Careers Job Description
General Description
The CUNY Office of Career and Industry Partnerships (OCIP) is dedicated to connecting academic pursuits with career preparation. OCIP works closely with industry and the public/nonprofit sectors to understand the skills required for the most in-demand jobs and trains City University of New York (CUNY) students in those skills to prepare them for early and sustained career success.
New initiatives will recruit undergraduate students from throughout CUNY who haven’t had substantial paid professional experience but who are ambitious, bright, and ready to practice what they are learning in the classroom in the work world.
Interns will have the opportunity to build skills, extend their professional networks, add to their resumes, and support employers throughout NYC in several key industries, such as STEM and healthcare. Employers will benefit from CUNY students’ many talents and knowledge. These exciting new initiatives will be coordinated in CUNY’s Central Office of Academic Affairs and implemented at several CUNY colleges.
CUNY Career Launch and Spring Forward seeks an entrepreneurial, dynamic, and detail-oriented professional to serve as the Senior Manager for Campus and Fiscal Operations.
The Senior Manager for Campus and Fiscal Operations will coordinate and facilitate the relationships between the Central Office and participating college campuses. This person will be in a front-facing role directly involved in program planning and execution.
Four to five college campuses will serve as industry “hubs”. These schools will specialize in internship placements within specific industries. Students will apply to specific hubs and once accepted into the program, apply to jobs within the industry. Each college hub will match students to their designated worksites and manage relationships between the student and employer.
The Senior Manager for Campus and Fiscal Operations position is a critical role on the leadership team. The position involves strategic thinking, program implementation, coordination, and university-wide relationship management.
The Senior Manager for Campus and Fiscal Operations will be an employee of The Research Foundation of CUNY and will report to the Program Director. This is a full-time temporary position until the end of December 2025 with the possibility of an extension.
Other Duties
The Senior Manager for Campus and Fiscal Operations will serve as a strategic and operational bridge between the Central Office, participating CUNY campuses, and CUNY’s K–16 initiatives. This individual will work closely with the leadership team to align program components, ensure efficient implementation, and drive innovation in operations and process improvement.
The Senior Manager’s core areas of responsibility include:
1. Ensuring the alignment of campus and central office operations to meet program outcomes
- Cultivate and maintain collaborative relationship between the Central Office staff, Campus staff and manage the relationships throughout the program
- Facilitate student recruitment coordination with CUNY’s participating and non-participating campuses
- Develop and refine strategies for campus-hub execution of program operations
- Proactively address complex problems and anticipate operational issues
- Monitor, analyze and report data on program implementation and progress
- Support the participating CUNY colleges in program roll-out and execution
- Support the development of processes, policies and tools for efficiency and organization
2. Student & Employer Onboarding & Matching
- Leads logistics of RF payroll onboarding processes
- Coordinate with Central Office Fiscal teams to ensure smooth payroll, budget operations and student onboarding
- Ensures completion of onboarding completions including: student and employer fiscal onboarding training, submission of student fiscal paperwork and student-employer matching completion for payroll
- Monitors student payroll spending
- Creates communication plans for students, employers, CUNY colleges, and other departments pertaining to fiscal and other program operations
3. Organizational Leadership and Compliance
- Prepare for and support internal and external audits
- Develop meeting content and lead operational and strategic meetings as needed
- Participate in senior-level planning and decision-making
- Contribute to the development of materials and strategies for continued program funding
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate will have the following knowledge, skills and abilities:
- A Bachelor’s Degree: an advanced degree in public administration, higher education administration, business, social science discipline is a plus.
- At least three (3) years’ experience in administration of complicated and fast paced programs; professional consulting experience is a plus.
- Outstanding verbal and interpersonal communication skills to work and interact effectively, collaboratively, and cooperatively with a diverse community of students, faculty, staff and external partners.
- Strong computer proficiency using standard office software programs and CRM databases, in particular Microsoft Office and Excel or Google Sheets.
- Experience supervising direct and indirect team members.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and ever-changing work environment.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in workforce development, career services, business development, education or a related non-profit field
- Experience with internal partnership and program coordination as well as process development and program execution.
- Experience working collaboratively in a team-oriented and outcomes-focused environment.
- Experience designing and implementing a new initiative from start-to-finish
- Implementation of a first-time-program
- Experience with an NYC public sector or grant-funded project
- Intermediate to advanced data analysis skills
- Public speaking or group training facilitation experience
Work Environment and Physical Requirements
- Standard work schedule for all staff is 9am-5pm EST Monday - Friday.
- This position currently is a remote (work-from-home) position.
- A laptop and other necessary equipment may be provided to support remote work.
- While performing these duties, the employee may be required to:
- Sit for extended periods
- Use a computer and other office equipment
- Occasionally lift or move items up to 20 pounds
- Reasonable accommodations will be provided to individuals with disabilities or other needs in accordance with RFCUNY policies and applicable laws.
- Ability to travel to other CUNY sites as needed.
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
$85,000.00 - $85,000.00
Oct 11, 2025 (Or Until Filled)