Job Title: Academic/Career Advisor
PVN ID: HC-2411-006588
Category: Instruction and Social Service
Location: HUNTER COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

Hunter College and the Office of Careers & Industry Partnerships (OCIP) at the City University of New York seeks Academic Career Advisors to create career pathways and expand employment opportunities for students in New York’s emerging industries.

You will work with Industry Specialists to support a cohort of undergraduate students, connecting them with relevant internship or full-time opportunities in business, finance and market research positions across a variety of industry sectors from finance and banking and economic consulting to healthcare organizations and government agencies. Outstanding careers for Economics majors include job titles such as financial analyst, economic consultant, data analyst, actuary and market research analyst.

Build a Community:

  • Provide both group and 1:1 activity designed to help students identify career goals, academic courses, and goal-oriented career opportunities
  • Develop your cohort’s identity as a peer network
  • Help students plan for internships and other opportunities to build their experience in and exposure to workplaces
  • Assess students’ professional abilities and development at several points throughout the cohort.

Establish a Peer Network:

  • Participate in CUNY-wide professional development and mentoring
  • Collaborate between academic/career advisors and academic departments on insights from employers that might influence curricula and individual student progress.

Create Pathways:

  • Identify barriers to student success within areas of study related to career goals
  • Share information on student needs and connect them to supportive services and campus resources
  • Expand student exposure to careers and the courses needed to prepare for them
  • Coordinate programs to enhance job-seeking skills.

Portfolio Management:

  • Create plans for your cohort’s structure of programs, assessments, advising and referral activities
  • Track progress, challenges and outcomes using state-of-the-art technology to measure success and make adjustments in real-time

Other Duties

  • Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

A baccalaureate degree is required.

We seek motivated, flexible and resourceful people who can gain the confidence of others in an advising environment and execute successful programs. You may have skills or experience including:

  • Coursework or training related to adult development, including career development
  • Academic or career advising and/or coaching
  • Providing job-related services and adult basic skills training
  • Understanding of academic programs, majors, and methods to assure students’ successful progress
  • Understanding the needs and practices of employers in recruitment and selection
  • Comfort with technology to track programs and projects.

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
Economics
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$81,712.00 - $86,188.00
Closing Date
Jan 25, 2025 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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