Careers Job Description
General Description
The Adult Learning Center (ALC) at Lehman College seeks a dedicated Educational Advisor/Case Manager to support community members in their educational and social needs. The advisor will be based in an ALC Literacy Zone @PS94, Kings College School working with adults with essential resources to support them and their families. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact the lives of underrepresented students and our community significantly.
About ALC:
The Lehman College Adult Learning Center (ALC) is a teacher-led direct-service project of the Institute for Literacy Studies (ILS). Our shared mission—advancing urban education—has profound significance for the schools, colleges, and community-based settings in our home borough of the Bronx. Four interrelated core values inspire and infuse our work: commitments to human capacity, social justice, the power of democratic communities, and transformative work for all persons.
We provide thoughtful, innovative instruction, individualized counseling, and a nurturing environment for learners aged 16 and older. Students enter our program with the hope that the ALC’s essential programs comprising free classes for Adult Basic Education (ABE), High School Equivalency (HSE), and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), including career and college readiness, can provide them with a meaningful pathway toward qualitatively better lives and economic self-sufficiency. Our classes embed adult learning in real-life contexts to ensure everyone who enters our door has the skills to get a foothold and compete in the modern workplace.
Attributes of Lehman’s Adult Learning Center staff members are:
- Experienced advising immigrant and underrepresented students with a strong understanding of student support and academic services in education.
- Informed about trends and issues facing immigrant, low-income, and first-generation college, underrepresented, and disadvantaged students in education.
- Experienced in analyzing problems and identifying solutions as a team.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively with diverse constituencies, including urban students, faculty, and administrators.
Other Duties
As a Literacy Zone Case Manager, you will:
- Empower individual adults and families (approximately 100 per year) to achieve self-sufficiency through intensive coaching (individual and/or small groups) on career, academics, and social services.
- Refer clients to community resources for support (health, finance, employment, education, etc.) and facilitate access to essential services (computer skills, transportation, childcare)
- Track progress and provide ongoing support
- Maintain case notes by documenting client’s goals, outcomes, and goals using the ASISTS database
- Develop relationships and collaborate with local agencies and community organizations to provide clients and students with additional avenues to access resources and programs
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree with relevant experience, Master’s Degree preferred
- Fluent in English and Spanish required
- Proficient in using major software programs for supporting office operations, including word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, publications, mailings, web and internet, email, and document retention and imaging
- Strong interest in adult literacy education or the non-profit sector
- Commitment to and experience with working in a collaborative work environment
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
School of Education - ILS/ALC
Full Time
$50,000.00 - $50,000.00
Oct 18, 2025 (Or Until Filled)