Jobs at Northeastern University

Manages pre-award and post-award research administration for grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. Responsibilities include proposal budgeting and compliance review, financial account monitoring, reconciliations, transaction and subrecipient invoice approval, cost transfers, effort and compensation requests, financial reporting, closeout support, and training faculty and staff on research administration policies and regulations.

Supports international students and scholars through event planning, webinars, student organization programming, initial review of immigration-related e-form requests, and office projects. The intern collaborates with the Office of Global Services team to improve student experiences and office operations. This is a part-time hybrid role based at Northeastern University’s Boston campus during Fall 2026, with occasional evening event support.

Supports the CIO and Deputy CIOs through complex calendar management, meeting and travel coordination, expense reporting, purchasing, agendas, action-item tracking, and preparation of reports, presentations, spreadsheets, documents, and dashboards. Coordinates onboarding, offboarding, events, special projects, and HR requests while handling sensitive information and communicating with senior leaders and external constituents. The role requires independent judgment, strong organization, discretion, proofreading, and effective prioritization in a fast-paced office.

Conducts data collection, analysis, predictive modeling, and reporting for university research administration. Develops and maintains Tableau, Power BI, and Cognos dashboards; validates data across legacy and current electronic research administration systems; monitors data quality; supports system migrations; documents data pipelines and reporting logic; and improves reporting processes through automation and standardization. Collaborates with stakeholders to deliver accurate, actionable insights and supports ad hoc research analytics and AI-assisted data extraction.

Develop and maintain high-impact websites and web applications for the Burnes Center’s digital properties. Build WordPress pages, project galleries, course listings, tagging, search, and content-filtering features using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue.js, HTML, CSS, and jQuery. Support cloud-based back-end services, CMS platforms, deployments, and version control. Collaborate with stakeholders, apply accessibility standards, learn emerging technologies, and deliver quality projects under tight deadlines.

Supports the management and execution of high-priority research, executive initiatives, meetings, presentations, reports, events, and strategic projects for the External Affairs division. Responsibilities include preparing content and summaries, contributing to university-wide messaging, developing strategic opportunities, evaluating departmental submissions, editing documents, and coordinating with senior leadership and stakeholders. The role requires strong communication, research, analytical, organizational, and judgment skills in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

Provides executive administrative support to the Founding Director and Director of Executive Operations, including calendar management, meeting preparation, communications, filing, approvals, and reimbursement coordination. Coordinates cross-institute projects, tracks assignments and deadlines, supports high-visibility events, prepares presentations and documents, manages stakeholder relationships, and contributes to process improvements and special initiatives requiring independent judgment and confidentiality.

Leads the university’s technology transfer contracts function, drafting, negotiating, and managing licensing, research, commercialization, and intellectual property agreements. Evaluates contractual risk, advises on licensing strategy, ensures compliance and reporting, improves contracting systems and workflows, and collaborates with General Counsel, researchers, inventors, commercialization teams, and external partners. Supervises one Contracts Administrator and provides training, mentorship, and operational leadership.

The Applications Developer will design and develop software for cognitive process measurement tools, managing all aspects from implementation to support.

The chair holder will enhance the school's scholarly reputation through impactful research in finance and promote the Finance Group's activities.

The Executive Director will lead advancement strategies, manage a portfolio of major gift prospects, and oversee a team to secure significant philanthropic contributions for Northeastern University.

The chairholder will enhance the scholarly reputation in accounting through impactful research, mentorship, and teaching in graduate and undergraduate programs.

The Snowflake Developer designs, optimizes, and operationalizes Northeastern University's Snowflake platform, focuses on data pipelines, and collaborates with cross-functional teams to modernize legacy systems and implement AI capabilities.

Lead creative vision and execution for multimedia educational and marketing content. Manage video production and design teams, oversee virtual and studio production, drive media strategy and prototyping (including AR/VR and interactive formats), ensure brand-aligned storytelling, collaborate with stakeholders and vendors, mentor staff, and deliver scalable, high-quality learner-facing media across platforms.

The Business Relationship Manager acts as a key advisor aligning IT solutions with business strategies, fostering relationships, and overseeing project management. Responsibilities include strategic relationship building, advising on technology trends, and promoting business value through collaboration with product and service managers.

Serve as the departments front-line administrative lead for Chemical Engineering, providing reception and constituent services, office and facilities management, event coordination, financial and faculty support, student worker supervision, and process improvements. Manage communications, calendar and records, process reimbursements and purchases, coordinate onboarding/offboarding and research logistics, and lead event planning and post-event analysis to ensure smooth departmental operations.

Part-time (up to 20 hrs/week) PMO Project Manager leading mid-to-large projects across academic, administrative, and research areas. Owns full project lifecycle: scope, schedule, budget, risk, change control, team building, and stakeholder communication. Uses project tools (Smartsheet), documents deliverables, and ensures on-time, on-budget delivery.

Support departmental procure-to-pay, contracts, reimbursements, reconciliations, and budget tracking. Serve as intake for student and research staff hiring, manage purchase orders and contracts, train faculty/staff on procurement, analyze spend data, and support special projects and administrative tasks for the Business Manager.

Provide advanced administrative support for the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department, leading event planning and logistics, coordinating visitor accommodations and visa intake, supporting academic operations including course scheduling and committee administration, and assisting with special projects. Serve as primary public contact, prepare communications and event materials, and manage calendars, reimbursements, and virtual meeting coordination.

Responsible for developing and supporting inbound and outbound Workday integrations, optimizing performance, providing technical guidance, and ensuring data quality and security compliance.