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Overview
The Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) is seeking a Chief of Staff to support the Dean and advance the school’s strategic priorities. As a member of the operational and strategic leadership team, the Chief of Staff leads key initiatives, manages high‑level relationships, oversees communications, and drives special projects. The role represents the Dean to university offices, faculty, staff, students, alumni, the New Haven community, and external partners.
Essential Duties
Serve as a confidential resource to and liaison for the Dean, handling the resolution of routine or complex, sensitive situations across the school, university and broader network with highly developed tact, discretion, and judgment.
Lead strategic initiatives and major projects originating from the Dean’s Office, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities, and tracking progress to completion; this includes leading search committees for mission critical staff roles.
Represent the Dean’s interests in meetings and engagements, ensuring consistent communication, alignment, and follow-up across stakeholders, and serving as a liaison with university and external partners to advance institutional priorities.
Partner extensively with the Executive Assistant to anticipate and manage requests for the Dean's time, creating systems to prioritize engagements and determine when matters require the Dean's, Deputy Deans’ or other senior staff involvement.
Develop briefings and presentations, synthesizing research and complex information, including historical data, biographical, and corporate profiles, into clear, actionable insights to ensure the Dean is fully prepared for presentations, meetings and events.
Facilitate high‑level meetings by preparing agendas, coordinating materials, establishing meeting cadences, and ensuring follow‑through on decisions and action items.
Distill complex, fast-moving discussions into precise written records, action logs, and communications while maintaining accuracy in quotations, terminology, and material details.
Strategize content and speakers for Dean’s Office events, review run of show for any significant event with Dean involvement and prepare Dean’s Office staff and others to support the Dean at events.
Oversee communications originating from the Dean’s Office, drafting or reviewing content, flow and quality, and archiving all communications.
Stay current on relevant world-wide business, alumni, and Yale SOM issues and alert Dean to evolving stories or trends.
Collaborate with the Dean’s Cabinet and Leadership Team, comprised of faculty deans and staff, and leaders across the university, to connect SOM and the university.
Create opportunities to communicate the strengths and values of the school.
Plan, direct, and manage administrative functions of the Dean’s Office, including supervision and development of staff.
Required Skills and Abilities
1. High level of flexibility, independent judgment, and ability to work with own initiative to represent the Dean and the Dean’s priorities to multiple stakeholder groups including senior staff, faculty, university representatives and New Haven community.
2. Exceptional research, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable insights.
3. Superb listening skills with the ability to capture and synthesize complex discussions in real time with exceptional precision and fidelity to exact language.
4. Outstanding communication and executive advisory skills, with experience developing briefings, reports, and presentations for senior leadership and various other constituents.
5. Ability to manage complex projects and other confidential and high stakes matters with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgment, in a timely and efficient manner.
Preferred Skills and Abilities
1. MBA or other relevant graduate degree.
2. Experience leading projects in higher education that engage many stakeholders.
Principal Responsibilities
1. Directs one or more functional areas within an administrative department of the University and ensure compliance with University policies and procedures. 2. Directs analytic and research support for educational policies and planning and develops and approves administrative policies affecting assigned functional areas of the University. 3. Directs and establishes parameters for major projects for the department and University. 4. Interprets federal policies and regulations and educates staff and administration about regulations, restrictions, and the legal responsibilities of the University. 5. Directs and implements policy and program modifications and develops standards to ensure compliance with federal, state and local regulations. 6. Develops and administers an operating budget for the assigned department consistent with University policies and procedures. 7. Develops cost savings objectives and goals; authorizes major purchases and negotiates contracts that range from routine to complex in nature. 8. Establishes and implements long- and short-range goals for the functional area consistent with University goals and objectives. 9. Directs the development of related automated systems to support the function; determines office policies and procedures for use of automated systems. 10. Directs the evaluation and selection of vendors and negotiates contract details including work steps and pricing with the vendors on behalf of the assigned functional area. 11. Works with internal and external contacts to solve problems that range from routine to complex in nature. 12. Represents the University in discussions and negotiations with various governmental agencies. 13. Directs a staff of exempt and nonexempt employees. 14. May perform other duties as assigned.
Required Education and Experience Bachelor’s Degree in related field. Seven years of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Job Posting Date
06/22/2026
Job Category
Manager
Bargaining Unit
NON
Compensation Grade
Administration & Operations
Compensation Grade Profile
Leader (28)
Salary Range
$124,000.00 - $206,500.00
Time Type
Full time
Duration Type
Staff
Work Model
Hybrid
Background Check Requirements
All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.
Health Requirements
Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.
Posting Disclaimer
Salary offers are determined by a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education in relation to the position requirements, along with the role’s grade profile and current internal and external market conditions.
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring department.
The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual’s sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.
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