Education Jobs in Illinois with E-3 Sponsorship
Education E-3 sponsorship jobs in Illinois are concentrated in Chicago's university corridor and the broader Chicagoland metro, where institutions like the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Chicago Public Schools regularly hire internationally. Curriculum developers, instructional designers, and academic coordinators in specialty roles are among the most common E-3-eligible positions in the state's education sector.
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Provost Research Computing Center
About the Department
The University of Chicago Research Computing Center (RCC), a unit in the Office of Research, provides high-end research computing resources to researchers at the University of Chicago. It is dedicated to enabling research by providing access to centrally managed High-Performance Computing (HPC), storage, and visualization resources. These resources include hardware, software, high-level scientific and technical user support, and the education and training required to help researchers make full use of modern HPC technology and local and national supercomputing resources. The Office of Research oversees the conduct of sponsored research, research program development, and contract management functions.
Job Summary
The job uses best practices and knowledge of non-technical (not information technology or construction related) projects from conception to completion. Assembles teams and develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports while being the point of contact for those projects.
The Research Computing Center (RCC) is seeking an experienced, hands-on Assistant Director of Project Management to oversee a variety of complex projects, including High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure initiatives, faculty-supported research projects, and internal RCC efforts. This role ensures RCC meets its deliverables timely and provides high-quality customer service. It focuses on prompt execution, managing procurements, deployments, system rollouts, and ongoing coordination across technical teams and faculty stakeholders. Reporting to the Director of the Research Computing Center, the Assistant Director for Project Management will be a strategic partner responsible for driving all assigned projects to successful completion.
This is a hybrid position requiring at least 3 days per week onsite.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate all aspects of complex projects ranging from research projects to multi-million-dollar equipment acquisitions. Oversee cross-functional project teams to ensure accountability and timely progress.
- Lead project management of HPC and AI systems procurement, installation, and deployment including developing and managing project detailed plans, timelines, milestones and task tracking.
- Coordinate systems engineers, data center teams, university vendors, and external partners to ensure smooth delivery and installation. Track hardware orders, supply chain timelines and installation readiness.
- Establish the use of effective project management tools to maintain strong project frameworks and supportive reporting systems and tools for RCC staff and partners.
- Monitor progress of all RCC projects, anticipate project-related risks, and proactively take the necessary steps to mitigate those risks. Offers solutions and escalates when appropriate.
- Provide regular, structured status updates to RCC leadership and key project stakeholders, and effectively lead recurring status meetings during project implementation. Maintain comprehensive documentation of project status, key decisions, and action items, and prepare formal reports as needed for leadership and stakeholders.
- Strategically assess RCC project pipelines continuously seeking new and/or more effective ways of working. Consistently brings these recommendations to leadership.
- Support and serve as an active participant during audits and annual assessments.
- Cultivate partnerships with faculty and staff to ensure quality service and successful collaborations as well as develop strong business relationships with university vendors.
- Develop staff’s project management skills, and encourage group leads to implement project management best practices and tools, including assisting and encouraging team(s) to meet all deliverables sufficiently and on time.
- Act as a resource for a project team and provides analytical guidance. Interprets complex project issues and provides analytical guidance to a project team.
- Coordinates the successful integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
- Perform other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:
Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Certifications:
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
- Master's degree.
Experience:
- Experience managing projects or programs in an academic or research environment.
- Experience with project management software.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or other project management certification.
- Experience creating reports and documentation.
Preferred Competencies
- Strong organization skills and detail oriented with proven ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities.
- Strong planning skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and deliver results within tight deadlines.
- High degree of project ownership and accountability.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical staff and faculty researchers.
- High level of discretion, integrity, professionalism, and interpersonal effectiveness.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Application Documents
- C/V or resume (required)
- Cover letter (preferred)
When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.
Job Family
Administration & Management
Role Impact
Individual Contributor
Scheduled Weekly Hours
37.5
Drug Test Required
No
Health Screen Required
No
Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
No
Pay Rate Type
Salary
FLSA Status
Exempt
Pay Range
$76,500.00 - $95,000.00
The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.
Benefits Eligible
Yes
The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.
Posting Statement
The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University’s Notice of Nondiscrimination.
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Department
Provost Research Computing Center
About the Department
The University of Chicago Research Computing Center (RCC), a unit in the Office of Research, provides high-end research computing resources to researchers at the University of Chicago. It is dedicated to enabling research by providing access to centrally managed High-Performance Computing (HPC), storage, and visualization resources. These resources include hardware, software, high-level scientific and technical user support, and the education and training required to help researchers make full use of modern HPC technology and local and national supercomputing resources. The Office of Research oversees the conduct of sponsored research, research program development, and contract management functions.
Job Summary
The job uses best practices and knowledge of non-technical (not information technology or construction related) projects from conception to completion. Assembles teams and develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports while being the point of contact for those projects.
The Research Computing Center (RCC) is seeking an experienced, hands-on Assistant Director of Project Management to oversee a variety of complex projects, including High Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure initiatives, faculty-supported research projects, and internal RCC efforts. This role ensures RCC meets its deliverables timely and provides high-quality customer service. It focuses on prompt execution, managing procurements, deployments, system rollouts, and ongoing coordination across technical teams and faculty stakeholders. Reporting to the Director of the Research Computing Center, the Assistant Director for Project Management will be a strategic partner responsible for driving all assigned projects to successful completion.
