Jobs at Brandeis University

Develops and leads student community engagement, service, and leadership programs, including VolunteerFest, MLK Day of Service, mentoring, alternative breaks, and service awards. Advises student leaders, builds campus-community partnerships, oversees risk management and compliance, manages budgets and events, supports strategic planning, and supervises professional staff, graduate assistants, student employees, and interns. Requires occasional evening and weekend work.

Develop a non-credit hybrid microcredential course on fundraising communication and development writing for Jewish nonprofit professionals. Responsibilities include creating a Brandeis-compliant syllabus, multimedia materials, learning objects, assessments, and substantive content; serving as the fundraising subject matter expert; collaborating with instructional designers and online staff; meeting LMS requirements; and submitting drafts for review and approval.

Leads Brandeis University's DISC Post-Award Office and provides university-wide oversight of sponsored-project administration from award activation through closeout. Directs staff, portfolios, policies, financial management, compliance, forecasting, reporting, systems governance, training, and process improvement. Serves as the senior escalation point for complex post-award matters and collaborates with academic and central administrative leaders to improve research administration services, controls, and operational efficiency.

Directs Brandeis University’s Upward Bound program for first-generation and low-income high school students. Responsibilities include recruiting and advising students, engaging families, supervising staff and mentors, developing academic and summer activities, managing budgets, tracking outcomes, ensuring federal compliance, and building partnerships with the high school, community organizations, and university departments.

Oversee undergraduate academic and faculty-related operations for assigned departments and programs. Manage curriculum planning, course assignments, registration processes, academic records, calendars, awards, thesis defenses, faculty searches, and tenure and promotion cases. Provide guidance to students and faculty, prepare reports and data requests, coordinate meetings and academic events, and recommend process improvements. Support department chairs, advising heads, faculty, students, and cross-functional university groups.

Supports post-award administration and financial oversight of federal and non-federal grants, contracts, sub-awards, and fellowships. Responsibilities include budget development, expense forecasting, account reconciliation in Workday, burn-rate monitoring, payroll costing adjustments, compliance reviews, financial reporting, invoice documentation, cross-functional issue resolution, and grant closeout activities.

Reviews financial aid applications, determines student eligibility, awards grants and loans, conducts verification, evaluates appeals, counsels students and families, maintains accurate records, and manages specialized financial aid programs. Provides leadership to Assistant Directors and serves as a senior point of contact for financial aid operations and compliance.

Plans, coordinates, and executes university, departmental, signature, corporate, and summer conference events. Manages budgets, speakers, facilities, technology, equipment, accommodations, catering, contracts, logistics, and on-site operations. Evaluates event requirements, improves planning processes, markets external events, and collaborates with campus departments and stakeholders while providing guidance on event best practices.

Conducts quantitative and qualitative research across community-based behavioral health projects. Responsibilities include managing projects and budgets, curating complex datasets, documenting data processes, collecting study data, supporting IRB communications, coordinating stakeholders, preparing reports and presentations, and contributing to manuscripts and public-facing materials.

Supports and enhances the Workday platform across HCM, Finance, and Student modules. Responsibilities include configuration, business process and object maintenance, reporting, data integrity, troubleshooting, security and integration issue resolution, release testing, documentation, and user support. The analyst gathers requirements, assists with implementations and project coordination, collaborates with university departments and project managers, and recommends process improvements while maintaining awareness of Workday developments.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, documents, monitors, and troubleshoots Workday integrations and applications across HCM, Finance, Student, PRISM, and Extend. Partners with HR, Finance, Student teams, vendors, and stakeholders to gather requirements, improve processes, support Workday releases, ensure security and compliance, and guide technical roadmap decisions.

Manage and strategize divisional operating and capital budgets, prepare projections and annual budget loads, monitor spending, reconcile monthly and annual accounts, audit payroll entries, process invoices, contracts, royalties, and provide first-level procurement/accounting support. Produce financial reports, meet with department managers, and coordinate with Budget and Controllers offices and divisional leadership.

Part-time (20 hrs/week) undergraduate summer intern supporting the ECKS-O study: assist with field and remote survey data collection, quality control, quantitative and qualitative analysis, transcription proofreading, presentation prep, and project administrative tasks. Attend meetings and record action items.

The Grants and Finance Administrator manages university and sponsored program funds, ensuring compliance, budget monitoring, and grant policy administration while collaborating with faculty and staff.

Assist professors with academic research in business, economics, econometrics, data analytics, and finance. Work under faculty supervision on research tasks during a 10-week, part-time (20 hours/week) appointment at the university.

Serve as the operational lead for Student Accessibility Support: manage office communications and operations, recruit and supervise student staff, oversee assistive technology and loan programs, provide accessibility trainings and document remediation, and support exams, events, and departmental operations.

Manage and steward employer and alumni relationships to drive repeat engagement; guide employers through hiring and internship processes; own employer-side Handshake operations and CRM records; create employer resources and track data to inform outreach; coordinate across Career Services and share employer insights; participate in professional development and perform related operational tasks.

Lead development and operations of university-wide experiential learning programs (internships, research partnerships, fellowships, community-engaged work). Build partnerships with employers, alumni, faculty, donors, and IT; design systems and a student platform; track participation and outcomes; supervise one assistant director and represent the function across campus.

Develops and implements public programs and community engagement initiatives for exhibitions and collections. Manages event planning and execution, outreach, partnerships, budgets, interns/vendors, and digital marketing support. Regular on-site presence with periodic evenings/weekends. Tracks records, evaluations, and funding opportunities while collaborating with curatorial, education, campus, and community partners to increase participation and accessibility.

Create, edit, and publish audience-centered web content across university sites; apply SEO/GEO and accessibility best practices; collaborate with stakeholders, designers, and editorial teams; contribute to site redesign and content strategy; use CMS, analytics, and AI tools to optimize content and measure performance.