Jobs at The University of Chicago

Supports the Faculty Director and manages daily operations for an accounting research center. Responsibilities include budget administration, financial reporting, vendor and contract coordination, faculty recruitment logistics, research support, databases, communications, workshops, conferences, and special projects. The role also supports hiring and payroll processes, maintains the center website and digital content, and develops initiatives that expand the center’s visibility and impact.

Manages cardiac electrophysiology and large-animal cardiovascular research projects in an academic cardiology laboratory. Organizes experiments, schedules, collaborations, protocols, compliance, animal health monitoring, surgeries, laboratory procedures, data collection, literature reviews, and research documentation. Develops project plans, charters, and statements of work; supports analyses, manuscripts, and reports while maintaining animal, veterinary, experimental, and regulatory records.

Coordinates ECHO-Chicago telementoring programs, including session scheduling, facilitator and provider support, technical assistance, data collection and management, evaluations, reporting, curriculum development, social media, and research proposal support. Maintains program documentation, calendars, communications, and logistical operations while collaborating with faculty, researchers, community partners, and healthcare providers. The role also troubleshoots Zoom and connectivity issues and supports domestic travel in a hybrid work environment.

Provides administrative and operational support to department leadership and faculty. Coordinates meetings, projects, recruitment and onboarding, conferences, CME activities, communications, vendors, budgets, reporting, and office workflows. Collaborates with HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Research Administration, and Clinical Operations while maintaining confidentiality, monitoring timelines, and supporting clinical education initiatives.

Provides research support across study planning, participant recruitment, informed consent, data collection, entry and analysis, IRB compliance, literature reviews, grant applications, community engagement, and scientific dissemination. The role also supports clinical study documentation, quality assurance, research trainees, administrative operations, and presentations or publications within an interdisciplinary academic laboratory.

Provides administrative and operational support to pediatric department leadership and faculty. Coordinates meetings, projects, recruitment, onboarding, conferences, CME activities, reporting, communications, budgets, vendors, and office resources. Supports clinical education and research initiatives, monitors timelines, improves workflows, and collaborates with HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Research Administration, and Clinical Operations while handling confidential information independently.

Leads epidemiological research and data science projects focused on infectious disease prevention. Designs studies, statistical models, and reproducible data pipelines; integrates clinical, biospecimen, administrative, and external datasets; oversees data quality and provenance; develops predictive and spatial models; interprets and visualizes findings; contributes to manuscripts, grants, and presentations; and mentors research staff and learners. Collaborates with clinicians, researchers, technical teams, external institutions, and community partners.

Provides supervised technical support for biological research on gene interactions in Chironomus embryos. Responsibilities include maintaining midge cultures, collecting and documenting experimental data, entering and assisting with data analysis, and preparing reports, manuscripts, presentations, and other research documents. Performs routine laboratory duties while following institutional, state, and federal requirements.

Supervises physician revenue-cycle accounts receivable operations, including claim submission, denial resolution, appeals, payer escalations, collections, audits, and compliance. Leads internal and external staff, manages work queues, identifies root causes of denials, improves workflows, develops procedures and appeal templates, and provides training. Partners with payers, clinical departments, coding teams, hospital billing, vendors, and leadership to resolve complex issues, maintain accurate professional-fee billing, and reduce outstanding accounts receivable.

Leads data science research for a breast cancer program, developing multimodal clinical data frameworks, data dictionaries, machine learning pipelines, statistical models, and reproducible genomic analyses. Collaborates on computational tools, manages projects, drafts grants, creates training materials, supervises trainees, and supports complex data requests involving clinical, genomic, pathology, imaging, and administrative datasets.

Supports genetic and epigenetic research on asthma and allergic diseases. Responsibilities include analyzing data and specimens, conducting literature reviews, assisting with reports and manuscripts, performing laboratory experiments, maintaining research subject schedules, supporting study protocols and data collection tools, and building databases. The role requires a related degree and less than two years of relevant experience; molecular genetics bench experience is preferred.

Coordinates the Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence’s annual programs and events, including registration, logistics, budgets, vendors, speakers, communications, and event-day operations. Manages the AI Workshop seminar series, directs student workers and interns, tracks program metrics, supports promotional materials, and improves event and financial processes. The role collaborates with faculty, staff, senior leaders, vendors, and external partners while maintaining the programming calendar and ensuring effective program delivery.

Leads complex clinical research data management activities, including database oversight, document collection, quality assurance, discrepancy resolution, regulatory documentation, and corrective actions. Collaborates with principal investigators, sponsors, federal agencies, and internal review groups to ensure protocol adherence and data quality. May supervise one to two data managers, assign workloads, provide performance feedback, and support recruitment.

Supports research lab operations, grant administration, budgets, contracts, purchasing, facilities, HR activities, compliance, and strategic projects. Develops proposals, reports, manuscripts, web content, and presentations; manages partnerships and research dissemination. Assists with community-engaged research, data collection, literature reviews, and analysis while coordinating with university administrators, external collaborators, vendors, and the principal investigator.

Manages end-to-end accounts receivable, invoicing, collections, reconciliations, deferred revenue, journal entries, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, procurement support, tax documentation, and financial reporting. Partners with accounting, sales, customer, research administration, and leadership teams to resolve discrepancies and maintain accurate financial records. The role requires detail-oriented financial operations experience in a remote, collaborative environment.

Develops, maintains, and optimizes research software, backend services, and prototypes primarily in Python. Collaborates with researchers to translate scientific goals into scalable solutions, applies testing and version-control practices, optimizes performance, and deploys software on HPC and cloud platforms. The role also includes project planning, documentation, code reviews, technical support, and resolving software problems. This is a one-year hybrid position with possible extension.

Administers the University's conflict of interest and conflict of commitment compliance programs. Reviews disclosures for research protocols, grants, contracts, and awards; develops and monitors management plans; advises faculty and staff; delivers training; maintains compliance records; and collaborates with research administration, IRB, export controls, and research security teams. The role interprets federal regulations and institutional policies, identifies compliance risks, supports audits, and recommends process improvements.

Designs, develops, and operates AWS cloud infrastructure and production services for a research-computing platform. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, software development, CI/CD, machine-image pipelines, monitoring, observability, security automation, IAM, incident response, and operational support. The role participates in architecture, on-call rotations, root-cause analysis, and cross-team technical guidance while improving reliability and eliminating operational toil.

Manages the AI for Weather program portfolio, coordinating research projects, scientific meetings, industry and government stakeholders, multi-institutional convenings, budgets, proposals, grant reporting, communications, and quality assurance. The role supports faculty leads and ensures initiatives meet timelines, budgets, scientific goals, and policy objectives while identifying new partnerships and project opportunities.

Administers pre-award and post-award grants and contracts, including proposal preparation, budgeting, account reconciliation, forecasting, compliance, reporting, subcontracting, closeout, and transaction approvals. Advises principal investigators and faculty, liaises with university offices and sponsors, monitors regulatory requirements, and manages research, gift, endowment, and operating accounts. Provides mentoring, training, policy guidance, and specialized support for sponsored research activities.