Jobs at Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Leads major gift fundraising for Santa Clara University by managing a portfolio of 125 high-net-worth prospects. Responsibilities include identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donors; developing proposals and solicitation strategies; collaborating with university leaders; tracking donor activity in Blackbaud CRM; incorporating planned giving; and meeting fundraising performance goals. The role requires frequent external meetings, travel, relationship management, and demonstrated success securing substantial annual gifts.

Performs university-wide cybersecurity operations, including security request triage, risk consultations, workflow automation, API integrations, incident investigation, alert and vulnerability triage, and incident reporting. Reviews third-party systems, infrastructure configurations, identity environments, and data flows for security weaknesses and compliance with FERPA, HIPAA, GLBA, PCI, and related standards. Partners with IT teams and stakeholders to remediate risks and improve security processes.

Supervises evening and weekend library circulation and help desk operations. Processes borrowing, course reserves, holds, interlibrary loans, billing, catalog updates, and retrieval requests. Provides customer and basic reference assistance, resolves patron issues, oversees student employees, manages schedules, opens and secures the library, and supports collection and service improvement projects. Requires an associate degree and two years of library circulation or equivalent customer service experience.

Manages interlibrary loan, document delivery, and LINK+ resource-sharing services for a university library. Oversees daily workflows, service quality, policies, copyright compliance, statistics, staff development, and operational improvements using library automation systems. Supervises library and student assistants, staffs the help desk, provides basic patron assistance, supports circulation, participates in assessment and committees, and coordinates with internal and external library partners.

Provides Tier Two, on-site and remote technical support for faculty, staff, students, and guests. Administers Jamf Pro and Microsoft Intune, manages macOS and Windows imaging, patching, policies, encryption, and endpoint management. Troubleshoots hardware, software, networking, MFA, VPN, printing, telephony, and account issues. Maintains Active Directory and lab systems, develops automation and documentation, manages support tickets, and performs hardware repairs and provisioning.

Leads graduate online program recruiting, enrollment strategy, outreach, marketing analysis, and admissions operations. Manages recruitment forecasts, CRM processes, campaigns, events, prospect communications, and student engagement while partnering with graduate schools and financial aid teams. Supervises two assistant recruiting directors, develops team training, monitors funnel performance, and drives application, admission, yield, and enrollment targets.

Provides administrative and operational support for a university accessibility education office. Responsibilities include front desk and constituent support, budget tracking and reconciliation, purchasing, staff supervision, website and communications management, AIM portal administration, event coordination, confidential records handling, compliance support, and process improvement. The role also assists students, faculty, and staff with accessibility-related workflows while coordinating office operations, testing logistics, outreach, reports, and safety requirements.

Conducts neutral, thorough Title IX, EEO, civil rights, harassment, discrimination, and retaliation investigations involving university students, faculty, and staff. Responsibilities include investigative planning, interviewing parties and witnesses, evidence collection, credibility assessments, report writing, policy and legal analysis, informal resolution support, compliance monitoring, outreach, training, and confidential case management.

Manages daily development operations and provides strategic administrative support across fundraising teams. Responsibilities include calendar and travel coordination, budgeting and financial reconciliation, hiring and onboarding support, vendor contracts, records management, donor and gift administration, event logistics, project coordination, reporting, and workflow improvement. The role supports donor engagement, fundraising programs, team development, and cross-functional collaboration while handling confidential information and maintaining efficient departmental operations.

Leads cross-functional strategic initiatives supporting the launch and operation of a new university school. Manages project scope, timelines, resources, budgets, workstreams, partnerships, and executive communications. Coordinates curriculum development, accreditation, governance, staffing, facilities, and student-support planning. Conducts research, analyzes data, prepares recommendations and executive materials, and supports financial management. Requires discretion, diplomacy, independent judgment, and collaboration with academic, administrative, healthcare, and external stakeholders.

