Jobs at Iona University

Leads Iona University's grant-funded ELEVATE project, coordinating implementation, budgets, procurement, compliance, reporting, evaluation, AI integration, student-success systems, and sustainability planning. Collaborates with academic, career, technology, institutional research, faculty, staff, and external partners to connect learning with workforce preparation, credentials, experiential learning, and career opportunities. Uses data to monitor outcomes, identify student needs, resolve barriers, and guide institutional improvements, with a focus on low-income and first-generation students.

Coordinates daily operations for a university-affiliated economic and small business development hub. Responsibilities include client intake, scheduling business assistance sessions, maintaining records and databases, processing referrals, supporting advising staff, coordinating workshops and webinars, promoting programs through social media and newsletters, compiling reports, and overseeing the physical space and student interns. The role requires strong administrative, communication, data management, community engagement, and content creation skills.

Leads Iona University's pep band, directing rehearsals and approximately 30 basketball game performances annually. Responsibilities include musical instruction, arrangement selection, student recruitment and mentorship, scheduling, budgeting, fundraising, communications, logistics, and maintaining instruments and facilities. The role requires extensive nighttime and weekend availability during basketball season and is a renewable, part-time stipend position.

Provides administrative and office operations support for Residential Life, including scheduling, correspondence, records, purchasing, financial deposits, phone and visitor assistance, vendor coordination, and confidential occupancy information management. Supports departmental events and supervises, trains, and schedules student office assistants. The role requires occasional evening and weekend work during peak periods and special events.

Provides in-person and virtual research assistance to students and university community members. Creates research guides, teaches research instruction, supports electronic resource use, conducts building rounds, compiles statistics, and assists with circulation and student worker management. The role also includes opening and closing the library, maintaining library operations, and working scheduled evening and weekend hours, with potential additional holiday hours.

Leads academic services for student athletes, developing support programs that promote academic success, retention, eligibility, degree completion, and holistic development. Monitors academic progress, coordinates advising and interventions, supports NCAA eligibility certification, collaborates with coaches and university partners, and supervises athletics academic support staff.

Conduct prospect identification, wealth screening, and donor research for major and principal gift fundraising. Analyze advancement and constituent data, create prospect profiles, dashboards, and reports, maintain Raiser's Edge data integrity, and establish scalable screening and prospect-management processes. The role collaborates with gift officers, Advancement leadership, Information Technology, and Advancement Services while supporting data migration, enrichment, deduplication, and workflow improvements through technology and automation.

Advise prospective, transfer, and enrolled undergraduate students on course selection, degree requirements, majors, minors, transfer credits, academic standing, and graduation planning. Maintain student records, conduct milestone degree reviews, resolve curriculum and policy questions, communicate with students, support front-desk operations, and coordinate with academic and student-support offices to promote persistence and timely degree completion.

Leads major gift fundraising for Iona University by managing a portfolio of 50–70 high-capacity prospects, cultivating and soliciting donors, and stewarding philanthropic relationships. Oversees current parent giving, advances the Parents’ Leadership Council, partners with campus leaders on athletics and performing arts opportunities, conducts prospect research, and supports major university events and initiatives.