Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Manages pre- and post-award sponsored research administration, including proposal development, budgets, award setup, compliance monitoring, financial reporting, cost allocations, invoicing, subawards, sponsor reports, modifications, and grant closeout. Advises faculty and research staff on university and sponsor requirements, monitors expenditures and effort reporting, resolves financial discrepancies, and coordinates with university offices and external agencies.

Provides academic advising and administrative support to Booth students across curriculum planning, course selection, degree progress, and career goals. Advises students on academic and personal challenges, communicates policies, develops advising content, supports online advising tools, presents to students, collaborates with faculty, and assists with disability accommodations. The role also manages academic support processes, student communications, and special projects across Hyde Park and downtown Chicago campuses.

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.

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.