Job Title: College Access and Success Manager, ECI-Affinity
PVN ID: VA-2111-004410
Category: Administrative Services
Location: OFFICE OF SR. UNIV DEAN FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Job Description

General Description

 

MISSION

CUNY’s Office of K-16 Initiatives creates innovative pathways for young New Yorkers to envision and achieve success by engaging strategic partners in confronting systemic educational inequities. 

 

GENERAL DESCRIPTION 

The City University of New York's Office of K-16 Initiatives seeks a College Access and Success Manager to work on the Early College Initiatives-Affinity team. ECI-Affinity creates, grows, and supports schools committed to early college programs and college readiness outcomes for students who are traditionally underrepresented in higher education. Through the coaching and development of teachers, leaders, and other partners we are restructuring the educational experience to ensure all students are prepared for success in college and their chosen career path. The College Access and Success Manager will work closely with ECI-Affinity, receiving colleges, and various partners to implement best practices and decrease challenges that may impede college success and degree completion.

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Counselor relations and training:

  • Design professional learning opportunities for counselors, teachers and other staff about college access, success and planning.
  • Create networking opportunities for school-based staff and CUNY admissions officers.
  • Use qualitative and quantitative data to define what college and career counseling looks like in ECI-Affinity schools.

Student supports and events:

  • Use near-peer and alumni networks to build a sense of community for ECI-Affinity students, both past and present.
  • Design college access events for ECI-Affinity students.
  • Use student enrollment and matriculation data to help determine program success rates and areas of improvement.

Other Duties

 

  • Active engagement with local, state and national college access networks.
  • Continuous learning of new research in the college access field.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications 

  • Bachelor’s degree and eight years related experience required
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a diverse community of students, faculty, staff, and external partners
  • Excellent writing, presentation, and group facilitation skills
  • Experience coordinating college access events for professional staff
  • Experience with data collection and analysis to support effective program evaluation



Physical Demands and Environment Requirements 

  • Ability to travel to other CUNY sites as needed.

 

EEO Info 

We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people of all race, color, religion, gender, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disabilities, age, or protected veteran status to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion.  CUNY is an EEO/AA Employer.



How To Apply 

Position open until filled.

 

To Apply: Cover letter and resume in application for this position must be submitted via the CUNY Research Foundation website at www.rfcuny.org. 

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
CUNY's Office of K-16 Initiatives
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$88,000.00 - $93,000.00
Closing Date
Jan 24, 2022 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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