Jobs at Howard University

Provides high-level administrative and operational support to the Dean of Howard University's School of Divinity. Responsibilities include complex calendar and travel management, confidential correspondence, office workflow, stakeholder relations, events, purchasing-card reconciliation, and administrative coordination. The role also supervises Federal Work Study students, supports the Divinity Ambassadors Program, and oversees the Dean's newsletter while maintaining professionalism, discretion, and responsiveness.

Directs Howard University's annual giving program, including donor acquisition, cultivation, retention, and gift upgrades through direct mail, online, and telephone solicitations. Manages Tele-Center staff and operations, supports crowdfunding users, analyzes campaign data and segmentation, prepares reports and recommendations, develops revenue and expense targets, and manages budgets. Builds relationships with alumni, donors, administrators, and campaign stakeholders while overseeing fundraising systems and donor activity records.

Provides integrated academic and career advising to undergraduate students throughout their university journey. Manages a student caseload, supports academic planning, major exploration, retention, progression, graduation, and career readiness. Uses proactive outreach, early-alert interventions, student data, and advising metrics to support outcomes. Collaborates with faculty, career services, enrollment management, and student success teams while maintaining accurate records and FERPA compliance.

Coordinates pharmacy experiential learning operations, including IPPE and APPE student placements, preceptor engagement, affiliation agreements, payments, office procedures, events, manuals, and student and preceptor requirements. Maintains budgets and records, liaises with procurement and accounts payable, supports academic advising and mentoring, trains employees, manages software workflows, and coordinates domestic and international site relationships.

Provides first-point-of-contact support for patients, providers, staff, and affiliates. Schedules medical appointments, handles high-volume inbound calls, records demographic and insurance information in Allscripts, explains appointment requirements, answers questions, researches issues, and provides solutions. Maintains call quality, accuracy, customer satisfaction, and performance metrics while delivering professional, patient-focused service.

Provides advanced administrative and operational support to the Chair of Ophthalmology, coordinating academic, clinical, and research activities; manages correspondence, scheduling, budgets, HR tasks, CME symposia, student clerkships, vendor relationships, and confidential communications to ensure departmental operations run smoothly.

Performs laboratory maintenance, cell culture and mouse colony care, and testing of human and mouse specimens. Responsibilities include ordering supplies, isolating RNA and proteins, conducting RT-PCR, Western blotting, and immunostaining, organizing research results, attending laboratory meetings, and supporting IBC, IACUC, and IRB protocol preparation. The role contributes to NIH-funded research on kidney disease in sickle cell disease.

Leads academic learning support and student success initiatives, including orientation, tutoring, academic coaching, placement testing, recovery support, retention programming, and success workshops. Supervises professional and student staff, collaborates with campus partners, teaches study skills courses, establishes goals and assessment measures, analyzes student data, and develops reports to improve persistence, retention, and degree completion.

The Prospect Research Specialist identifies, researches, analyzes, and qualifies fundraising prospects for Howard University's Development and Alumni Relations team. Responsibilities include preparing prospect profiles and briefings, maintaining donor data in Raiser's Edge, conducting wealth screening and data mining, analyzing relationships and portfolios, supporting gift officers, and providing actionable research insights. The role also manages prospect segmentation, database updates, reporting, and collaboration with advancement services and campus partners while maintaining confidentiality and professional research standards.

Provides intermediate administrative and clerical support for the College of Pharmacy Dean’s office and international programs. Responsibilities include receptionist coverage, responding to inquiries, vendor coordination, requisitions, room scheduling, event support, mail handling, training certificates, student international rotation documentation, contract submissions, personnel and expense records, grant settlement reports, and file maintenance.

Provides programmatic and administrative support for a university Clinical Law Center. Responsibilities include managing files and databases, coordinating events and academic programming, processing applications and reimbursements, supporting legal operations, maintaining confidential records, managing front-office functions, coordinating facilities requests, and assisting with communications, training, and special projects.

Supports annual budget development, presentation, and monitoring for Howard University School of Law. Performs comparative cost analysis, budget-versus-actual reporting, program financial evaluation, forecasting, and cost-saving recommendations. Maintains accurate budget data in Workday or Adaptive, ensures compliance with university policies, and communicates financial insights to administrators, faculty, staff, and senior leadership. May supervise student employees.

Provides confidential administrative, communications, and logistical support for a law school records office. Responsibilities include processing grades and transfer credits, calculating GPAs and class rankings, maintaining student and archival records, verifying enrollment, supporting bar certifications, managing registration issues, distributing exam IDs, assisting with exam administration, and responding to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and external partners.

Coordinates student disability accommodations at Howard University School of Law, including eligibility reviews, accommodation determinations, student advising, approval tracking, communications, testing-center operations, workflow reporting, and data integrity analysis. The role collaborates with students, faculty, administrators, and staff, maintains confidentiality, supports compliance, and assists with Student Affairs programs and assignments.

Conduct independent social, behavioral, or economic science research; design studies; manage IRB approval, data collection, and analysis; develop models and decision-support tools; advise graduate students; publish peer-reviewed papers; present findings at conferences; and collaborate with university and external researchers.

Provides administrative and operational support for Howard University's Prospect Development team. Responsibilities include maintaining prospect and donor data in Raiser's Edge and EverTrue, generating standard reports, supporting prospect research software, managing data cleanup and imports/exports, preparing briefing materials, and coordinating routine administrative tasks. The role requires strong attention to detail, database proficiency, organization, communication skills, and the ability to handle confidential information.

Provides administrative and operational support for the Alumni Association, coordinating meetings, events, volunteer engagement, communications, records, data management, reporting, invoices, and budgets. Maintains alumni and club information in Raiser's Edge, supports leadership processes and training, responds to alumni inquiries, and collaborates with university stakeholders. The role requires strong organization, communication, discretion, customer service, and occasional weekend work and travel for alumni programs and events.

Directs administrative, strategic, and operational activities for a grant-funded preaching initiative at Howard University School of Divinity. Responsibilities include community outreach, congregation research, recruitment campaigns, alumni engagement, database maintenance, grant reporting, donor opportunity identification, symposium and workshop coordination, media support, and student guidance. The role collaborates with university stakeholders, clergy, alumni, nonprofits, vendors, and the public while supporting program infrastructure and assessment outcomes.

Conducts advanced biological and laboratory research for a principal investigator, including animal histology, microarray analysis, bioinformatics, genotyping, microscopy, molecular assays, data interpretation, and specimen preparation. Maintains research records, equipment, biological resources, supplies, and animal colonies. Assists with manuscripts, grants, budgets, staff training, and laboratory operations while supervising research personnel and ensuring hazardous-substance compliance.

Manages legal operations for Howard University School of Law’s Clinical Law Center and 10 live-client clinics. Responsibilities include compliance, conflict checks, law practice policies, docket and file management, faculty and student training, client communication, operational improvement, budgeting, grant collaboration, external partnerships, and support for a civil rights moot court program. The role requires a commitment to social justice, civil and human rights, and high-quality legal services.