Job Title: Systems Modeler
PVN ID: PH-2406-006314
Category: Research
Location: CUNY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH & HEALTH POLICY

Job Description

General Description

Duties and Responsibilities: The Systems Modeler will provide support for the Public Health Informatics Computational and Operations Research (PHICOR) team, Artificial Intelligence, Modeling, and Informatics for Nutrition Guidance and Systems (AIMINGS) Center, and the Center for Advanced Technology and Communication in Health (CATCH).  Responsibilities include preforming literature searches, gathering data, helping design, develop, run, and analyze, interpret, and present results/outputs from computational systems models. This will include helping develop models in existing software packages such as TreeAge and Microsoft Excel as well as working with and guiding programmers to develop models. The Modeler should have the ability to understand processes and systems and be able translate these into the design of a computational model and its sets of relationships and inputs and outputs.

Other Duties

Responsibilities also include preparation of reports and manuscripts for publication. For each project, this will involve the following steps: 1) working with the team to develop conceptual model structure and key parameters, 2) writing, testing, and implementing the code to match the specifications, 3) working with the team to run the developed models and tools, and 4) translate model results into a written report or manuscript. 

Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree is required, a master’s degree in relevant field preferred.
  • Candidates should have a basic knowledge of public health practices and principles.
  • Critical thinking skills and comfortable with computers and various types of software. Must have proficiency in MS Office programs.
  • Experience with any modeling software (e.g., TreeAge, Microsoft Excel, Crystal Ball) not required but helpful. Previous programming experience not necessary but can be helpful.
  • Ability to learn new software applications is required.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate and interact effectively in a team environment.
  • Enthusiasm and interest in learning about systems approaches, operations research, and public health.
  • Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education.

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
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$50,000.00 - $75,000.00
Closing Date
Aug 21, 2024 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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