Job Title: Data Collection Specialist
PVN ID: BM-2402-006106
Category: Managerial and Professional
Location: BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN C. C.

Job Description

General Description

The Data Collection Specialist will be responsible for the coordination and ensuring the operational success of the Conexiones & Connections program at Borough Manhattan Community College (BMCC).

Reporting to Conexiones & Connections program management the Data Collection Specialist Assists the Director and Assistant Program Coordinator to:

  • Prepare monthly and annual reports on program performance and status
  • Compile and validate data and provide weekly reports
  • Collaborate with team members on data validation, deriving key insights, coordination & task prioritization, and communicate updates about fixes/edits to tools & programs used for collection
  • Research, identify, and collect relevant data and conduct preliminary analysis
  • Report project status, adhere to key timelines and milestones, identify data gaps, and serve as a conduit between operational and technical teams

Other Duties

  • Create structures to align Conexiones program's daily on-site data collection with grant and contract reporting requirements
  • Develop and implement effective data management strategies
  • Utilize data to make recommendations for targeted outreach and invitations and to assess the effectiveness of outreach strategy
  • Assist with case management/tracking systems
  • Develop systems to collect attendance and engagement data reporting purposes
  • Implement workflows responsive to student-reported data
  • Provide supervision to university student staff supporting data collection
  • Coordinate formative and summative assessment processes to evaluate program effectiveness

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in data science or related field
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook)
  • Project management experience
  • Ability to interface with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including senior administrators and staff, faculty, students, and funding agency program officers

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in data science or related field highly preferred
  • Experience working in higher education
  • Strong proficiency in written and spoken Spanish preferred
  • Experience with psychometrics a plus
  • Experience with data visualization a plus

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
Student Affairs
Status
Part Time
Pay Range
$25.00-$30.00
Hour(s) a week
16.00-19.00
Closing Date
Aug 22, 2024 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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