Job Title: Project Manager
PVN ID: BA-2505-006845
Category: Managerial and Professional
Location: BARUCH COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

The Project Manager will provide high-level administrative and logistical support to the co-directors of an ambitious, multi-year public history initiative that includes a national conference in September 2025, an ongoing oral history and archival collection effort, and the launch of five coordinated outdoor exhibitions in July 2026 across New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Washington, D.C.

The Project Manager will play a central role in coordinating the many moving parts of this project with precision, efficiency, and clear communication.

This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a historic, public-facing initiative.

Other Duties

  • Developing and maintaining standard operating procedures to streamline project implementation.
  • Closely monitoring project budgets and expenditures; preparing financial reports and projections.
  • Navigating CUNY’s Research Foundation grants management systems to request and track disbursement of funds.
  • Managing calendars, tracking project timelines, and ensuring that all internal and external deadlines are met.
  • Scheduling meetings, preparing agendas and notes, and following up on action items.
  • Coordinating complex travel arrangements for dozens of conference participants, oral historians, and guest contributors.
  • Organizing in-person and virtual events in collaboration with co-leads and institutional partners.
  • Drafting correspondence, progress reports, and other written materials with clarity and professionalism.
  • Handling confidential information with discretion and integrity.
  • Serving as a liaison between the co-directors and a wide network of collaborators, including curators, designers, archivists, oral historians, community organizers, and photographers.
  • Supporting local site teams with planning and implementation logistics as needed.
  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • Bachelors Degree
  • 5 years + of organizing and/or project management experience, especially within academic or cultural institutions
  • Exceptional organizational, time management, and multitasking skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
  • Familiarity with budgeting and financial oversight
  • Proactive, detail-oriented, and resourceful, with a collaborative spirit and the ability to follow through and work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.

RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Key Features

Department
History
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$75,000.00 - $85,000.00
Closing Date
Jul 09, 2025 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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