Jobs at Brown University

Serves as the central HR liaison for the School of Engineering, advising managers and administrators on recruitment, hiring, onboarding, employee relations, policies, compensation, equity reviews, and employment law. Administers Workday processes, student employment, payroll issue resolution, new-hire orientation, and annual performance reviews. Provides HR training, guidance, and confidential support while coordinating with University Human Resources and triaging complex employee matters.

Leads the artistic administration and production of Rites and Reason Theatre’s annual season, including new works, devised theatre, staged readings, symposia, guest artists, and signature events. Develops artist relationships, guides productions from concept through opening, manages concurrent projects and budgets, coordinates scheduling, cultivates audiences and institutional partnerships, and collaborates with faculty, staff, students, and artists to advance the theatre’s scholarly and community mission.

Manages employer recruiting and alumni engagement programs, including on-campus and virtual events, mentoring initiatives, outreach, job postings, billing, interviews, communications, data collection, surveys, budgets, and BrownConnect+ and Handshake systems. Builds employer and alumni networks, supports students and partners, contributes to career center initiatives, and collaborates across university departments. Occasional evening or weekend work may be required for events.

Manages a $1M+ Advancement Events budget through forecasting, budget monitoring, reconciliation, transaction coding, and financial reporting. Coordinates event contracts, purchasing, vendors, and university partners. Improves operational workflows by developing documentation, tools, templates, and training. Provides financial guidance, supports planning and decision-making, and ensures compliance with university policies. The role is hybrid and may require occasional evening and weekend work.

Designs, fabricates, purchases, and maintains laboratory equipment for experimental fluid mechanics research. Provides fabrication guidance and support for 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC equipment, and hand tools; maintains lab organization; supports posters, publications, reports, and grant proposals; and coordinates with design, IT, facilities, and environmental health and safety teams.

Leads the planning, design, implementation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of enterprise wired, wireless, data center, internet, and cloud networks. Oversees outages, on-call restoration, network changes, automation, monitoring, security, load balancing, VPNs, and disaster recovery. Develops technology roadmaps, leads cross-functional projects, researches new technologies, communicates with stakeholders, and mentors junior engineers.

Produces and edits educational video and audio content for graduate courses, including post-production, motion graphics, animation, and visual design. Develops style guides and templates for online and hybrid programs, ensures accessible and inclusive media, troubleshoots technical issues, and collaborates with design, media, and technology teams to deliver multiple projects on schedule.

Leads a university Finance Business Partner team supporting departmental budgeting, forecasting, multi-year financial planning, financial reporting, variance analysis, and strategic financial decision-making. Oversees annual and central financial planning processes, financial systems enhancements, executive presentations, special projects, and recommendations for senior university leaders. Manages 10–13 finance professionals while driving collaboration, team development, and continuous process improvement.

Leads strategic communications for the Dean of the Faculty, developing messages, announcements, presentations, and content for internal and external audiences. Manages communications staff, supports professional development, coordinates university-wide messaging, and advises academic units on communications standards and strategy. Plans selected faculty development events and leadership programs while collaborating with university communications, advancement, provost, and human resources offices. Requires strong writing, editing, research, digital communications, and higher education governance expertise.

Coordinates operations for Brown University's Planned Giving and Philanthropic Strategies department. Designs workflows, policies, and SOPs for complex asset gifts; manages cross-functional projects, compliance, executive support, invoices, scheduling, and institutional systems. Collaborates with university departments, fundraising officers, executives, and other stakeholders to implement operational improvements, track deadlines, support proposals, and maintain accurate confidential records.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.