Jobs at Washington State University

Provides fiscal support for CAHNRS by reviewing and analyzing budgets, reconciling accounts, identifying funding sources, monitoring expenditures and commitments, and communicating financial concerns. Coordinates and pre-approves personnel, payroll, and position actions, evaluates funding and salary allocations, prepares reports, and resolves complex personnel and financial issues. Requires accounting education or equivalent experience, financial systems proficiency, and effective communication skills.

Leads fundraising for the College of Education, Sport, and Human Sciences by cultivating donor relationships, conducting outreach, preparing proposals, securing major gifts, and managing fundraising projects. The role carries annual fundraising goals of at least $750,000, requires extensive regional travel, and may include staff leadership responsibilities. Evening and weekend work is required.

Provides comprehensive administrative support to the College of Nursing department chair, coordinates programs and events, manages correspondence and schedules, handles confidential information, and serves as a liaison among faculty, program directors, and operations leadership. The role also supports continuity of departmental operations, prepares reports and presentations, provides customer service, and exercises delegated authority during supervisor absences.

Oversees daily operations for the Murrow Equipment Room, including budgeting, inventory, asset management, facilities coordination, building access, equipment services, and student employee supervision. Manages inventory records, purchasing, maintenance, audits, fees, and equipment lifecycle planning. Coordinates facilities, safety, security, space planning, and access activities across multiple buildings. Provides equipment training, resolves technology issues, improves procedures, ensures policy compliance, and leads safety initiatives.

Leads the merged IT and Communications organization, overseeing information technology, enterprise systems, strategic communications, media relations, brand management, web operations, and digital engagement. Advises senior leadership on technology and communications strategy, reputation and crisis communications, digital presence, and data-informed decisions. Manages staff, budgets, resources, cross-functional operations, and partnerships with university organizations while ensuring reliable services for academic, research, outreach, and administrative functions.

Performs independent budget and policy analysis for university budget planning, forecasting, coordination, and implementation. Reviews proposed state legislation and evaluates financial impacts to support senior leadership decision-making. Prepares financial analyses and reports, manages internal budget processes, and collaborates with stakeholders across the university. The role requires strong spreadsheet, database, communication, organizational, analytical, and independent judgment skills.

Leads undergraduate tutoring and peer mentoring programs for an engineering and architecture college. Manages the tutoring center, hires and supervises student employees, partners with faculty, analyzes retention data, presents findings, and supports recruitment, career services, events, and other student success initiatives.

Develops and implements communications supporting the college’s mission, academic programs, recruitment, student success, research, and community engagement. Serves as the primary content development professional, shaping messaging strategy and coordinating consistent communications across digital, print, email, social media, and public information channels.

Coordinates enterprise information and computing systems for assigned departments, including systems administration, application support, data management, reporting and analytics, business process improvement, user training, and project coordination. Serves as the primary functional administrator for assigned systems, supports users, designs business processes, and escalates novel issues to the Director.

Leads the Washington SBDC Network, providing statewide strategic direction, program development, outreach, operational oversight, fiscal management, compliance, and stakeholder engagement. Directs a multi-location business assistance network delivering advising, training, capital access, and commercialization support to advance small business growth, job creation, and retention. Represents the network with public and private partners, manages budgets and personnel, supports funding efforts, and travels regularly throughout Washington State and occasionally nationally.

Provides academic advising and student support for a diverse EECS student population. Responsibilities include explaining academic policies, supporting reinstatement activities, participating in student activities, contributing to advising program development, and collaborating with students, faculty, advisors, and administrators. The role also involves curriculum and academic process support, data analysis, surveys, presentations, and use of university information systems.

Supports the College of Education by responding to field services and certification inquiries, maintaining records and documents, coordinating practicum placements across campuses and statewide locations, and assisting with background clearances for school placements and employment.

Processes donations and pledges from receipt through acknowledgment, including data entry, batch processing, cash handling, deposits, reconciliations, record maintenance, and documentation. Reviews transactions for accuracy, resolves discrepancies, applies fiscal and gift-processing policies, supports CRM testing and workflow improvements, and advises Advancement staff, donors, and partners on procedures. Maintains confidentiality, internal controls, and accurate donor and financial records.

Manages WSU Foundation gift processing operations, including gift and pledge intake, transaction processing, posting, receipting, cash handling, workflow prioritization, staff supervision, and compliance. Oversees high-volume financial transactions, resolves complex discrepancies, supports donors and advancement partners, improves procedures, leads training, identifies automation opportunities, and manages gift-processing technology while maintaining accurate financial and constituent records.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Mechanical and Materials Engineering responsible for developing an externally funded research program in thermal-fluids, teaching undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering courses, collaborating across disciplines, and contributing to inclusive educational experiences and university service.

Tenure-track Assistant Professor responsible for establishing an externally funded robotics and autonomous systems research program, publishing scholarly work, collaborating across disciplines, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, mentoring students, and contributing to university service. Research may focus on perception, sensing, navigation, planning, control, manipulation, robot learning, embodied AI, human-robot interaction, mechatronics, or autonomous decision-making in complex real-world environments.