Jobs at University of Southern California

Develops, maintains, and supports software applications, Workday solutions, Workday Extend applications, and integrations. Collaborates with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions, writes and tests code, troubleshoots system issues, supports security and compliance, and contributes to process improvements. Provides customer-focused support, documentation, training resources, and effective communication across technical and non-technical teams in a remote, high-volume environment.

The Program Manager will support the Center for Sustainable Solutions’ co-directors by developing strategy, coordinating events and sustainability workshops, supervising student workers, assisting with budgets and resources, supporting fundraising and grant proposals, evaluating programs, and coordinating marketing and communications. The role is hybrid, based at USC’s University Park Campus, and is a renewable three-year fixed-term position.

Coordinates marketing campaigns, email newsletters, copywriting, public relations, live events, advertising, promotional materials, vendor relationships, budgets, marketing calendars, and market research. The role supports audience engagement, fundraising, brand awareness, and efficient daily marketing operations for a public media organization.

Provides administrative support and program coordination for an academic affairs office. Coordinates faculty support, onboarding, projects, meetings, committees, budgets, purchasing, reports, compliance, documentation, and cross-functional initiatives. Maintains records and administrative systems, develops procedures and training materials, monitors timelines, supports process improvements, and provides oversight to staff and student workers. The role requires collaboration with university departments and support for academic programs and leadership.

Leads undergraduate career services strategy, operations, staffing, employer relationships, student career outcomes, and a $350,000+ budget. Supervises at least eight professional employees and student staff, oversees hiring and development, evaluates vendors and AI adoption, expands internship and employment opportunities, and collaborates with university stakeholders, faculty, donors, parents, and employers.

Provides full-service HR support to academic departments, serving as an HR liaison and advisor to employees and managers. Responsibilities include faculty contract administration, recruiting support, performance management, employee relations, onboarding, payroll and compensation coordination, HRIS updates in Workday, leave guidance, reporting, and organizational development initiatives focused on engagement, retention, and team performance.

Prepares and supports instructional laboratory experiments by setting up equipment and workstations, preparing chemicals and reagents, testing experiments, troubleshooting instrumentation, and guiding students and instructional staff. Maintains laboratory safety, cleanliness, inventories, records, waste procedures, and equipment calibration and maintenance. The role is fully onsite and may provide task guidance to student workers while escalating non-routine technical or safety issues.

Develops, tests, debugs, and documents code for survey harmonization projects. Creates test data, analysis variables, datasets, tables, and research publications. Documents cross-survey comparability and harmonized codebooks, collaborates with researchers and programmers, and presents technical work at conferences and demonstrations.

Leads executive social media and communications content strategy across Instagram, LinkedIn, X, and other channels. Creates and optimizes written, visual, and multimedia content; manages calendars, approvals, campaigns, and stakeholder relationships. Monitors social channels, analyzes engagement metrics, identifies opportunities, and flags issues. Coordinates leadership content with university events and schedules while delivering timely, polished communications under pressure.

Executes daily marketing operations for online graduate programs, including market research, reporting, email campaigns, social media management, content calendars, advertising, website updates, promotional materials, and student communications. The role analyzes market trends, supports marketing strategy, maintains brand guidelines, monitors competitors, and assists with special projects. It requires strong communication, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, plus experience with marketing and business software.

Leads a complex portfolio of research, healthcare implementation, education, quality improvement, and strategic initiatives. Manages project plans, grants, budgets, reporting, stakeholder coordination, partnerships, communications, and program operations from planning through completion. Facilitates multidisciplinary teams, tracks milestones and deliverables, supports grant submissions and financial administration, develops workflows and quality-improvement systems, and coordinates educational and outreach programs. The role requires proactive ownership, strong organization, financial management, communication, and project leadership skills.

Provides administrative and program leadership for a university research institute and academic department. Coordinates research initiatives, grants, proposals, budgets, deadlines, reporting, faculty recruitment, events, courses, student programs, travel, reimbursements, publications, and departmental operations. Supports leadership, faculty, scholars, graduate students, and external stakeholders while maintaining websites, organizing academic activities, ensuring policy compliance, and facilitating research and program deliverables.

Conduct infant participant recruitment, screening, scheduling, and behavioral and awake-infant fMRI visits. Maintain REDCap records, study documentation, scanner reservations, IRB compliance, supplies, and equipment. Train research assistants, coordinate lab operations, communicate with families and research staff, and follow established protocols. Optional development may include data quality control, coding, automation, and research support.

Lead and manage alumni relations, annual giving, and major gift fundraising for the School of Cinematic Arts. Develop and implement fundraising strategies, cultivate and solicit major donors (including $1M+ gifts), oversee a team and budgets, produce donor materials, and coordinate with faculty, administrators, and advancement leadership to meet campaign and institutional goals.

Provides high-level executive support to the university president, managing strategic scheduling, briefings, correspondence, travel, expense reimbursements, stakeholder coordination, and executive workflows. The role supports decision-making, governance, institutional priorities, and complex cross-functional initiatives while maintaining confidentiality and exercising sound judgment. It also coordinates a special advisor’s travel and leverages AI tools to improve productivity and decision-making.

Conducts technical research on innate immunology, pathogen-host interactions, liver diseases, inflammation, and immunity under a principal investigator’s guidance. Responsibilities include developing research questions, designing and performing in vitro and mouse experiments, analyzing and interpreting data, leading publications and conference presentations, maintaining laboratory protocols and materials, supporting quality control, and following safety and animal-use procedures.

Coordinates executive education programs, including planning, logistics, schedules, participant communications, materials, faculty engagement, and on-site delivery. Manages workflows, documentation, project tracking, community partnerships, meetings, and outreach across center initiatives. Supports newsletters, website content, social media, promotional materials, publications, fundraising communications, and consistent messaging. Evaluates program effectiveness and recommends operational improvements while managing multiple priorities independently.

Leads international undergraduate recruitment and admission strategy, including territory planning, global partnerships, credential evaluation, complex application review, policy guidance, enrollment data analysis, outreach, staff supervision, budgets, and operational processes. Represents USC with students, families, counselors, schools, professional organizations, and university partners while developing training and resources for consistent international application review.

Provides onsite IT, AV, event, studio, network, endpoint, and tenant support at USC's Capital Campus. Responsibilities include event AV setup and troubleshooting, studio readiness and production support, network and system maintenance, backups, patching, configuration management, endpoint troubleshooting, documentation, vendor coordination, and escalation to Los Angeles-based IT teams.

Coordinates daily clinical research activities in Cardiology under the supervision of the principal investigator and research leadership. Responsibilities include preparing IRB and regulatory submissions, organizing study files, screening and consenting participants, coordinating tests and registrations, collecting data, completing case report forms, maintaining supplies and records, communicating with sponsors and participants, supporting compliance reporting and ClinicalTrials.gov registration, assisting with study closeout, and coordinating participant payments.