Careers Job Description
General Description
The Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging is CUNY’s aging research and policy center, located at Hunter College. Our work informs both policy and practice in fields that include public health, human services, urban planning, and economic development. Central to our goals is addressing the ways in which advantages and disadvantages accumulate across the course of people’s lives, leading to inequities across socioeconomic levels. Our work specifically centers the experiences and needs of traditionally marginalized older adults such as BIPOC, immigrants, and LGBTQ people. Through this work, we strive to create opportunities for everyone to age as well as anyone can.
General Duties and Responsibilities
Brookdale seeks a skilled policy research associate with excellent writing, speaking, and teamwork skills to work under the general supervision of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging’s Director of Strategic Policy Initiatives. Successful candidates will have experience in all or most of the following areas:
- Conducting research using a variety of sources, including but not limited to peer-reviewed studies, grey literature, and media articles.
- Synthesizing information from secondary sources and interpreting findings.
- Analyzing and interpreting legislation and policy guidance.
- Writing or supporting the production of reports and briefs that include policy recommendations.
- Discussing policy issues with a variety of audiences.
- Serving as a liaison with outside organizations.
- Responding to research and data requests.
- Following prepared texts and written guidelines for interviewing research subjects whenever required.
Other Duties
Core Competencies
- Prior experience in policy, government, advocacy, academia, and other areas of civic engagement. Prior experience with aging issues is desirable, but not required.
- Ability to do online research using search engines, Google Scholar, ProQuest, and similar databases.
- Comfort in conducting interviews on the phone or in person.
- Keen observation and note-taking skills at meetings.
- Skilled at taking direction and work as part of a team as well as independently.
- Ability to complete projects on time and anticipate/report delays.
- Ability to seek assistance when needed.
- Ability to work cooperatively with other researchers.
- Fluency in Spanish is desirable, but not required.
- Knowledge of statistical software or computer programming is desirable, but not required.
Qualifications
Qualifications
- Possession of core competencies and experience with general duties and responsibilities as evidenced through past work, accomplishments, and abilities. This evidence could take the form of a letter of recommendation from someone who can testify to your work, a writing sample, materials from an advocacy campaign in which you played a central role, and more;
- AND at least five years of experience in working in a research and policy environment;
- OR a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and three years of experience;
- OR a Master’s degree or higher from an accredited institution and one year of experience.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout 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
Key Features
Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging
Full Time
Depends on Qualifications
Aug 17, 2021 (Or Until Filled)