Careers Job Description
General Description
The CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (SPH) has a rapidly growing research portfolio, and is recruiting for multiple part-time research assistants (10 hours per week), whose work will involve data collection, entry, and analysis, community engagement, and community partner outreach and support. This work will be part of mixed methods project to build community-based organizations’ capacity to foster health literacy in their New York City communities.
The position start date is January 24th 2022 (or mutually agreed upon) and is expected to span an 18-month timeframe. Further extension is dependent on funding availability, performance and research interests aligned with SPH. This can be a partially remote position. The candidate must be based in the metro NYC area and available to come into the field during data collection or as needed.
Other Duties
Specific duties:
- Interview community members and community-based organization personnel
- Administer surveys to community members and community-based organizations personnel
- Data entry, data cleaning, and data coding
- Update data collection dashboards
- Contribute to preliminary data analyses
- Participate in community engagement activities
- Other project-related tasks assigned
Qualifications
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree (or advanced undergraduate student with research experience), Master’s degree (or in progress) in epidemiology, community health, psychology, or similar.
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Attention to detail
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs
- Experience (or coursework) conducting community-based research
- Excellent communication and organization skills
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
Part Time
Depends on Qualifications
Mar 10, 2022 (Or Until Filled)