Job Title: Manager, Blackstone Launchpad at Brooklyn College
PVN ID: BK-2106-004081
Category: Managerial and Professional
Location: BROOKLYN COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

Brooklyn College seeks an energetic, creative, entrepreneurially-minded individual to oversee the daily activity of Brooklyn College’s new Blackstone LaunchPad initiative. This venture encourages students across disciples to pursue entrepreneurship as a career, and/or to integrate innovation and entrepreneurial thinking into their chosen career path. The program aims to enhance other relevant campus and CUNY programs, activities, and networks that support the growth of student and alumni generated entrepreneurial efforts.

To this end, this three-year project will:

  • Establish a physical space on the Brooklyn College campus to serve as an intellectual and creative hub to link extant and newly developed entrepreneurial ventures across the College’s five schools
  • Create an online resource that connects, links, and advances relevant resources for the campus community
  • Develop, promote, and implement an ecosystem of ongoing and integrated activities, including – but not limited to – boot camps, hackathons, shark tank contests, speaker series, and short courses

Other Duties

Reporting to the College’s Assistant Dean for Academic Programs, the Program Manager plays a central role in all of these initiatives. The manager will:

  • Oversee the daily activity at the Brooklyn College/ Blackstone LaunchPad Center
  • Develop and maintain an engaging and informative program website and social media platform
  • Conduct comprehensive outreach to students
  • In collaboration with other stakeholders, conceive, design, and administer relevant program activities
  • Monitor, coordinate, and establish meaningful relationships with other entrepreneurial and career development opportunities and ventures on campus and across CUNY
  • Actively engage with and participate in Blackstone’s extensive network of resources and training opportunities
  • Maintain active engagement with and awareness of relevant activities, organizations, and opportunities at the local, regional, and national level
  • Supervise and mentor paid student interns with interest in the field
  • Provide administrative support to the Campus Director, Academic Champions, and Stewardship Council
  • In tandem with other campus resources, provide counseling and coaching to student entrepreneurs
  • Retain accurate records of program engagement

This is a grant-funded, fulltime three-year position.   

Salary (maximum of $58,000 to start) dependent upon qualifications.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

  • Master’s degree preferred
  • Minimum of 5 years’ progressive professional experience
  • Evidence of an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset
  • Detail orientated
  • Excellent technological and communication skills

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in records management

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
Salary
Depends on Qualifications
Closing Date
Aug 28, 2021 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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