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Graduates of the UMass Boston Public Policy Program hold top-level professional positions such as:

• Executive Director of a community organization offering services for Latino immigrants in metro-Boston
• Superintendent of School,s, Knoxville County (TN)
• Policy Advisor to a regional office of a federal health agency
• Executive Director of a community organization offering services for Latino immigrants in metro-Boston
• tenure-track, visiting and adjunct faculty members in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, North Carolina and Texas
• Executive Director of a large, non-profit child-welfare and re-unification agency in Michigan
• Post-doc fellow and environmental consultant at world-famous Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Regional Capacity Building Director for a national non-profit, health promotion agency
• Senior Project Manager at Jobs for the Future
• energy policy research analyst
• health planner
• researcher/community liaison at a University policy institute

For a complete profile of our graduates, their dissertation topics and current employment, click here.

According to the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM),

"Graduates differ in the organization setting in which they work. Some graduates work for various levels of government, others work in non-profit organizations or in the private sector for consulting firms, for example. Some graduates focus on a specific issue areas, or others are generalists who work on a variety of issues. Some graduates work on issues domestically and others internationally. Some ... move back and forth between the public, private and nonprofit sector, or between an international setting and a domestic one. They can do this because the general public policy degree provides one with a set of research and analytical, and management skills that are often transferable across sectors, and often across issue areas. Graduates also differ in the type of work they do. Some conduct research on public policy issues. Others help implement various programs. Still others work to advocate positions on certain issues or lobby for specific legislation. Some teach in public policy schools."

From the APPAM website:

Careers in Public Policy Analysis and Management - Information for Job Seekers

Since its founding in 1979, APPAM has promoted career opportunities in the public policy analysis and management field. APPAM now is the co-sponsor of a new, comprehensive career website:

This new site offers job seekers many features and now is open for use. Among the features are the following:

• Advanced searches for job listings that match criteria
• Email and RSS alerts when new jobs match criteria
• Anonymous resume listings for employers to search throughout the year
• Special logos to indicate that a job seeker will be available for interviews during the APPAM Fall Research Conference (please see additional information under "Careers").
  

For all this and more, please visit www.PublicServiceCareers.org!

Contact us at public.policy@umb.edu for more information.

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