conjunction with the Curriculum Fellows Program in developing Nanocourses led by Harvard Chan Postdocs and Research Associates. 

Maintain and update PDA website and online public repository of PDA documents. Coordinate and maintain external communication channels of the PDA such as display case, social media, and newsletter distribution. Work with other committees to coordinate email dissemination for events and make flyers and PDA Newsletter.  

• Organize programs and events that can allow postdocs and research associates from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health to develop soft skills (in time and/or project management, for example), and get better prepared for their next career step (career panels, events on job talks, networking and salary negotiation, etc.)
• Maintain a repository of career resources on the PDA website (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/pda/career-development-activities/)
• Co-run a mentoring program for postdoctoral fellows and research associates with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Research Scientist Association
• Work collaboratively with Alumni, and other offices (Office of Faculty Affairs, Postdoc offices, etc.) and Postdoctoral Associations from other schools to organize joint career/professional development events

Maintain social calendar, organize, and evaluate social events for postdocs and research associates. Such activities include such as pub nights, ice-cream socials, trivia nights, postdoc-faculty mixers and volunteering events such as annual Charles river cleanup, soup kitchen volunteering, etc. 

Organize and manage the PDA Spring and Fall Travel Awards, Outstanding Mentor Award, Kocaeli Travel Award, and Runze Huang Community Award.

Work with other officers of the council in advancing PDA’s agenda. Such activities include assisting the duties of council chairs, assume representation role to Harvard Chan Dean’s Advisory CDI, Boston-PDA, and NPA, and coordinate ad-hoc activities such as poster day, conference and international travel awards, and postdoc mentor award. At-large representatives can also suggest the formation of a new committee or join existing core committee(s).

Available representative positions:

• Representative (At-Large)
• Representative (At-Large)
• Representative (At-Large)
• Representative (Department of Environmental Health)
• Representative (Department of Epidemiology)
• Representative (Department of Global Health and Population)
• Representative (Department of Health Policy and Management)
• Representative (Immunology and Infectious Diseases)
• Representative (Molecular Metabolism)
• Representative (Nutrition)
• Representative (Social and Behavioral Sciences)