Job Description
General Description
Job Title: Assistant Director, Peer Enabled Restructured Classroom (PERC) Program
Location: 16 Court Street Brooklyn, NY 11241
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Regular/Temporary: Regular
CUNY K-16 Initiatives work with NYC public schools to increase students’ college access and success, facilitating their transition to post-secondary education and careers. The Peer Enabled Restructured Classroom (PERC) Program is a secondary peer-led instructional model consisting of academic year and summer programming. PERC collaborates with the New York City Department of Education, College Now, the STEM Research Academy and supports ten high schools, including an Early College High School. A unique component of PERC is the recruitment and training of high school students as Teaching Assistant Scholars (TAS), part of the TAS high school to college pipeline.
Reporting to the Director of STEM Initiatives, and exercising independent judgment, the Assistant Director provides leadership and administrative support, supervises the program coordinator, the TAS pipeline, and establishes and implements procedures to achieve the goals and objectives of the program overall. The Assistant Director, in collaboration with the Director of STEM Initiatives, will have primary responsibility for determining the mission and vision of PERC as part of CUNY K-16 Initiatives.
Other Duties
The Assistant Director’s duties include:
- Document, track, analyze and report to school and program leadership on student progress through the TAS Pipeline and teachers’ professional development via data and document collection; site visits, and staff check-ins. Institute and maintain a structure for teacher and student interventions.
- Co-lead strategy meetings regarding TAS pipeline metrics, interventions, and successes and provide support/information for these meetings
- Develop outreach materials and online content for students, teachers, and administrators that supports recruitment and persistence in PERC including the TAS Summer Internship and Academic Year programs.
- Collaborate with TAS Pipeline coordinator to recruit TAS students for academic and summer programs that foster a sense of community and are resource and opportunity rich.
- Support the TAS pipeline coordinator to facilitate outreach to the TAS in the Pipeline with academic year and summer opportunities with College Now and in New York City
- Identify new high school partners with which to implement the PERC model
- Responsible for overall administration of the summer institutes at two PERC high schools. In partnership with the TAS pipeline and PD coordinators:
- Orchestrate recruitment of TAS for summer internship opportunities
- Support new course development for summer institutes
- Work with staff to identify teachers
- Coordinate with College Now and PD staff to provide PD for new courses
- Coordinate classroom observations, work with PD staff to ensure a quality student experience
- Work with evaluation and research team to coordinate form administration and collection
- Ensure that all summer TAS consent/assent forms are collected. Work with summer site coordinators to design procedures and ensure that all school-level student data (grades, attendance, PERC and TAS) are transmitted to the schools and colleges
- Additional duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Preferred qualifications include:
- BA/BS minimum with MA/MS preferred in related field and/or several years of experience working in and/or leading college-readiness programs;
- Proven history of successful programmatic leadership that engages a team of educators;
- Interest and ability to develop partnerships that enable PERC to be a sustainable program for years to come; and
- Commitment to student-centered, peer-led education.
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
CUNY K-16 Initiatives
Full Time
Depends on Qualifications
Mar 31, 2017 (Or Until Filled)