Careers Job Description
General Description
About the Tech Talent Pipeline (TTP) Residency at CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College:
The TTP Residency (TTPR) Program at the CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) is a multi-semester program designed to connect 1) qualified tech talent to local employers and 2) competitive computer science majors to internship opportunities. Students receive web development and technical training, professional development workshops, 1:1 coaching, a paid summer internship, and ongoing job search support after their internship. Additionally, the TTP Residency Program gathers valuable feedback from host companies to better align tech education with the workforce needs of NYC employers.
TTP Residency at BMCC is looking to place 40+ students per cohort into paid software development internships.
The Tech Talent Pipeline Residency is a grant funded program.
Primary Duties:
TTP Residency at BMCC is seeking an experienced professional who has established relationships with NYC-based employers who are hiring computer science graduates as software engineer interns and full-time entry-level roles. The Business Development Manager will work with those employers to connect our diverse TTP Residency program participants to tech jobs. Reporting to the Senior Program Manager and working collaboratively with the Technical Career Coach, the Business Development Manager’s essential functions are to:
- Source, contact, and establish relationships with employers willing to offer internships and full-time employment to 40 computer science students as web developers, mobile developers, and software engineers.
- Conduct intake meetings with host companies to agree on qualification criteria for intern and entry-level roles.
- Provide guidance to the Technical Career Coach for preparing candidates to compete and secure internship and employment opportunities.
- Support TTP Residency brand recognition on social media platforms, such as LinkedIn, to attract businesses.
- Work with the Senior Program Manager to strategize and plan ways to keep employers engaged throughout the length of the program.
- Record keeping and reporting of all engagement activities and outcomes.
- Design and lead business development “labs” for students with the goal of guiding those with a demonstrated aptitude for entrepreneurship through the fundamental steps of creating a viable tech or tech-related business.
Other Duties
- Positioning students for gainful employment in tech through partnerships intra and post-program, such as but not limited to:
- Hosting and end-to-end logistics for an in-house (cohort-only) Internship, Job, or Apprenticeship Fair (likely to occur after a student completes their intra-semester internship); potentially cross-campus (cross-TTP-cohorts/campuses) as well
- Hosting and end-to-end logistics for an in-house (cohort-only) Technical Showcase where students can demo their projects (likely after the coding immersive education occurs) or their technical successes in previous internships (likely after a student completes their intra-semester internship) directly to employers or software engineering teams that are actively hiring; potentially cross-campus (cross-TTP-cohorts/campuses) as well
- Partnering with either Hackathon Organizations (MLH, PennApps, HackHarvard, Stony Brook, Cornell, Columbia, etc) via organizers, founders, DevRel/Dev Evangelists or Datathons/Competitions such as the ones hosted by Alteryx or MTA or Kaggle to allow the TTP Residents to participate in a private event for more visibility and direct, meaningful partnership
- Partnering with Break Through Tech, Hack.Diversity, and/or COOP Careers (or similar programs and opportunities) for ‘referral’ or equivalent (where applicable) for qualified and eligible TTP Residents
- Collaborating with employers to modify their existing hiring processes and/or pilot or ‘beta-test’ a newfound, agreed upon approach
- Installing intern-level roles at partnering companies
- Installing entry-level (so, post-intern but pre-junior) roles at partnering companies
- Establishing MOUs (MOAs, if sought for) with partners to substantiate partnerships on-paper in an effort of organization, documentation, and sustainability
- Employing creative approaches to partnerships
- Exploring how Academic Research (paid opportunities) with professors might be connected to improving our student outcomes
- Partnering with companies that specifically recruit ‘non-traditional students’ or ‘students with Associate Degrees’ for their engineering teams
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Must have established networks with tech founders, directors, hiring managers, and/or software engineering managers in the New York BMCC eco-system
- Experience in a business development, agency recruiting, campus recruiting, technical recruiting client services, and marketing
- Strong relationship management experience
- Experience creating systems to keep track of partners and partnership opportunities. Previous experience using sales tracking platforms such as Salesforce or HubSpot is a plus
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Highly motivated self-starter who can take initiative and work independently
Preferred:
- Experience representing and providing support to early entry-level job seekers, undergraduate students, and recent college alumni
- Experience working in one or more of the following roles or departments: Human Resources, People Operations, Recruiter, Technical Recruiter, University Recruiter, Early Careers Recruiter, Talent Acquisition, or Entrepreneur
- Technical aptitude, e.g., some familiarity with at least one coding language or GitHub
- Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s Degree in: Business Administration, Business Management, Marketing, Communications, Finance, Industrial Psychology, Organizational Psychology, IO Psychology, or STEM-related discipline
- Ability to demonstrate understanding of Executive Order NO. 22 (NYC) in regard to The Office of Talent and Workforce Development
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
Computer Information Systems
Full Time
$80,000.00 - $85,000.00
Jun 04, 2025 (Or Until Filled)