Administrator​/Senior Administrator; Strategic Partnerships Office

Administrator or Senior Administrator

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's (LBNL) Strategic Partnerships Office (SPO) within the Laboratory Directorate is looking for a talented Administrator or Senior Administrator to provide comprehensive administrative support.

Berkeley Lab's Strategic Partnerships Office bridges groundbreaking scientific research with real-world applications by advancing multi-sector collaborations with industry, academia, federal sponsors, and non-profits. In this exciting role, you will serve as the central operational coordinator, handling a broad spectrum of duties in a dynamic, collaborative environment. Reporting directly to the Chief Strategic Partnerships Officer (CSPO), this role is instrumental in facilitating seamless research partnerships, tracking deliverables, managing vendor contracts, coordinating logistics, and supporting compliance across key institutional initiatives.

You will be an essential operational anchor, ensuring efficient administrative workflows, financial and procurement tracking, and seamless customer service across diverse stakeholder groups.

This position has an anticipated start date of December 7, 2026.

We're here for the same mission, to bring science solutions to the world. Join our team and YOU will play a supporting role in our goal to address global challenges! Have a high level of impact and work for an organization associated with 17 Nobel Prizes!

Why join Berkeley Lab?

We invest in our employees by offering a total rewards package you can count on:

• Exceptional health benefits.
• Generous paid time off, sick time off, and holidays.
• A culture where you'll belong - we are invested in our teams!

What You Will Do:

The Administrator will:

• Serve as the central operational point of contact for the CSPO, SPO team members, and client groups.
• Provide coordination and calendar management support to the CSPO, SPO team, and Lab stakeholders including, scheduling meetings, advisory boards, demo days, and conferences.
• Provide travel assistance, onboarding support to new employees, lead property inventories, and serve as timekeeper.
• Assist the CSPO with maintaining and tracking budgets, including working with finance office representatives.
• Support all procurement activities in compliance with the Lab, University of California (UC), Department of Energy (DOE), and federal policy.
• Partner with SPO leaders to manage processes for vendor contracts, including approvals, purchase orders (POs), managing requisitions, and processing invoices.
• Provide updates to the SPO team intranet and external internet sites.
• Update and maintain the dashboard, including preparing standard reports using routine data from Lab systems to populate standardized templates for key reporting deliverables.
• Prepare requested reports and metrics including time-sensitive ad hoc and data calls from DOE, UC, and other sponsors.
• Provide record keeping, including accurately creating, updating and maintaining online records and archives in the SPO and Lab databases.
• Maintain project tracking tools to monitor projects, action items, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Assist and train staff in the use and maintenance of tracking systems, troubleshooting, and resolving issues.
• Manage all office space-related needs, including telephones, IT/digital needs, copier maintenance/repairs, water delivery, transportation, mail, creating and managing facilities/custodial work requests, etc.

In addition to the above, the Senior Administrator will:

• Act as a lead operational liaison for the CSPO and Directorate partners.
• Establish customer service standards, proactively advise leadership on complex administrative challenges, and independently resolve non-routine administrative operational issues.
• Establish training protocols…