"Project Coordinator"

Overview

Tufts University School of Medicine is seeking a highly skilled Project Coordinator to provide project management support to senior leadership. Reporting to the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, the ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of experience managing projects with various deliverables and timelines, in complex, fast-paced environments. This role is critical in ensuring the growth of innovative new offerings and smooth operation of academic affairs across the school’s 7 degree granting programs and 5000+ faculty.

What You’ll Do

• Is responsible for the production of project documents, reports, or literature.
• Responds to a variety of inquiries related to assigned projects, responding to a broad range of issues and providing relevant information to faculty, staff, students, and other constituents.
• Monitors budgets and prepares reports.
• Organizes and maintains project files and databases. Updates data and tracks project information.
• Arranges logistics for meetings, special events, assisting with planning, determining venue and coordinating production of promotional and presentation materials.
• Conducts research and gathers necessary data and background information and drafts relevant reports.
• May provide guidance and work direction to student and temporary workers and assist in training other support staff.
• Coordinates and tracks progress on strategic academic initiatives, institutional projects, and accreditation-related activities.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams across departments or schools to ensure timely completion of deliverables.

What We’re Looking For

Basic Requirements: Knowledge & Skills as typically acquired through Bachelor’s Degree and 3-5 years of related experience. Strong knowledge of Microsoft office suite, experience with project management software is desirable. Excellent organizational and customer service skills.

Pay Range

Minimum $27.30, Midpoint $32.50, Maximum $37.70. Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.

About Tufts University

Tafts is a student-centered research university with a constellation of world-class schools encompassing undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong learning programs. Across the university, students satisfy their intellectual curiosity, jump-start rewarding careers, and unlock bright, promising futures. Through rigorous academics, groundbreaking research, and a commitment to civic engagement and leadership, our community of students, faculty, and staff collaborate across four Massachusetts campuses to build a brighter world (Medford/Somerville, Grafton, Boston-Chinatown, and Boston-Fenway). Our employees light the way. Tufts develops innovative solutions for the most complex global challenges of our time through teaching, research, and an unparalleled investment in civic engagement. In administration and operations, in dining centers and in labs, every employee plays a role in our mission for a better, brighter world. At Tufts, the work you do matters. So do you. Enjoy flexible and remote opportunities, innovative benefits, and an inclusive, welcoming, collaborative culture that supports you. Develop your skills. Take classes. Advance your career. Do work that makes you proud in a community you love. All while taking great care of yourself and the people who matter most. We’re all in on creating an anti-racist culture of belonging. Across Tufts, we’ve deepened our commitment to making the university a truly inclusive place. Where every member of our community contributes and feels like they belong. Where diverse perspectives are seen as our strength, and great ideas are always heard. In offices, labs, classrooms, and beyond, we’re doing this work together, knowing it is the foundation of our mission to create a brighter world. An innovative university needs resourceful people who make things happen. Here, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, colleagues actually care, and community means everything. Sound appealing? Come join us. Choose a campus and find the role that fits you. Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply. See the University’s Non-Discrimination statement and policy here.