Careers Job Description
General Description
Location: Brooklyn College, CUNY
Regular/Temporary: Regular
POSITION DETAILS:
Responsibilities for the CUNY-HSI Event Coordinator
The CUNY Haitian Studies Institute (HSI), housed in Brooklyn College’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences, seeks an Event Coordinator. The coordinator will assist the associate director in delivering all public-facing activities of the Institute. They will help with planning, delivering, and hosting events that highlight Haitian history, language, and culture, as well as the achievements and contributions of Haiti and the Haitian diaspora. They will help organize symposia focusing on research on Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.
The Event Coordinator participates in all public-facing projects and activities designed to augment HSI's institutional strength and to help it to accomplish its academic and community service mission. S/he will report to the Associate Director.
Brooklyn College serves students from over 150 countries who speak over 100 languages and dialects and thus constitutes a vibrant microcosm of the rich diversity and energy that characterizes the borough of Brooklyn and the greater New York City area itself. Its mission features “a special commitment to educate immigrant and first-generation college students from the diverse communities that make up our city and state.” The college ethos is invested in the educational and eventual career success of all of its students. We are committed to fostering a spirit of camaraderie and shared ideals across the entire spectrum of our varied constituency. By accessing a first-class and affordable college education in an inclusive and nurturing intellectual milieu, our students acquire the skills, confidence, and global mindedness that allow them to thrive in a rapidly changing, unpredictable marketplace of ideas that is increasingly mindless of borders and spans the gamut of cultures and vernaculars.
Other Duties
Qualifications
Qualifications for the CUNY-HSI Event Coordinator
- Master’s degree or equivalent
- Excellent writing and new media skills
- Extensive knowledge about Haiti, Haitians, and the Haitian community in New York and beyond
- Speaks and writes Kreyòl, French, and English
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
Depends on Qualifications
Feb 22, 2022 (Or Until Filled)