Job Families & Job Subfamilies

This job family includes roles that directly support the academic mission of the institution. These positions provide operational, analytical, and programmatic support for teaching, curriculum delivery, academic records, research activities, and experiential learning. Work in this family often involves close collaboration with faculty, academic leadership, and students to ensure high-quality academic programs and services.

Subfamilies:

• Academic Business Affairs
• Academic Records
• Advising
• Faculty Support
• Field & Clinical Experiences
• Institutional Research
• Instructional Design & Support
• International Programs & Services
• Laboratory Operations
• Program Administration
• Research Administration

This job family includes roles that provide essential clerical, administrative, and operational coordination to support departments and offices across the University. These positions often serve as the first point of contact, manage office processes, support scheduling and correspondence, coordinate logistics, and ensure department workflows run smoothly.

Subfamilies:

• Administrative Assistance
• Department/Program Assistance
• Executive Assistance
• Office Management

This job family supports the university’s advancement by cultivating relationships with donors, alumni, corporations, foundations, and friends of the University. Roles involve fundraising, stewardship, gift administration, sponsorships and engagement activities that support institutional priorities. Work requires strong communication, relationship management, and strategic planning to enhance philanthropic support and alumni involvement.

Subfamilies:

• Advancement Services
• Alumni Relations
• Annual Giving
• Development & Fundraising
• Donor Relations & Stewardship
• Institutional Giving
• Major Gifts
• Operations & Strategy
• Research & Prospect Management

This job family supports competitive intercollegiate and recreational athletic programs. Work includes coaching student-athletes, ensuring regulatory compliance, managing athletic facilities, delivering sports medicine services, and coordinating game operations and communications. Roles contribute to athlete development, team performance, and the overall student-athlete experience.

Subfamilies:

• Administration & Operations
• Coaching
• Facilities & Equipment
• Sports Communication
• Sports Medicine
• Strength & Conditioning

This job family encompasses the creation, production, delivery, and support of broadcast and digital media content across radio, streaming, and related platforms. Roles within this family contribute to journalism, storytelling, and audience engagement through activities such as reporting, writing, editing, and on air presentation, as well as behind the scenes technical and operational functions. Work in this family includes content production, programming, and broadcast operations, equipment maintenance and technical support, traffic and scheduling coordination, and the development and management of underwriting and sponsorship relationships. Positions collectively ensure the editorial quality, technical reliability, regulatory compliance, and financial sustainability of broadcast services.

Subfamilies:

• Content Production
• Maintenance & Equipment Operations
• On-Air Talent
• Programming & Operations
• Traffic & Scheduling
• Underwriting & Sponsorship

This job family focuses on the planning, coordination, execution, and evaluation of conferences, meetings, and events that support institutional, academic, and community engagement objectives. Roles may include event strategy and logistics, vendor and venue coordination, budgeting, marketing support, registration management, and on-site operations. Positions ensure high-quality event experiences while maintaining compliance, accessibility, and effective use of resources.

Subfamilies:

• Event Planning & Administration
• Ticketing & Sales 

This job family includes roles responsible for the planning, design, construction, architectural design and technical oversight of the University’s physical infrastructure. Positions in this family apply engineering principles, professional standards, and regulatory requirements to ensure that facilities and capital projects are safe, functional, sustainable, and aligned with institutional priorities.

Subfamilies:

• Design & Construction

This job family encompasses roles responsible for the operational administration and infrastructure that support student enrollment functions across the University. These positions ensure the accuracy, integrity, and efficiency of enrollment-related processes and systems. Work within this job family includes application and record processing, data management, systems support, compliance monitoring, reporting, and cross-functional coordination. Roles focus on executing and maintaining enrollment operations, supporting institutional policies, and ensuring a high standard of administrative service delivery.

Subfamilies:

• Enrollment Operations
• Technical Support

This job family includes roles responsible for cultivating and maintaining relationships with governmental agencies, community organizations, and civic partners. Work often involves advocacy, policy analysis, community engagement, partnership development, and representing the institution’s interests to external stakeholders.

Subfamilies:

• Community Affairs & Engagement
• Government & Federal Relations

These roles are responsible for maintaining and enhancing the University’s physical environment. Work includes building maintenance, custodial services, groundskeeping, and capital planning. Positions ensure campus facilities are safe, functional, efficient, and aligned with long-term infrastructure goals.

