Jobs at Oregon State University

The Thin Films Engineer independently executes projects and collaborates with faculty, facility tenants, and external companies. Responsibilities include sustaining and developing sputter deposition, atomic layer deposition, photolithography, ellipsometry, SEM, and other thin-film processing and analytical equipment. The role also provides user training and requires project coordination, CAD design, and professional experience in thin-film processes and device fabrication.

Leads impact storytelling projects from client intake through publication and audience engagement. Develops creative systems, templates, and best practices; provides editorial feedback; assesses publication and engagement opportunities; and creates strategies to maximize public impact. The role also collaborates with diverse research, nonprofit, Tribal, and government partners, mentors emerging storytellers, and periodically participates in remote outdoor projects requiring vehicle operation and equipment transport.

Coordinates marketing and communications project intake, workflows, timelines, stakeholder communication, campaigns, reports, and internal communications. Maintains and edits accessible, brand-aligned digital content across websites, intranets, and content management systems. Provides customer service, branding guidance, web publishing support, and resource referrals while improving processes and coordinating priorities across the division.

Supports mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering research through laboratory experimentation, setup and maintenance, literature and publication research, data collection, and analysis. Duties vary by funding and research topic and are assigned by the principal investigator or supervisor. The position is part-time, up to 20 hours weekly, and develops critical thinking, teamwork, technology, and equity and inclusion competencies.

Creates platform-specific social media content, including photos, videos, reels, graphics, and grid posts. Manages audience engagement, monitors trends, supports weekly social media planning and targeted campaigns, collaborates with marketing and creative teams, and attends in-person events for content creation. This hybrid student position requires Corvallis-based availability and enrollment in an eligible educational program.

Provides gymnastics instruction to youth in a safe, supportive environment. Responsibilities include planning age-appropriate lessons, teaching gymnastics and tumbling skills, monitoring and responding to safety concerns, supervising participants, managing equipment, evaluating progress, promoting programs, administering first aid when needed, and collaborating with families, staff, and supervisors. The role is part-time, up to 24 hours weekly, with after-school, Saturday, and occasional community-event programming.

Provides administrative and executive support to the Chief Assistant and Senior Advisor to the Provost. Responsibilities include complex calendaring, travel arrangements, invoice processing, committee and event logistics, correspondence and presentation preparation, email management, visitor coordination, and reporting. The role requires discretion with confidential information, strong communication, independent judgment, organization, customer service, and coordination across a complex university environment. On-site work, occasional evening and weekend event support, driving, and background checks are required.

Leads athletics financial planning and annual operating budgets, prepares executive reports and recommendations, develops fiscal policies, coordinates external audits, and serves as the primary liaison with university finance offices, auditors, and external agencies. The role also partners on long-term budget planning, supervises financial operations, ensures NCAA and institutional compliance, and drives process improvements and operational efficiency.

Leads recreation planning and public engagement across OSU Research Forests. Manages visitor, community, and recreational organization relationships; supervises recreation and education staff; oversees trails, facilities, programs, outreach, communications, and public safety information. Coordinates with forest operations and research teams to reduce conflicts and expand educational opportunities. Responsibilities also include strategic planning, program implementation, public communication, and collaboration with advisory committees.

Conduct experiments and analyze data for federally funded aqueous and non-aqueous battery research projects in the Chemistry Department. Draft research reports and perform routine to complex laboratory technical tasks. This is a part-time undergraduate position requiring regular laboratory research and enrollment in an eligible academic program.

Supports NSE 234 course instruction through classroom and laboratory assistance, student tutoring during office hours, grading assignments and exams under instructor guidance, Canvas course-material management, and weekly instructor meetings. The position requires 5–20 hours per week and may be conducted in classrooms, labs, or offices. Student employees develop communication, critical-thinking, teamwork, and leadership skills.

Part-time student technical assistants support civil and construction engineering research labs through experimentation, laboratory setup and maintenance, data collection and analysis, cleaning, and teamwork. Duties may involve common wood and metal hand tools and extended periods of standing or sitting. Students must complete safety training, use provided protective equipment, lift up to 25 kg, and develop communication, critical-thinking, and teamwork skills.

Manages Oregon State University's academic and recreational PADI SCUBA program, dive center, rental inventory, facilities, budget, and personnel. Instructs SCUBA courses, develops learning outcomes, designs and assesses inclusive instruction, supervises instructors and student workers, mentors Divemaster candidates, and oversees equipment maintenance. The role requires leading physical activity courses, lifting SCUBA equipment, driving university vehicles, working nights and weekends, and traveling with students to open-water dive sites.

Supports academic research through literature and publication research, laboratory experimentation, lab setup and maintenance, data collection and analysis, and other supervisor-assigned tasks related to the funding area and research topic.

Provides strategic and operational support to the Dean and College Leadership Team. Oversees Dean’s Office workflows, communications, scheduling, staffing coordination, administrative systems, process improvements, and executive decision support. Serves as a liaison across college, university, and external stakeholders; develops recommendations and policy guidance; supervises staff; and strengthens organizational effectiveness, accountability, continuity, and collaboration.

Tenure-track Assistant Professors will develop externally funded integrative biology research programs focused on organismal processes driving performance and their ecological or evolutionary implications. Candidates will teach biology and zoology courses, mentor undergraduate and graduate students, collaborate across disciplines, and provide university and professional service. Research may use theoretical, experimental, comparative, or observational approaches in laboratory or field settings.

Coordinates marine fisheries laboratory management, fieldwork, and operations. Plans and executes remote marine field studies, deploys and maintains fishing gear, captures and handles marine animals, and applies acoustic and satellite tagging to large fishes. Supports database management, scheduling, outreach, and science communication, including social media. The role requires periods at sea, outdoor work, irregular hours, driving, and travel throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Provides part-time undergraduate learning support in EECS courses through mentoring, discussion board assistance, rubric-based grading, lab and recitation support, and participation in TA meetings. Duties vary by course and may include special topics assistance. The role develops communication, critical thinking, teamwork, technology, leadership, professionalism, equity and inclusion, and career-development skills.

Supports engineering courses by completing training, holding office hours, grading, assisting with lab sessions, leading study sessions, tutoring, entering scores in Canvas, copying course materials, attending meetings, and mentoring fellow students. The role requires at least eight hours weekly and may take place in classrooms, laboratories, or offices.

Part-time student Curator Assistant supporting Integrative Biology research through specimen curation, preparation, care, imaging, cataloguing, data entry, library research, laboratory organization, sample preparation, DNA extraction, PCR, and DNA sequence processing. Applicants must be enrolled students pursuing biological sciences or a related field and demonstrate a strong work ethic. Federal work-study students are preferred.