Jobs at Northeastern University

Supports Northeastern athletics communications by managing media relations, promoting designated teams, overseeing game-day communications and statistical reporting, updating the athletics website, creating digital and social media content, and coordinating with ticketing, marketing, external affairs, video, and broadcast teams.

Manages financial administration for outgoing subawards, including reviewing payment terms, monitoring subrecipient compliance, processing and tracking invoices, obtaining approvals, maintaining databases, and preparing FFATA reports. Serves as a primary contact for faculty, administrators, and subrecipients while coordinating with Procurement, Accounts Payable, Finance, and Research Compliance. Supports process improvement, reporting, risk reduction, and automation initiatives related to sponsored research finance.

Manages daily operations, research administration, grant proposals, subawards, financial reporting, budgeting, purchasing, space and visitor logistics, websites, seminars, and research programs for two interdisciplinary university centers. Supports NSF, NIH, DOE, NASA, and foundation-funded activities; coordinates with research administration and finance offices; supervises staff and improves administrative workflows.

Designs and manages data integrations, mappings, transformation rules, business rules, and documentation across advancement systems. Partners with business and technical stakeholders to define requirements, troubleshoot integration failures, support migrations and system enhancements, and improve data quality and governance. Develops user stories, use cases, and functional specifications while serving as the authoritative resource for integration documentation and data mappings.

Provides academic, career, college admission, and financial aid advising to Upward Bound students. Recruits eligible participants, develops academic plans, monitors performance, coordinates workshops and support services, and liaises with families, schools, and colleges. Plans and chaperones field trips, college tours, and summer residential programming while maintaining regulatory compliance, databases, evaluations, and student records. Requires evening, weekend, travel, and residential supervision availability.

Tenure-track and tenured faculty will teach undergraduate and graduate courses, mentor students and postdoctoral researchers, conduct internationally recognized and independently funded AI or computer science research, and provide university and professional service. Research may focus on physical AI, human-centered AI, AI and software engineering, or AI safety, security, and alignment. Candidates will also contribute to inclusive teaching, experiential learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration across Northeastern’s colleges and research institutes.

Develop and apply physical AI, robotics, and autonomous systems for healthcare, communication sciences, and rehabilitation. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, leading an independent externally funded research program, developing technologies such as assistive systems and wearable sensors, mentoring students, and contributing to departmental, college, and university service. Candidates will collaborate across health sciences, engineering, design, and computing while supporting global student populations.

Conduct quantitative and qualitative research supporting defense industrial base initiatives. Responsibilities include research design, data collection, analysis, synthesis, reporting, community and workforce analysis, advanced manufacturing research, capital activation support, and preparing concise briefings. The role requires strong communication, organization, proofreading, prioritization, and independent work skills. Some travel may be required.

Provides preventative, urgent, and follow-up nursing care to university students. Responsibilities include triage, assessments, immunizations, medications, clinical testing, procedures, care coordination, health education, documentation, infection control, and collaboration with interdisciplinary staff in an outpatient setting.

Tenure-track faculty will teach undergraduate and graduate electrical and computer engineering courses, lead an independent externally funded research program in embodied, wearable, assistive, or physical AI, and contribute to departmental, college, and university service. Candidates should advance interdisciplinary and translational research, mentor diverse global students, and participate in collaborative academic initiatives. Associate and full professors require established records of research, teaching, leadership, and recognized disciplinary impact.

Leads Northeastern’s life sciences and physical sciences spinout portfolio from venture formation through launch and early growth. Coaches founders on product-market fit, business models, commercialization, and go-to-market strategy; builds scalable training, grant support, pitch coaching, and investor-engagement programs; develops VC and ecosystem relationships; and coordinates commercialization, marketing, contracts, faculty, and university stakeholders.

Teach foundational and advanced courses in AI governance, comparative politics, international relations, AI policy, or law. Conduct and publish research on responsible AI design, use, governance, and societal impacts across regional and global contexts. Contribute to cross-disciplinary curriculum and research initiatives, mentor students, and demonstrate excellence in teaching, scholarship, and public-facing or collaborative research.

Manages a portfolio of leadership-level donors and prospects, identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding individuals capable of giving $10,000–$100,000 and advancing toward major gifts. Builds relationships across the university, conducts donor meetings, develops cultivation strategies, closes gifts, maintains Salesforce records, tracks activity and metrics, and collaborates with advancement, college, and unit staff to support fundraising goals.

Supports and enhances Workday Time Tracking and Payroll through requirements analysis, configuration, testing, troubleshooting, process improvement, documentation, training, and user support. Serves as a liaison among Payroll, HR, Finance, IT, vendors, and university stakeholders. Leads functional solutions and provides project lifecycle oversight, including planning, communication, user acceptance testing, change management, and operational support.

Plans and manages 50+ annual virtual and in-person events, including career fairs, expos, orientations, town halls, and training sessions. Coordinates venues, catering, vendors, technology, invitations, registration, budgets, volunteers, and on-site logistics. Provides virtual event support, manages stakeholder communications, troubleshoots issues, tracks attendance and feedback, and recommends improvements to event processes and vendor relationships.

Leads complex, enterprise-level IT infrastructure projects from planning through delivery, managing scope, schedules, budgets, risks, resources, vendors, and cross-functional teams. Serves as liaison among technical teams, business units, and executives while reporting project performance and financials. Oversees AV upgrades, structured cabling, network installations, wireless deployments, network closet buildouts, and technology relocations across campus. Ensures quality, stakeholder alignment, procurement coordination, vendor performance, and successful post-project evaluation.

Develops financial models for budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning; analyzes financial, enrollment, headcount, and operational data; builds Tableau dashboards for leadership; creates SQL and Python data pipelines; conducts scenario analysis; resolves data inconsistencies; and collaborates with university departments to improve financial reporting and processes.

Leads Board of Trustees and committee operations, including governance documentation, meeting logistics, board communications, secure portal administration, regulatory filings, and tracking strategic initiatives. Maintains board records, calendars, dashboards, processes, and KPIs; coordinates stakeholders and supports the Board Secretary. Also manages the Trustees Emeriti program, supervises administrative staff, oversees a department budget, and supports compliance initiatives. Requires strong project management, communication, technology, relationship-building, confidentiality, and organizational skills.

Manages departmental office and studio operations, facilities requests, space and supply coordination, onboarding, front-office support, administrative assistance, student staff supervision, and academic events. Coordinates with university service partners to maintain safe, functional spaces; supports department leadership with calendars, meetings, communications, and reporting; organizes workshops, speaker series, ceremonies, orientations, guest arrangements, and shared administrative procedures.

Provides executive leadership for advancement analytics, business intelligence, reporting, data governance, integrations, data architecture, AI enablement, innovation, and organizational learning. Establishes data strategy and governance, oversees analytics and decision-support capabilities, leads directors and analysts, and partners with university stakeholders to improve fundraising effectiveness and organizational performance.