Plans and executes reunion fundraising campaigns for assigned undergraduate classes, cultivating alumni donors, recruiting and managing volunteers, coordinating direct mail and email outreach, and soliciting leadership gifts of $1,000 to $100,000. The role analyzes campaign results, maintains donor records, coordinates with major and planned giving teams, stewards volunteers and donors, and conducts frequent local fieldwork plus semi-annual travel.

Administers and optimizes high-performance computing infrastructure, including Linux and Windows systems, compute nodes, parallel storage, InfiniBand networks, Slurm scheduling, backups, virtualization, and monitoring. Supports system imaging, patching, security, disaster recovery, capacity planning, software licensing, and infrastructure upgrades. Collaborates with enterprise IT, information security, vendors, faculty, and students; documents procedures, provides technical guidance, participates in projects, and performs on-call support. Requires hands-on troubleshooting, automation, customer service, and continuous infrastructure improvement.

Manages daily operations and strategic administrative support for the Annual Giving team and Executive Director. Responsibilities include budgeting, expense reconciliation, reporting, donor database maintenance, prospect research, calendar and travel coordination, hiring administration, meetings, vendor invoices, document management, and confidential communications. The role also analyzes team effectiveness, supports donor engagement, prepares departmental reports, and contributes to special projects.

Provides senior administrative support to the School of Engineering Dean’s Office, including calendar and event coordination, policy and workflow maintenance, financial transactions and budget reconciliation, visitor and hiring logistics, onboarding, communications support, records management, and occasional supervision of student employees. Coordinates events from planning through execution and collaborates with university departments, vendors, faculty, staff, students, and external partners.

Manages implementation of a $10 million, five-year university grant, coordinating project plans, timelines, budgets, compliance, reporting, partner contracts, stakeholder communications, events, and evaluation. The role tracks multiple workstreams, identifies risks, supports governance committees, prepares narrative and financial reports, and coordinates internal departments and external partners. It may provide direction to grant personnel and requires occasional travel. The position is initially a three-year fixed-term appointment with potential extension.

Leads Santa Clara Athletics marketing, revenue strategy, fan engagement, and game presentation. Develops integrated campaigns, digital advertising, email marketing, ticket-revenue initiatives, promotional programming, and audience-growth strategies. Oversees basketball marketing, game-day experiences, spirit programs, vendors, staff, interns, and student employees. Uses CRM data and campaign analytics to optimize attendance, revenue, retention, and engagement while coordinating with campus departments, sponsors, conference organizations, and external partners.

Leads international undergraduate recruitment and enrollment initiatives, including outreach, relationship development, admissions evaluation, CRM administration, communications, events, territory management, and student engagement. Evaluates international credentials, coordinates with immigration services, develops data-informed recruitment strategies, represents the university domestically and internationally, and mentors admission staff and student ambassadors. The role requires extensive travel, cross-cultural communication, event management, and collaboration with campus partners.

Manages investment accounting, gift accounting, tax reporting, endowment reporting, financial statement preparation, audits, fund allocations, and finance representative activities. Supervises accounting staff, coordinates tax filings and external auditors, oversees endowment software and income modeling, trains campus users on Workday Financials, and supports process improvements and financial compliance.

Leads undergraduate recruitment and outreach for Southern California and other assigned regions. Manages high school, counselor, community college, and organizational partnerships; plans recruitment events; evaluates first-year and transfer applications; supports prospective students through enrollment; develops communications, reports, and data-informed strategies; and contributes to admissions policy, operations, training, and leadership. The role requires extensive domestic and occasional international travel and may include future supervisory responsibilities.

Leads architecture, security, integrations, reporting, configuration, and development across Workday Finance and legacy PeopleSoft ERP systems. Provides technical and project leadership, gathers requirements, designs and deploys system enhancements, troubleshoots issues, supports data conversions, and mentors enterprise applications staff. Maintains system standards, evaluates new functionality, supports release testing, and collaborates with stakeholders and the Workday community to improve enterprise applications.