Project Manager, USC Public Exchange, Health & Well-being
Rachel Wald
USC Dornsife Public Exchange is reimagining how research serves the public. Public Exchange fast-tracks collaborations between academic researchers and partners across the public and private sectors to tackle complex problems together. In 2025, Public Exchange became a national network, launching its second location at Washington University in St. Louis.
USC Dornsife Public Exchange has a Health and Well-being Practice that has built collaborations to address food Insecurity, disaster recovery, healthcare worker and caregiver burnout, homelessness prevention, and more. It also has a Climate and Sustainability Practice that has built large-scale, high-impact collaborations such as ShadeLA and the California Solar Canal Initiative. Across both Practices, Public Exchange projects involve partnering with local government agencies, national non-profits, industry associations, health systems, companies, and more.
Public Exchange is hiring a Project Manager (PM) to support our growing team, with a portfolio focused within the Health and Well-being Practice. PMs are essential to the Public Exchange model — they help to identify new partners; scope research questions; draft proposals; develop, launch, and manage projects; and create rigorous, actionable, and high-impact deliverables. Ideal candidates will have a demonstrable commitment to social impact, familiarity with social issues of high national importance (particularly related to health and well-being), a high degree of intellectual curiosity, and the flexibility and willingness to learn and take on emerging challenges in new topic areas.