Jobs at University of Central Florida

Lead the planning, implementation, assessment, and improvement of a transfer student success program. Manage recruitment, engagement, retention, completion, budgets, grant reporting, compliance, staff supervision, stakeholder partnerships, advisory groups, communications, events, and long-term sustainability efforts.

Conduct cancer research on treatment resistance and tumor-microenvironment interactions using 2D, 3D, and organoid models, cancer mouse models, and molecular and cell biology techniques. Develop and troubleshoot experiments, lead projects independently, analyze and present findings, write manuscripts and grant proposals, attend scientific meetings, and train lab members.

Conduct interdisciplinary research in computational mechanics, structural engineering, infrastructure resilience, AI, data science, and digital twin modeling. Lead research proposals, reports, publications, and sponsored projects; supervise graduate research assistants; collaborate across disciplines; and present findings at conferences. The role also supports scientific software development, numerical modeling, and optional teaching activities.

Provides front-line technical support for faculty, staff, and students across hardware, software, operating systems, endpoint technologies, and network connectivity. Installs, configures, diagnoses, and repairs equipment; manages incidents and requests in ServiceNow; creates documentation; supports endpoint management and vulnerability remediation; coordinates with vendors; and provides guidance to support staff. Requires occasional after-hours support, equipment transport, and driving to university locations.

Provides high-level administrative support to the SDMSS Director by managing complex calendars, confidential correspondence, meetings, records, faculty affairs processes, budget and HR coordination, and cross-department special projects. The role serves as a key administrative contact, coordinates Steering Committee logistics, tracks action items, and ensures sensitive, time-critical initiatives are completed accurately and professionally.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology responsible for teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, conducting an externally fundable research program, publishing peer-reviewed research, mentoring students, and potentially supervising evidence-based clinical services. Candidates must hold a qualifying health services psychology Ph.D., be eligible for Florida psychologist licensure, and demonstrate teaching, research, and clinical supervision potential.

Leads enterprise infrastructure and artificial intelligence integration across UCF. Develops AI adoption strategies, infrastructure and technology roadmaps, cloud and data center services, enterprise applications, collaboration platforms, and digital workplace capabilities. Partners with executives to scale AI initiatives, establish governance and responsible AI practices, manage vendors and technology portfolios, and present investment priorities to leadership and governing boards.

Provides frontline technical support to faculty, staff, and students across phone, email, remote, desk-side, and walk-up channels. Installs, configures, maintains, and repairs computers, peripherals, operating systems, applications, and endpoint technologies. Troubleshoots hardware, software, and network issues using enterprise tools, manages tickets in ServiceNow, documents solutions, and supports IT service management processes. The role also provides client education, coordinates vendor escalations, guides student workers, and may provide temporary supervisory support.

Designs, develops, and supports enterprise data pipelines, dimensional and semantic models, BI solutions, and analytics platforms using Azure and Microsoft Fabric. Responsibilities include SQL-based ETL/ELT development, performance tuning, troubleshooting, data quality validation, metadata and lineage management, governance support, stakeholder requirements gathering, testing, documentation, and project milestone support.

Manages university-wide turf and horticulture operations, including soil health, fertilization, weed and pest control, mowing, aeration, topdressing, chemical applications, and equipment maintenance. Supervises and trains turf maintenance staff, coordinates work with landscape teams, maintains treatment and inventory records, supports event preparation, and ensures safety, regulatory, and university-procedure compliance across high-profile campus areas.

Leads alumni engagement for the College of Business by planning events, promoting annual giving, recruiting volunteers, developing mentorship programs, creating alumni communications, conducting outreach, supporting the alumni board, expanding online alumni-platform participation, and tracking engagement through donor and alumni databases.

Tenure-earning Assistant Professor in Accounting responsible for conducting high-quality behavioral accounting research and delivering excellent teaching. The role requires a Ph.D. in Accounting or a closely related field from an AACSB-accredited institution by hire. Preferred candidates have aligned research interests, publications in leading accounting or management journals, and strong teaching performance. Candidates must submit application materials including a CV, research papers, teaching evidence, and references.

Coordinates organic chemistry teaching laboratory operations, including equipment and chemical preparation, inventory management, lab maintenance, GTA training, hazardous waste handling, safety inspections, instrumentation support, and student assistant direction. The role collaborates with instructors and laboratory staff to ensure safe, well-equipped instructional labs and supports documentation, troubleshooting, decontamination, and equipment relocation projects.

Assistant Professor of Social Work responsible for conducting collaborative research, pursuing publicly engaged scholarship, teaching undergraduate and graduate social work courses, and contributing service to the school, university, and community. Candidates must hold an MSW and Ph.D. or DSW in social work or a related discipline. Preferred qualifications include teaching experience, a relevant research agenda, publications, funding potential, and two years of post-MSW practice experience.

Build and manage NCTI’s national mentor, investor, laboratory, industry, corporate, and entrepreneurial-support networks. Establish partnerships, referral pathways, and collaboration agreements that help technology startups commercialize and grow. Maintain partner records in the CRM, coordinate Partner Council activities, support investor showcases and cohort events, track introductions, and monitor partner performance. The role requires extensive relationship building across investors, government agencies, research organizations, national laboratories, and innovation ecosystems, along with regular domestic travel.

Design and lead NCTI’s commercialization education program for deep-technology startups. Develop curriculum, facilitate virtual cohort sessions and peer roundtables, recruit practitioner instructors, manage a national video and webinar series, administer learning assessments, oversee virtual delivery platforms and content libraries, and document the program’s transferable education model. Coordinate with partners, vendors, project managers, and evaluators while adapting programming based on company feedback and assessment findings.

Founding Executive Director will establish and lead NCTI’s operations, staff, governance, partnerships, commercialization-support processes, budget, federal award compliance, reporting, and risk management. The role oversees milestone-based participant funding, board and investor engagement, NSF relations, national competitions, cohort activities, and annual showcases. The leader will build a transferable operating model and ensure timely delivery of institute objectives in collaboration with university administrators, research partners, investors, industry, and government stakeholders.

Manages the university’s insurance programs, claims administration, automotive self-insurance, risk reviews, volunteer registration, and contract risk assessments. Partners with brokers, carriers, legal counsel, state partners, and university stakeholders to evaluate exposures, procure coverage, resolve claims, develop policies, and provide risk-management training. Supervises related processes and recommends practical strategies supporting regulatory compliance and institutional objectives.

Manage operations for a federally funded national commercialization institute, including competition administration, data collection, NSF reporting, compliance documentation, governance meetings, integrated schedules, travel and event logistics, and stakeholder coordination. The role maintains auditable records, tracks milestones and deliverables, supports external evaluation, and identifies project risks while working with university leaders, federal partners, review committees, investors, and participating companies.

Conduct research for the National Commercialization and Translation Institute, including maintaining a national registry, leading baseline and longitudinal data collection, performing case-based, qualitative comparative, and LLM-assisted analyses, and developing peer-reviewed manuscripts, public-use datasets, and an intervention playbook. Collaborate with principal investigators, co-principal investigators, and an external evaluator on policy-relevant research.