Careers Job Description
General Description
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY seeks a Career Coach for the TTP Residency program. We are looking for an individual who is personable, efficient, and has the drive to help our students reach their first job career goals. The focus of the role is to provide support to TTP Residents (25 students per internship class cohort, but cumulative over several cohorts). You will be able to gain knowledge of interns through every phase of the TTP Residency.
About the TTP Residency@ John Jay College
The TTP Residency @ John Jay College is a semester-long program designed to deliver qualified tech talent to local employers and short-term professional opportunities to competitive NYC undergraduates.
A partnership between the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline and John Jay College, TTP Residency @ John Jay College gathers valuable feedback from host businesses to better align tech education with the workforce needs of NYC employers.
Other Duties
Duties Include:
- Provide direct support (1:1 coaching) to current students, and all alumni from previous cohorts, by supporting their connection to full employment and internship opportunities;
- Manage relationships with NYC-based employers and support the sourcing of technical internship opportunities for the program’s cohorts
- Build a growing roster of internships and full-time employment opportunities for program graduates as web developers and software engineers.
- Review student portfolios, resumes, LinkedIn, and GitHub profiles to gauge employment readiness
- Conduct 1:1 Mock Interviewing (behavioral and technical)
- Recruit volunteers and mentors to participate in employer-friendly programs activities
- Connect students to informational interviews with industry volunteers and mentors
- Deliver professional and soft skills workshops before, during and after the program, and support the Faculty Advisor in delivering workshops on topics including technical resume writing and technical interviewing
- Develop students’ overall professional skills, as well as coach them toward specific job opportunities;
- Proactively engage industry professionals to support the NYC TTP Residency program and its job placement goals
- Build a student assessment database, which will be used to assess students’ professional skills, technical skills and job search preparedness at several points throughout the semester — at minimum successful program execution shall require an initial, mid-point, and final assessment during the program period
- Provide regular updates on student technical and professional assessments
- Support all students who complete the program up to 6 months after program completion or graduation. Connect and match students to opportunities sourced by the College or TTP
- Use various online resources to gauge students programming experience and skill (hacker challenges)
- Design and compile a student career directory (listing employers and student reviews á la Glassdoor) to be located in the campus-based Career Services Department (CSD)
Qualifications
Required Competencies:
- 3-5 Years Experience working in the tech sector
- Coaching / Management Experience
- Experience dealing with undergraduate students and recent alumni
- Comfortable with employer outreach business development and partnership building
- Understanding of the tech ecosystem Scene, as understood broadly (e.g., jobs, careers, companies, meetups, fairs, networks)
- Comfort with coaching CS students on both tech skill and behavioral interview skills
Preferred:
- Education background in Psychology, Counseling or relevant field
- Experience working at a tech bootcamp
- Experience working at a College Institution (full or part time)
- Experience working on Grants (MOUs, proposals, data collection)
- Computer Science Student / Major
- At least a working knowledge of one coding language, preferably JavaScript.
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
Full Time
$65,000.00 - $75,000.00
Jun 30, 2020 (Or Until Filled)