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Supports Medicine and Biological Sciences Development fundraising activities, including donor and volunteer engagement, events, meetings, correspondence, gift processing, database maintenance, reporting, and fundraising materials. Coordinates logistics, researches development data, supports volunteer groups, and collaborates with fundraisers, vendors, campus colleagues, faculty, and donors to advance giving strategies and meet fundraising goals.

Administers NIH T32 and F31 training grant awards through post-award financial management, budget monitoring, expenditure tracking, stipend and salary allocation oversight, reporting, compliance reviews, audits, and account closeout. Serves as liaison to faculty, trainees, departmental administrators, University Research Administration, and NIH officials. Provides guidance on NIH policies, federal regulations, effort reporting, prior approvals, cost transfers, and institutional processes while maintaining award data and financial system integrity.

Creates and manages visual content across social media, websites, email, and YouTube. Responsibilities include graphic design, short-form and higher-production video support, Canva template management, digital asset organization, accessibility compliance, paid social creative, website updates, email production, and social scheduling. The role translates complex climate and energy topics into compelling visual communications while maintaining brand consistency and supporting multimedia and communications teams.

Leads a team overseeing post-award research administration, including outgoing subawards, complex award portfolios, financial projections, transactions, reporting, agency approvals, policy updates, compliance, and process improvement. Supervises staff, manages performance and development, liaises with faculty, university offices, and external agencies, and ensures adherence to institutional and federal requirements.

Provides Tier 1 technical support for faculty, staff, and students across Windows and Apple devices. Responsibilities include troubleshooting hardware, software, connectivity, email, peripherals, and enterprise applications; configuring and upgrading endpoints; managing tickets and asset inventories; documenting solutions; maintaining security compliance; coordinating escalations; and delivering customer support through phone, email, chat, walk-up, and web channels.

Executes integrated marketing campaigns for professional and executive education programs across digital, email, paid, social, web, video, and partner channels. Develops content, manages audience segmentation and communications, coordinates webinars and marketing projects, supports AI-enabled marketing experimentation, and monitors campaign, engagement, lead-generation, and enrollment performance. Collaborates with academic teams, vendors, agencies, analytics teams, and internal stakeholders to strengthen brand awareness, learner engagement, and portfolio growth.

Supports individual giving and development teams by coordinating fundraising activities, donor and volunteer engagement, meetings, events, correspondence, gift processing, database maintenance, reports, presentations, and marketing materials. The role collaborates with fundraisers, vendors, campus colleagues, volunteers, and leadership to increase donor participation, revenue, and engagement while maintaining accurate development records and procedures.

Designs and delivers secure, scalable backend services for Globus’s cloud-based data management and automation platform. Responsibilities include architecting asynchronous APIs and data services, developing and testing Python software, deploying and operating highly available SaaS and PaaS systems, supporting users, reviewing code, mentoring engineers, and optimizing performance. The role also contributes to cross-service integration, documentation, project planning, recruitment, and on-call support.

Coordinates departmental seminars, conferences, workshops, and special events, including scheduling, guest travel, facilities, vendors, catering, communications, reimbursements, and invoices. Manages calendars, budgets, reports, and office operations while providing backup website and social media support. Serves as a liaison with faculty, staff, students, external speakers, university offices, and building managers.

Supports pre-award and post-award grant and contract administration, including proposal preparation, budgeting, account creation, expense allocation, reconciliations, compliance monitoring, salary allocations, reporting, invoicing, audits, and grant closeout. Serves as an account administrator and provides financial guidance and customer service to faculty, researchers, administrators, and university offices.