Senior Project Administrator

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Camden, NJ 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $78K - $115K 💻 Administrator 🗓️ April 16th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Rutgers University is hiring a Senior Project Administrator for the Senator Walter Rand Institute for Public Affairs at the Camden campus. The role involves developing, coordinating, and managing complex research and evaluation projects focusing on social issues such as substance use, food insecurity, and education across Southern New Jersey. The Senior Project Administrator will lead research teams, manage relationships with partners and funders, ensure compliance with research guidelines, handle budgets and timelines, and communicate findings to diverse audiences.

Highlights

Manage and coordinate large mixed-methods community-focused research projects as Principal Investigator or project coordinator.
Lead WRI research teams through all research phases including proposal drafting, data collection, analysis, reporting, and dissemination.
Serve as relationship manager with foundations, state/local agencies, and community organizations.
Communicate research findings effectively to academic and non-academic audiences via presentations, panels, webinars, and written reports.
Utilize social science research methods including quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Required technical knowledge includes statistical software (SPSS, Stata, SAS, R, Python), qualitative tools (NVivo), GIS/mapping (ArcGIS, QGIS, Tableau), survey tools (Qualtrics), and productivity tools (Microsoft Office, Google Workspace).
Bachelor's degree plus 5 years relevant experience required; advanced degree and experience in social research and evaluation preferred.
Valid driver’s license and reliable transportation required for fieldwork and public engagement across the region.
Starting salary ranges from $77,919 to $114,989 based on qualifications and experience.
Full-time grant-funded position with benefits including medical, dental, retirement plans, and educational benefits.