Jobs at The University of Chicago

Leads the Illinois Small Business Development Center at the Polsky Exchange by advising small businesses, managing advisors and personnel, overseeing budgets and operations, coordinating programs, cultivating community and partner relationships, ensuring grant compliance, tracking outcomes, maintaining CRM records, producing reports, and developing marketing and funding resources.

Directs all operations of the Illinois Small Business Development Center at the Polsky Exchange. Responsibilities include advising small businesses, managing advisors and center personnel, coordinating educational programs, tracking grant metrics, maintaining CRM records, managing budgets, ensuring state and federal compliance, developing reports, cultivating community partnerships, and promoting SBDC services. The role also oversees accreditation activities, board relationships, funding resources, marketing, and operational processes.

Manages billing, collections, reconciliations, cash application, and financial reporting for federally and privately sponsored university projects. Reviews sponsor payment terms and regulations, identifies billing issues, analyzes reports, corrects data errors, and coordinates with university departments, faculty, sponsors, Treasury, and Bursar’s Office. The role requires accounting knowledge, proficiency with financial and research administration systems, advanced Excel and Business Objects skills, strong communication, and independent judgment.

Supports advancement operations through project management, CRM data management, prospect and gift acknowledgment tracking, event logistics, digital communications, fundraising writing, volunteer and annual giving programs, and reporting. The role manages Salesforce-based Phoenix data, HubSpot communications, Cvent event systems, website content, and operational materials while coordinating with alumni relations, development, university partners, volunteers, and leadership.

Provides post-award financial and administrative management for faculty grants, contracts, gifts, and internal funding. Responsibilities include monitoring expenses, reconciling accounts, processing purchasing and reimbursements, managing salary allocations and effort reporting, preparing projections and invoices, ensuring compliance, coordinating with funding agencies and subcontractors, supporting audits, and advising principal investigators on budgets and grant activity.

Research Engineer developing conceptual designs and techno-economic analyses for stratospheric aerosol injection and open-system carbon dioxide removal. Responsibilities include evaluating aircraft and propulsion technologies, designing aerosol and alkalinity-material dispersal systems, conducting feasibility and cost studies, supporting laboratory experiments and publications, and managing aerospace, EPC, OEM, consultant, and supplier subcontracts. The role also coordinates technical staff, evaluates risks and trade-offs, and delivers engineering projects on schedule and budget.

Manages electronic resource subscriptions, renewals, cancellations, orders, invoices, access records, and discovery-system updates. Troubleshoots database, e-book, and e-journal access issues for patrons and staff; coordinates with vendors and OpenAthens; gathers usage statistics and supports reporting and special projects. May hire, train, and supervise student employees. The role requires accuracy, initiative, communication, adaptability, spreadsheet skills, and the ability to learn library and vendor systems.

Provides high-level administrative, analytical, and executive coordination support to senior leaders in AI, precision medicine, and data analytics. Manages complex calendars, meeting logistics, correspondence, briefing materials, stakeholder communications, special projects, reports, and potentially budget reconciliation. Requires discretion, sound judgment, strong organization, communication, writing, presentation, spreadsheet, database, and problem-solving skills in a demanding academic medical center environment.

Leads enterprise strategy and operations for an academic medical AI, precision medicine, and data analytics office. Oversees informatics consolidation, budgets, investment plans, data platform development, partnerships, grants, philanthropy, faculty recruitment, governance, programming, and staff management across university and clinical stakeholders. Translates scientific opportunities into institutional and industry impact while serving as the primary operational liaison for internal and external constituencies.

Leads long-running, grant-funded software development programs involving distributed, multi-institutional teams. Responsibilities include program planning, scope and budget management, milestone tracking, risk mitigation, stakeholder coordination, technical oversight, reporting, and communication with engineers, principal investigators, funding agencies, and organizational leadership. The role also facilitates Agile work, translates research requirements into actionable plans, and represents the University of Chicago at meetings and conferences.

Edits scholarly science and economics journal manuscripts for style, grammar, accuracy, and adherence to journal standards. Reviews complex tables, figures, mathematics, references, and proofs; writes author queries; manages manuscripts through correction, quality control, approval, and online publication. Communicates with authors, editors, and production staff, maintains schedules, and may provide lead-editor oversight, training, and journal-level quality checks.

Edits scholarly science and economics manuscripts for style, grammar, accuracy, and journal standards. Reviews complex text, figures, tables, references, and mathematical content using XML-based software; communicates with authors and editorial teams; manages manuscripts through corrections, proofreading, final approval, and online publication. Supports quality control, publication schedules, style documentation, and occasional lead-editor responsibilities.

Leads operational administration for an academic finance research center, including faculty workshops, conferences, travel and expense reimbursements, hiring support, data resources, website administration, reporting, procurement, vendors, budgets, and office operations. The role coordinates stakeholders, manages competing priorities, improves processes, and independently oversees projects and events.

Manages the Center’s operational, financial, administrative, procurement, contract, vendor, and facilities processes. Advises staff and leadership on policies, oversees budgets and transactions, improves workflows, coordinates onboarding and training, supports strategic initiatives, and serves as a liaison with University departments and external partners. The role also manages operational projects, facilities needs, donor and alumni support activities, and resolution of complex administrative issues.

Leads the University’s enterprise data architecture, including current and target-state platforms, data models, integration patterns, governance, quality, lineage, privacy, and AI readiness. Owns modernization roadmaps, proofs of concept, platform upgrades, and technical design for high-impact initiatives. Partners with infrastructure, security, privacy, and application teams; mentors engineers; and communicates architecture decisions to leaders. Also supports BI and analytics applications, standards, upgrades, and integrated reporting environments.

Leads the University of Chicago’s multi-channel annual giving and direct-response fundraising strategy. Oversees donor acquisition, retention, segmentation, campaign performance, budgets, communications, and the Chicago Fund rollout. Advises development leaders, builds institutional fundraising capacity, manages cross-functional partnerships, and recruits, mentors, and directs annual giving staff. Ensures compliance, strengthens donor stewardship, and promotes a culture of philanthropy across the University.

Supports fundraising and donor development for the Smart Museum by cultivating individual, foundation, corporate, and government prospects; managing annual giving, grants, stewardship, donor events, and gifts of art. Maintains donor databases, analyzes philanthropic data, prepares reports and proposals, coordinates development calendars and financial reporting, and partners across Museum and Advancement teams to grow philanthropic support.

Manages end-to-end annual giving campaign operations, including appeal production, timelines, segmentation, CRM data, reporting, quality control, vendor coordination, and multichannel solicitation. Partners with university units and analytics teams to support donor participation, retention, and revenue goals. Maintains data accuracy and confidentiality, evaluates campaign effectiveness through testing, improves processes, and contributes to donor prospecting and fundraising strategy.

Provides comprehensive career counseling, coaching, communications, programming, employer and alumni engagement, job-resource development, employment reporting, and career-management education for law students and alumni. The role independently delivers advising, workshops, lectures, publications, and interview coaching while supporting academic-career initiatives and representing Career Services to internal and external audiences.

Creates multimedia content supporting training, outreach, and communications, including video, audio, graphics, interactive learning materials, and online courses. Operates recording equipment, edits multimedia files, develops accessible visual content, supports live events and learning platforms, and contributes to website and communications projects. Guides graphic projects and other artists without supervisory responsibility, ensuring deliverables meet timelines, budgets, quality standards, and stakeholder needs.