Careers Job Description
General Description
The New York City Labor Market Information Service (NYCLMIS), housed at the Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center promotes upward economic mobility for all through efforts to improve workforce and educational outcomes. We accomplish this through partnering with the organizations and institutions that educate and train the labor force and help people advance in their careers.
We offer our partners data-driven intelligence, materials, and guidance. We are best known for our work on career maps, in-depth industry studies, assessing labor market supply and demand, advising on program alignment with the labor market, and convening workforce and education stakeholders. For more information about us, see our website at http://www/gc.cuny.edu/lmis.
We seek a full-time research associate to provide both research and administrative support for our projects. With supervision and support from project managers and the NYCLMIS director, the research associate will:
- Gather and analyze economic, labor market, labor force, and other data;
- Support data collection efforts, including administering surveys and summarizing their results;
- Illustrate data visualizations;
- Conduct and document interviews and support focus groups;
- Contribute to written project materials, such as research briefs, reports, presentation slides, and summary handouts;
- Work on multiple projects simultaneously;
- Provide general project support; and
- Participate in other research and technical assistance activities, as needed.
Other Duties
Qualifications
- Master's degree and at least 2 years professional experience in a related research/policy role (experience may be substituted for education);
- Intermediate to advanced facility with:
- MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel; and
- At least one statistical analysis application (SPSS, STATA, SAS, R);
- Proficiency with descriptive statistics and data manipulation (e.g., computing and recoding variables, merging files);
- Experience collecting, analyzing and interpreting information using qualitative methods, such as document review and semi-structured interviews;
- Data visualization skills using Excel, Visio, Tableau or similar packages;
- Excellent writing skills, including an ability to write for all types and levels of readers;
- Highly organized. Willing and able to assist with the administrative needs of projects and team;
- Familiarity with – or interest in – labor market data and its applications; and
- Experience working within a client-centered, team- and project-based environment.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout the Research Foundation
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
NYCLMIS/Urban Research
Full Time
$60,000.00
Sep 30, 2018 (Or Until Filled)