Jobs at Brown University

Leads fundraising operations for major and principal-level donors across regional programs. Responsibilities include cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donor relationships; designing and executing engagement activities; coordinating proposals and advancement initiatives; prioritizing University leadership involvement; managing confidential prospect information; and training Development Associates and Coordinators. The role requires strong planning, communication, analytical, CRM, data management, and presentation skills, with occasional evening and weekend availability.

Supports Brown University's College through workflow automation, data gathering, analysis, visualization, dashboard maintenance, and operational reporting. The specialist maintains existing data systems, designs and tests algorithmic solutions, coordinates the university-wide course feedback process, and helps implement new systems with analysts and engineers. The role also provides operational support, collaborates with faculty and staff, protects sensitive information, and translates complex technical findings into actionable insights for leadership.

Supports the Vice President of Development and Principal Gift Program by coordinating donor communications, stewardship, proposals, prospect pipelines, briefings, events, scheduling, and follow-up. Manages information repositories, provides strategic and logistical support, and represents the VP across Advancement. Requires strong organization, discretion, communication, relationship-building, project management, and proficiency with Microsoft, Google, presentation, and virtual meeting platforms.

Coordinates fundraising campaigns, donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, gift pipelines, advisory councils, events, and academic-unit relationships. Provides advanced administrative support to development directors, including drafting proposals and briefings, tracking stewardship, arranging meetings and travel, maintaining databases, and supporting technology and logistics. Collaborates with academic leaders, advancement teams, donors, alumni, trustees, and faculty to execute fundraising priorities and annual campaigns.

Leads strategic sourcing and category management, primarily for IT procurement, by analyzing spend, developing sourcing strategies, managing RFPs, negotiating contracts, tracking savings, and overseeing supplier performance. Reviews requisitions, ensures policy compliance, manages procurement technologies, supports supplier diversity initiatives, trains stakeholders, reports metrics, and leads process improvement and supplier engagement projects.

Provides pre- and post-award grants administration and financial support for engineering faculty and school leadership. Coordinates grant proposal submissions, reviews awards for compliance, manages budgets and expenditures, reconciles accounts, prepares financial reports, and supports payroll costing, effort certifications, cost transfers, journal entries, subcontract requisitions, and expense approvals. Communicates policies, handles confidential information, maintains accurate records, and supports research administration in a collaborative, deadline-oriented environment.

Administers and supports operational applications for university departments, including configuration, troubleshooting, tier 1 triage, reporting, integrations, automation, security questions, and vendor contract support. Participates in application implementations, upgrades, roadmap planning, process improvements, and project scheduling. Provides technical assistance to staff and supports critical systems in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Leads recruitment strategy and talent acquisition for Brown University's Advancement division. Develops inclusive sourcing and recruiting strategies, builds diverse candidate pipelines, manages searches, advises hiring managers, and improves recruitment practices and tools. The role oversees ATS usage, behavioral interviewing, reporting, employment-law compliance, stakeholder communication, and collaboration with HR partners. This is a hybrid position requiring at least two days per week in Providence, Rhode Island.

Supports university research on wearable health-monitoring sensors through design, fabrication, optical experiments, electronics development, signal processing, and data analysis. Assists with clinical studies and development of an equitable pulse oximeter, collaborates with lab members, presents findings at meetings, and may support field research. The role is full-time, onsite, and fixed-term for one year, with possible extension based on funding.

Provides administrative, logistical, and operational support for a biomedical innovation program. Coordinates grant RFP and review cycles, supports Innovation Fellows and Entrepreneurs in Residence, tracks program metrics, manages workshops and pitch events, and facilitates communication with academic, clinical, industry, and investor stakeholders.

Manages pre- and post-award grants administration and financial services for Applied Mathematics faculty, staff, and students. Responsibilities include budget planning and analysis, grant accounting, financial reporting, payroll reconciliation, purchasing oversight, account management, effort certification, salary reallocations, costings, and sponsored-award financial planning.

Supports research development for engineering and physical sciences faculty by identifying federal funding opportunities, coaching proposal development, writing nontechnical grant components, developing broader-impact strategies, coordinating workshops, and strengthening relationships with agencies including NSF, NASA, DoD, and DoE. The role manages faculty relationships, collaborative proposals, institutional partnerships, and research funding initiatives across Brown University.

Leads strategic research initiatives and scholarly programming for Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Partners with the Faculty Director to develop the intellectual agenda, conduct needs assessments, draft research proposals, establish interdisciplinary working groups and fellowship programs, and ensure program coherence. Also supports fundraising, constituency development, partnerships, and institutional representation.

Provides operational, administrative, and program support for alumni affinity groups, shared-interest communities, and belonging initiatives. Maintains BrownConnect+, coordinates virtual and in-person events, prepares communications, administers budgets and reimbursements, tracks volunteer and registration data, conducts surveys, and supports annual reporting. Collaborates across Alumni Relations, Advancement, and University departments while providing customer service to alumni, students, families, and colleagues.

Partners with university researchers, faculty, staff, and administrators to improve data storage, organization, protection, and lifecycle management. Advises on storage placement, data hygiene, archiving, compression, deletion, and tiering. Curates central cloud and enterprise storage platforms, promotes file organization and lifecycle workflows, and translates storage challenges into efficient processes. Supports planned after-hours maintenance and major incidents while maintaining awareness of grant mandates, privacy, and compliance requirements.

Coordinates fundraising campaigns, donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, major-gift pipelines, proposals, events, reports, and advisory council activities for assigned academic units. Serves as a liaison between Advancement and academic leadership, supports donor engagement through briefings and correspondence, and provides advanced administrative, logistical, travel, technology, and scheduling support to the Assistant Vice President for Development.

Coordinates public safety programming, advocacy initiatives, student and community partnerships, meetings, events, and working groups. Supports communications through newsletters, social media, website updates, graphic materials, and public information efforts. Manages event registration, attendance metrics, inventories, digital analytics, community feedback, and annual reporting. Supervises student assistants, responds to community inquiries, and resolves routine participant, vendor, and venue concerns.

Leads corporate relationship development and management for Brown University's top prospects and partners. Plans cultivation, solicitation, stewardship activities, executive meetings, and site visits; analyzes industry and partnership data; develops reports and engagement strategies; manages pipeline workflows; and collaborates with university leaders, faculty, staff, and corporate executives to advance funding proposals and strategic partnerships.

Provides advanced administrative and technical support to major gift fundraisers, including scheduling, travel arrangements, gift and pledge recording, correspondence, briefings, proposal pipeline maintenance, research, event support, CRM tasks, and information management. Coordinates regional engagement activities, manages confidential information, supports presentations and meetings, and collaborates with advancement staff. Requires occasional evening and weekend work and is based in Providence or California in a hybrid arrangement.

Manage a portfolio of life-science technologies to advance commercialization: source technologies, advise faculty, oversee IP filing/prosecution, prioritize opportunities, and cultivate industry and investor partnerships to negotiate licenses and deals.