Careers Job Description
General Description
The Career Specialist is responsible for providing advice, guidance and support to students seeking internships, or part- or full-time employment. In addition, he/she serves as an interface between NYC employers and BCC students, helping employers to understand the potential of BCC students, referring students to them to meet their workforce needs, and providing the follow-up, support and customer service required to build lasting partnerships with these employers.
The Career Specialist helps students in their process of career exploration. This includes using online tools such as self-assessments, providing information about jobs, careers and industries, and supporting students in using the office's primary information and tracking system - Symplicity. He/she helps students identify career and educational goals, pursue internships, and find and obtain employment, ideally in the student's field of study. Working with his/her colleagues, the Career Specialist helps plan and organize workshops for students on Resumes and Cover Letter Writing, Interviewing Skills, Mock Interviews, Job Search Strategies, Networking Skills, etc., along with forums featuring industry representatives and other guest speakers, industry based career fairs, and other special networking events.
Additional duties include helping students to navigate and access BCC support services, tracking students' internship, job and career successes, and other follow-up support to ensure maximum student satisfaction. Also important is the comprehensive gathering and analysis of program data to track student progress and to facilitate program evaluation.
While the primary focus of this position is to address the job and career needs of BCC enrolled students, it is also important to provide guidance and support to students of the BCC (noncredit) Continuing Education programs. This includes adult students that transition from Adult Education courses, such as ESL, to skills training for jobs and careers, as well as support for Continuing Ed students who are interested in enrolling in BCC degree and certificate programs. The Career Specialist will perform related duties as assigned.
Other Duties
Additional Responsibilities Include:
- Building employer partnerships based on his/her industry sectors
- Developing industry specific knowledge, thereby becoming “the expert” in his/her assigned sectors
- Identifying internship opportunities with the Chairs of the academic departments
- Meeting with students regularly to assess their needs, discuss their majors, career plans, internship placements and addressing any issues or concerns
- Creating and leading student workshops that promote job-readiness
- Maintaining student internship and job data in an online Career Management System (i.e., Symplicity) in real time
- Planning and managing career development events
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience and/or knowledge in industries related to BCC majors is a plus
- Bilingual (Spanish speaking) a plus
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS:
- Detail-oriented individual with good communication, organization, and time management skills
- A team-player with creative problem-solving skills, and a commitment for success
- Ability to work productively in a fast paced, time-sensitive, high volume and dynamic student-focused and customer responsive environment is essential
- