Jobs at Northeastern University

Leads Northeastern’s global volunteer and engagement ecosystem, including the Global Ambassador model, volunteer recruitment, onboarding, activation, and lifecycle management. Designs intergenerational engagement pathways, mentoring and leadership development programs, affinity network strategies, and Global Giving Day initiatives. Partners with university teams to develop communications, toolkits, engagement plans, tracking processes, and reporting while cultivating alumni, students, parents, faculty, staff, donors, and senior volunteers globally.

Manages daily operations and stakeholder engagement for Northeastern’s entrepreneurship hub. Coordinates entrepreneurship programs, events, venue reservations, vendors, facilities, technology, visitors, and university partners. Provides audio/visual and on-site event support, maintains operating procedures, supports invoicing and financial tracking, supervises student and event staff, and contributes to communications, reporting, and continuous improvement.

Teach two sections of the Legal Skills in Social Context course to first-year law students, covering legal research, writing, and lawyering skills. Supervise two social justice research projects conducted with community or public interest organizations. Teaching may occur on campus or remotely through the FlexJD program. The role also contributes to the School of Law’s experiential, interdisciplinary, and public-interest mission through teaching, research, and service.

Administer sponsored research programs throughout their lifecycle. Review proposals and awards for compliance, interpret sponsor and university regulations, support budget development, negotiate award terms, process amendments and extensions, coordinate progress reports, and provide non-financial post-award administration. Serve as the primary resource for faculty, administrators, funding agencies, legal counsel, and compliance offices while managing multiple deadlines and a high volume of work.

Leads strategy, governance, roadmap management, and continuous improvement for Advancement technology applications. Serves as product owner, translates business needs into technical solutions, oversees enterprise application projects, partners with ITS and vendors, manages application governance, and leads the Application Management team. The role prioritizes enhancements, coordinates delivery and adoption, improves user experience, and aligns technology investments with fundraising and operational objectives.

Coordinates undergraduate and graduate academic program administration, including admissions, recruitment, retention, student inquiries, committee support, records, data analysis, teaching schedules, events, assistantships, reimbursements, and policy guidance. Serves as a liaison among students, faculty, department leadership, and university offices. Maintains program data, tracks student progress, supports process improvements, and manages communications and administrative projects.

Develop and enforce editorial standards and social-first content strategies across platforms. Monitor global news, identify timely stories from university research and faculty expertise, and adapt journalism for creator-led video. Train content creators in fact-checking, source verification, and editorial ethics while coordinating with reporters and communications teams. Track performance metrics, use AI tools responsibly, support breaking-news communications, and maintain brand voice across contributor-produced content. This is a fully in-person Boston role requiring after-hours, weekend, holiday, and event work.

Leads administrative and operational functions for Northeastern University’s Seattle Physician Assistant Program. Develops systems, policies, workflows, and processes supporting program launch, accreditation, admissions, student administration, events, budgeting, and continuous improvement. Supervises administrative staff, coordinates complex initiatives and stakeholders, supports the Program Director, and manages program records, data, communications, purchasing, and operational planning.

Develop, test, document, and maintain software for SPHERE, a large-scale remotely accessible IoT research testbed. The role also involves preparing documentation and reports, coordinating with project partners, demonstrating testing activities, and learning relevant development technologies. Work is conducted onsite at Northeastern University’s Boston campus and supports cybersecurity and privacy experimentation.

Full-time, open-rank non-tenure teaching faculty role in Human Resources Management delivering graduate courses, curriculum development, student mentoring, faculty oversight, industry engagement, and scholarly activity. Position requires on-campus presence in Boston, evening/weekend availability, and occasional travel to global campuses.

Reports, writes, and publishes breaking news, daily stories, and enterprise features focused on data, AI, science, research, and university life. The role requires interpreting studies, public documents, filings, and data; developing sources; fact-checking; meeting tight deadlines; and collaborating with editorial, media relations, social media, and multimedia teams. The reporter also uses analytics and audience metrics to guide coverage and works fully onsite, including occasional after-hours, weekend, and holiday work.

Serves as the primary administrative contact for a university mathematics department. Provides front desk and community support, manages purchasing and budgets, maintains records and correspondence, coordinates rooms and facilities, manages communications, and plans department events. The role also supports travel and reimbursements, handles inquiries, liaises with university offices, and independently manages competing priorities with professionalism, discretion, and strong organizational skills.

Operate and improve the reliability, availability, performance, observability, and scalability of a distributed AI research platform. Build automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing systems, infrastructure-as-code, and operational tooling. Debug distributed services involving Ray, GPUs, resource allocation, and scheduling, while establishing best practices and collaborating across teams to support evolving research needs.

Supports the development and rollout of graduate, online, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional academic programs across campuses. Responsibilities include analyzing enrollment, market, employer, and student-demand data; coordinating faculty and academic leaders; developing program proposals and educational products; supporting online offerings; and ensuring governance, accreditation, and licensure compliance.

Conduct computational research in knowledge-grounded AI, knowledge graphs, systems modeling, natural language processing, machine learning, and biomedical data harmonization. Develop open-source scientific software and benchmark applications, publish and present research, contribute to grant proposals, supervise graduate students and junior researchers, and support lab purchasing and budget administration.

Leads the Marketing Operations team and serves as the Slate marketing automation expert. Manages email campaigns, event platforms, integrations, workflows, prospect data, segmentation, lead scoring, reporting, dashboards, data quality, documentation, and stakeholder support. Supervises staff, improves marketing processes, develops automation solutions, and translates business needs into technical requirements while supporting pipeline growth and data-informed decision-making.

Leads enrollment analytics, reporting, Tableau environment management, data quality, dashboard development, and forecasting models for recruitment, admissions, persistence, graduation, financial aid, and revenue. Oversees data analysts, manages reporting standards and access, resolves data issues, supports ad hoc analysis, presents findings to stakeholders, and promotes data literacy. Collaborates with business intelligence and university teams on system enhancements, compliance reporting, and data-driven decision-making.

Builds and sustains relationships with distinguished alumni and student honorees, creating engagement, leadership, and philanthropic opportunities. Coordinates recognition programs and events, including nominations and selections; collaborates with university partners on stewardship and recognition strategies. Tracks participation and engagement data, prepares reports, manages follow-up and records, and supports Advancement and Alumni Relations initiatives. The role is in person in Boston, requires evening and weekend work, and includes occasional local and regional travel.

Leads and scales industry partner business development programs, sales strategy, demand generation, and partnership operations. Builds high-performing sales teams, establishes targets and sales motions, manages strategic partner relationships, closes complex B2B deals, and owns revenue performance. Oversees 3–6 direct reports and a broader team of 9–12 while developing data-driven forecasts, positioning, and go-to-market strategies for data and AI programs.

Tenure-track faculty member researching AI-mediated telepresence and its applications in telemedicine, immersive environments, remote learning, simulation, robotics, rehabilitation, and related fields. Responsibilities include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, mentoring students, developing externally funded interdisciplinary research or creative practice, pursuing industry partnerships, and contributing to departmental, college, and university service.