Jobs at The University of Chicago

Leads Court Theatre’s producing strategy and artistic operations as chief producing executive and principal partner to the Artistic Director. Oversees multi-year production planning, institutional portfolios, budgets, schedules, staffing, contracts, co-productions, touring, commissions, partnerships, and production workflows. Supervises artistic operations personnel, negotiates agreements, manages external relationships, ensures labor and policy compliance, and balances artistic ambition with financial and organizational capacity.

The Chief Preparator manages museum exhibition and collections projects, including exhibit design, fabrication, installation, de-installation, art handling, packing, framing, lighting, audiovisual setup, and facility maintenance. The role supervises preparatory crews and contractors, coordinates with artists, curators, conservators, registrars, and facilities teams, manages project budgets and schedules, maintains storage and production spaces, and ensures compliance with safety, accessibility, and museum collection-care standards.

Conduct collaborative quantitative healthcare research, including data collection, statistical analysis, literature reviews, database design, and manuscript preparation. The researcher supports faculty projects, mentors student teams, contributes to healthcare analytics courses, and helps convert real-world healthcare projects into publishable research and teaching cases. Responsibilities also include guiding data evaluation, presenting at academic forums, collaborating with researchers and sponsors, and assisting with research group administration.

Leads platform engineering and infrastructure reliability across on-premises and cloud environments. Responsibilities include Linux systems administration, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, logging, automation, security hardening, access integration, and production support. Develops Python and shell scripts, manages containerized and virtual environments, mentors engineers, supports research and administrative applications, documents technical practices, and participates in an off-hours on-call rotation.

Conducts prospect research and analyzes biographical, financial, grants, and fundraising data to support foundation and corporate relations. Maintains organization records in Phoenix, reconciles data across AURA, Orbit, and Phoenix, develops reports and forecasts, and recommends strategies to improve fundraising outcomes. Coordinates with research administration, gift administration, and gift officers; supports goal setting, financial reviews, prospect management, campaign reporting, and special projects.

The Associate Director manages a portfolio of major gift prospects, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding alumni and friends capable of gifts from $100,000 to $4.9 million. The role develops donor engagement strategies, manages fundraising pipelines, coordinates with university stakeholders, achieves solicitation and revenue goals, prepares communications and reports, and represents the College at alumni events. Regular travel throughout an assigned geographic region, including outside Illinois, is required.

Leads strategic planning, campaign management, and executive office coordination across Advancement. Translates executive priorities into integrated plans, governance structures, timelines, accountability, and measurable outcomes. Manages project managers, aligns cross-functional stakeholders, resolves complex organizational issues, oversees campaign governance and budgets, and develops executive and board materials. Leads strategic planning processes, synthesizes performance insights, supports fundraising initiatives, and improves operational systems, processes, and decision-making infrastructure.

Designs and delivers online, hybrid, and in-person learning experiences for adult professional learners. Manages course production, publishing, maintenance, and quality assurance in Canvas; collaborates with instructors and subject matter experts; analyzes evaluations and learner feedback; ensures accessibility and instructional quality; documents workflows and standards; troubleshoots delivery issues; and evaluates LMS features and educational technologies to improve learner engagement and operational efficiency.

Provides career counseling, coaching, programming, and advising to law students and alumni pursuing judicial clerkships and internships. Supports clerkship program strategy, faculty committee reporting, data analysis, resource development, alumni outreach, market research, and career services operations. Delivers workshops, lectures, events, and individual coaching while maintaining records and collaborating with judges, faculty, staff, students, and external organizations.

Leads the strategy, design, delivery, and evaluation of employee learning programs focused on fundraising, alumni relations, campaign education, systems, and data. Develops adult-learning curricula, e-learning, videos, manuals, assessments, and scalable training resources. Delivers programs through in-person, virtual, blended, and self-paced formats; manages logistics, stakeholders, consultants, and learning technologies. Measures outcomes, updates content, supports responsible AI adoption, and recommends improvements based on participant feedback, organizational needs, and performance data.

Coordinates clinical schedules in Qgenda, analyzes schedule optimization opportunities, and supports departmental administrative operations. Responsibilities include faculty onboarding, events, visitor logistics, communications, website and newsletter updates, surveys, training follow-up, office and asset management, alumni relations, and liaison work with university departments. The role also supports clinical education initiatives, process improvement, and special projects in a complex academic medical environment.

Designs and analyzes basic science, clinical, and population-based studies. Provides statistical guidance on sampling, randomization, data management, interim monitoring, and analysis. Produces reproducible workflows, statistical programs, reports, tables, charts, grant proposal content, and manuscript sections. Advises investigators on data interpretation and supports publication of research findings.

Provides Tier 1 support to faculty, staff, applicants, and vendors through phone, chat, email, and ServiceNow. Resolves inquiries involving finance, HR, payroll, grants, and administrative systems; navigates Oracle Cloud and Workday; documents interactions; escalates complex issues; supports routine reporting, testing, training feedback, and service desk operations.

Writes and edits high-level fundraising communications for prospective donors, foundations, corporations, and volunteers. Develops proposals, correspondence, stewardship reports, presentations, and scientific or technical content. Researches and verifies information, tailors messages to audiences, coordinates with internal teams, facilitates donor-related meetings, and project-manages deliverables, timelines, and team activity. Also contributes to communications strategy, prospect analysis, and occasional budget analysis.

Manages day-to-day laboratory operations, purchasing, inventory, vendors, equipment maintenance, compliance, documentation, schedules, onboarding, safety training, and vivarium activities. Supervises and mentors laboratory staff, supports rodent experiments, coordinates research workflows, assists with data collection and analysis, conducts literature reviews, contributes to reports and manuscripts, and helps ensure research projects meet operational and regulatory requirements.

Coordinates medical education administration for neurology, including medical student and resident schedules, orientations, evaluations, examinations, Grand Rounds, speaker logistics, CME compliance, and accreditation requirements. Serves as a liaison among students, trainees, faculty, leadership, university and hospital personnel, and external parties. Manages competing priorities, resolves administrative issues, maintains documentation, and supports UME and GME program operations.

Conduct targeted and untargeted LC-MS and GC-MS metabolomics research, including study design, instrument maintenance, structural elucidation, data analysis, and scientific writing. Develop and validate quantitative blood and fecal assays in a CLIA/CAP-regulated clinical laboratory. Manage clinical sample testing, quality control, SOPs, safety protocols, sample logistics, and results reporting while collaborating with scientists, clinicians, and industry partners.

Coordinates and oversees clinical and health services research projects involving opioid use, chronic pain, minoritized populations, electronic health record interventions, pragmatic trials, and implementation science. Responsibilities include IRB management, research staff oversight, qualitative interviews, intervention and instrument development, data collection and analysis, grant support, budget management, stakeholder engagement, and contributions to manuscripts, presentations, and strategic research planning.

Develops and supports computational solutions for faculty research using HPC, AI, cloud, and GPU technologies. Responsibilities include optimizing scientific software and workflows, advising researchers, supporting machine learning tools and model serving, troubleshooting HPC applications, contributing to grant proposals, evaluating emerging technologies, creating documentation and training, and improving research computing services. The role requires close collaboration with multidisciplinary research teams in a hybrid environment.

Oversees college disciplinary and academic standing processes, including investigations, case resolution, committee leadership, appeals, records, compliance reporting, and student communications. Advises faculty and university partners on conduct and academic integrity, analyzes trends, develops educational programming, and manages related technology and data systems. Supervises OCCS staff, supports hiring and budgeting, maintains communications, and collaborates with campus offices to assist students facing academic, personal, or disciplinary challenges.