Subfamilies:

• Custodial Services
• Facilities Operations

This job family includes financial and operational roles that support budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, procurement, investment management, risk assessment, and financial planning. Positions require strong analytical skills, regulatory knowledge, and financial stewardship to support institutional financial sustainability.

Subfamilies:

• Academic Financial Management
• Accounting
• Accounts Payable & Receivable
• Budget & Financial Analysis
• Financial Management
• Grants & Contract Administration
• Investments
• Payroll
• Sourcing & Procurement
• Treasury & Risk

This job family supports the recruitment, development, engagement, and retention of the University’s workforce. Work includes compensation analysis, benefits administration, employee and labor relations, HR systems and data, training and organizational development. 

Subfamilies:

• Benefits
• Compensation
• Employee & Labor Relations
• HR Data & Systems
• HR Operations
• Organization & Leadership Development
• Talent Management

This job family manages the institution's technology strategy, infrastructure, security, applications, data systems, and digital engagement initiatives. Roles include systems administration, network support, cybersecurity, instructional technology, enterprise systems, client support, and emerging technologies such as AI and cloud services.

Subfamilies:

• Application Services
• Digital Engagement
• Enterprise AI
• Infrastructure
• Instructional Technology
• IT Client Services
• IT Operations
• IT Planning
• Platform Services
• Portfolio Management
• Security & Risk
• Web Development

Roles in this job family ensure institutional compliance with legal, regulatory, and policy requirements. Work includes legal administration, regulatory oversight, contract review support, internal audit, and risk mitigation activities to protect the University’s operational and strategic integrity.

Subfamilies:

• Compliance
• Internal Audit
• Legal Operations

This job family includes roles that manage, preserve, and provide access to academic resources and institutional records. Work involves cataloging, acquisitions, reference support, digital resource management, archiving, and facilitating student and faculty research through library services.

Subfamilies:

• Collections & Acquisitions
• Electronic Resources
• Library Management
• Reference & Instruction

Roles in this job family shape and communicate the University's identity, reputation, and strategic messaging. Work includes content development, brand strategy, media relations, design and creative services, project management, enrollment-focused marketing, and performance analytics supporting institutional visibility and engagement.

Subfamilies:

• Content & Channel Engagement
• Enrollment Marketing
• Marketing Communications
• Project Management & Operations
• Strategy, Research & Performance

Roles in this job family are dedicated to advancing the institution’s core values, heritage, and mission. Roles may provide pastoral care, spiritual programming, service initiatives, and mission-focused strategy and outreach to strengthen community engagement and the institution’s identity.

Subfamilies:

• Campus Ministry
• Mission Strategy & Initiatives

This job family includes roles supporting theater productions, artistic programming, and performance-related operations. Work involves stage management, technical direction, event production, venue operations, and coordination of artistic and technical elements for performances.

Subfamilies:

• Show Production
• Theatre Operations

Roles in this job family are responsible for ensuring the safety and security of the campus community. Work includes law enforcement, emergency planning, environmental health compliance, fire safety, investigations, and safety education to support a secure learning and working environment.

Subfamilies:

• Emergency Preparedness
• Environmental Health & Safety
• Fire Safety
• Investigations
• Policing & Security

Roles in this job family are dedicated to supporting the academic, personal, social, residential, and wellness needs of students. Work spans admissions, advising, student life, career services, health and counseling, inclusion efforts, veteran support, student financial services, and overall student engagement.

Subfamilies:

• Activities & Engagement
• Admissions
• Career Services
• Disability Services
• Equity & Title IX Services
• Financial Services
• Inclusion Operations
• Mental & Behavioral Health Services
• Military & Veteran Services
• Residence Life
• Student Affairs
• Student Health
• Student Success
• Transportation

This job family includes roles that provide executive-level and operational leadership, as well as day-to-day logistical and administrative infrastructure support across the University. Positions in this family ensure the efficient coordination, execution, and delivery of essential campus services that enable institutional continuity and effectiveness.

Subfamilies:

• Executive Operations
• Mail Services
• Media & Public Relations
• Printing Services

This job family supports the university's academic mission through the acquisition, development, production, and dissemination of scholarly, educational, and general-interest publications. Roles may include editorial oversight, peer-review coordination, manuscript development, production, design, marketing, distribution, and rights management. Positions advance research, scholarship, and public knowledge while upholding academic publishing standards and the reputation of the institution.

Subfamilies:

• Acquisitions & Editorial Development
• Marketing & Sales
• Rights, Permissions & Licensing