This is a hybrid position requiring at least 3 days per week onsite.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate all aspects of complex projects ranging from research projects to multi-million-dollar equipment acquisitions. Oversee cross-functional project teams to ensure accountability and timely progress.
- Lead project management of HPC and AI systems procurement, installation, and deployment including developing and managing project detailed plans, timelines, milestones and task tracking.
- Coordinate systems engineers, data center teams, university vendors, and external partners to ensure smooth delivery and installation. Track hardware orders, supply chain timelines and installation readiness.
- Establish the use of effective project management tools to maintain strong project frameworks and supportive reporting systems and tools for RCC staff and partners.
- Monitor progress of all RCC projects, anticipate project-related risks, and proactively take the necessary steps to mitigate those risks. Offers solutions and escalates when appropriate.
- Provide regular, structured status updates to RCC leadership and key project stakeholders, and effectively lead recurring status meetings during project implementation. Maintain comprehensive documentation of project status, key decisions, and action items, and prepare formal reports as needed for leadership and stakeholders.
- Strategically assess RCC project pipelines continuously seeking new and/or more effective ways of working. Consistently brings these recommendations to leadership.
- Support and serve as an active participant during audits and annual assessments.
- Cultivate partnerships with faculty and staff to ensure quality service and successful collaborations as well as develop strong business relationships with university vendors.
- Develop staff’s project management skills, and encourage group leads to implement project management best practices and tools, including assisting and encouraging team(s) to meet all deliverables sufficiently and on time.
- Act as a resource for a project team and provides analytical guidance. Interprets complex project issues and provides analytical guidance to a project team.
- Coordinates the successful integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
- Perform other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:
Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 5-7 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Certifications:
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
- Master's degree.
Experience:
- Experience managing projects or programs in an academic or research environment.
- Experience with project management software.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or other project management certification.
- Experience creating reports and documentation.
Preferred Competencies
- Strong organization skills and detail oriented with proven ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities.
- Strong planning skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and deliver results within tight deadlines.
- High degree of project ownership and accountability.
- Ability to communicate effectively with both technical staff and faculty researchers.
- High level of discretion, integrity, professionalism, and interpersonal effectiveness.
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
Application Documents
- C/V or resume (required)
- Cover letter (preferred)
When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.
Job Family
Administration & Management
Role Impact
Individual Contributor
Scheduled Weekly Hours
37.5
Drug Test Required
No
Health Screen Required
No
Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
No
Pay Rate Type
Salary
FLSA Status
Exempt
Pay Range
$76,500.00 - $95,000.00
The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.
Benefits Eligible
Yes
The University of Chicago offers a wide range of benefits programs and resources for eligible employees, including health, retirement, and paid time off. Information about the benefit offerings can be found in the Benefits Guidebook.
Posting Statement
The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University’s Notice of Nondiscrimination.
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Which education employers in Illinois are known to sponsor E-3 visas?
Universities and large educational institutions account for most E-3 sponsorship activity in Illinois. The University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois system, and DePaul University have established international hiring processes and experience filing Labor Condition Applications. Larger K-12 operators and edtech firms headquartered in Chicago also appear in Department of Labor disclosure data as E-3 sponsors, though sponsorship decisions vary by role and department.
Which cities in Illinois have the most education E-3 sponsorship jobs?
Chicago accounts for the overwhelming majority of education E-3 roles in Illinois, driven by its density of research universities, community colleges, and edtech companies. Evanston, home to Northwestern University, is the next most active market. Champaign-Urbana, where the University of Illinois flagship campus is located, also generates meaningful hiring volume, particularly for academic research, curriculum, and instructional technology positions.
What types of education roles typically qualify for E-3 sponsorship in Illinois?
E-3 sponsorship requires the position to qualify as a specialty occupation, meaning it normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field. In Illinois education, roles that commonly meet this standard include instructional designers, curriculum developers, academic advisors with specialized credentials, educational technologists, and research coordinators. General teaching assistant or administrative support roles often do not qualify because the degree requirement is not sufficiently specific to a field.
How do I find education E-3 sponsorship jobs in Illinois?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals seeking E-3 visa sponsorship and lets you filter by visa type, industry, and state, so you can browse education roles in Illinois directly. Because E-3 sponsorship depends on the employer's willingness to file a Labor Condition Application, filtering by verified sponsoring employers saves significant time compared to applying broadly and asking about sponsorship later in the process.
Are there any Illinois-specific considerations for education E-3 sponsorship?
Illinois does not impose additional state-level visa sponsorship requirements beyond federal E-3 rules. However, roles in Illinois public K-12 schools often require state educator licensure, which is a separate credential process from the visa itself and can affect whether a position is offered to international candidates. Private universities and edtech companies in Chicago tend to have more flexible hiring processes for E-3 applicants, as they are not bound by the same public credentialing requirements.
What is the prevailing wage for E-3 education jobs in Illinois?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.
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