Program Associate​/Research Scholar

New York University: NYU - NY:
School of Law Location

New York

Aug 24, 2026

NYU School of Law’s Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship seeks a full-time, detail-oriented Program Associate to manage operations and expand its innovative programming, advancing the Center’s mission of using law to drive positive social impact.

This is an exciting opportunity to help NYU Law advance a movement that creates new ways for law and lawyers to drive positive change in the world.

The Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship is the first center of its kind at a law school.

The mission of the Grunin Center is to enhance the community of lawyers and legal institutions purposefully engaged in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development, and to accelerate their effective participation in these fields. The Grunin Center is uniquely positioned to bridge the gaps between legal practitioners, scholars, educators, and law students.

The Center:

• Educates students and lawyers about legal issues in the fields of social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development;
• Leads path-breaking conversations (in person, in social media, and on the page) and provides thought leadership about how legal innovations and new approaches to law, policy, and legal education can advance the fields of social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development;
• Invests in the success of students who are interested in applying their legal skills to the fields of social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development by, among other things, supporting extra-curricular activities, providing research and fellowship opportunities, and awarding scholarships and internships related to these fields; and
• Celebrates the contributions of legal practitioners, scholars, and students to the fields of social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and sustainable development by drawing attention to their contributions and distilling and sharing learnings from those contributions with others working in these fields.

Reporting directly to the Grunin Center’s Executive Director, the Program Associate will work with the Grunin Center’s Executive Director, Faculty Director, staff and fellows in the following key areas:

• Manage operations and administration for our flagship annual conference including booking facilities and catering, marketing, responding to inbound inquiries, sending invitations, managing RSVPs, coordinating with speakers and organizers, writing program materials, ordering supplies, and liaising with NYU departments such as IT and Finance. Also setup and manage Whova, the conference app that the Center uses for this conference.
• Note:
  
  Our annual conference takes up much of the time of the full team from February to June.
• Manage operations and administration for other events such as workshops, symposia and webinars.
• Edit video content from events and post on the Center’s website and You Tube channel.
• Ensure smooth execution of in person events and webinars.

• Conduct monthly tasks including reconciling expenses, processing invoices, processing reimbursement requests, reconciling time sheets and payments to Faculty Director, researchers and fellows, and updating the Executive Director.
• Conduct annual tasks including year-end budget review and managing reimbursements for the annual student trip.

• Communicate with Grunin Center stakeholders including NYU Law faculty, staff, students, student groups, alumni, legal practitioners, and other educators (within NYU generally and from other law schools).
• Create and manage email campaigns via Mail Chimp and professional communications on Linked In.
• Manage and update database of Grunin Center contacts and relationships (currently using Air Table), including titles, organizations, and tags.
• Update and manage the website, Linked In page and You Tube channel; review analytics and update Executive Director on trends.
• Respond to inbound email inquiries about the Grunin Center.
• Create Grunin Center surveys in Qualtrics, promote surveys, track responses and…