Careers Job Description
General Description
About Guttman Community College
Stella and Charles Guttman Community College is CUNY’s first new community college in over four decades. The College officially opened its doors in midtown Manhattan, overlooking Bryant Park, in August 2012. Created to deliver a community college education with a focus on student achievement and timely completion, Guttman has been ranked the #1 community college in New York State. The College’s high graduation rate (43% three-year graduation rate for the 2015 entering cohort) testifies to the success of its innovative academic model and to the dedication of its faculty and staff to student success.
Other Duties
Career Innovation Hub
To fulfill the College’s strategic goals and to further its evolving mission, Guttman is creating the Career Innovation Hub (CIH). The CIH will build on our current academic programs and develop deeper industry partnerships through credit-bearing and non-credit-bearing certificate programs and course offerings while introducing part-time attendance for Adult/Continuing Education students.
The CIH will operate under the auspices of the Division of Academic Affairs’ Center for Career Preparation and Partnerships (CCPP), which offers integrated career navigation support based on the NACE competencies referred to in the Guttman Learning Outcomes and within Guttman’s Programs of Study. The CCPP works to build relevant and impactful industry partners to support meaningful career-focused experiential learning. The CIH will benefit from the academic foundation of programs and course offerings grounded in current academic program expertise and aligned with guided pathways.
Qualifications
Essential Functions
- Assist in developing and implementing career pathway programs.
- Build a network of employer partners in key industry sectors to help inform curriculum.
- Coordinate and track recruitment of nontraditional learners.
- Manage internship placement sites, employer relations, and liaison activities.
- Assist faculty in identifying existing curricula that could be modularized for non-credit offerings.
- Identify and evaluate external courses and/or complementary industry-recognized credentials.
- Assist in developing a strategy to embed stackable credentials into curriculum and create non-credit to credit pathways.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Excellent presentation skills and professional written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong technical skills, including Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.
- Client-centered approach to supporting all partners, including employers, workforce and education professionals, faculty, and students
- Experience with processes and systems that require attention to detail.
- Able to work independently in a fast-paced, complex environment.
- Superior problem-solving skills.
- Must have a passion for helping nontraditional adults advance their career.
- Willingness to take advantage of professional development and growth opportunities.
- Experience in project management and workforce development or adult education preferred.
Job type: Full-time
Schedule: Monday to Friday remote
Salary: $55,000 - Research Foundation of CUNY
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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
$55,000.00 - $55,000.00
Aug 07, 2022 (Or Until Filled)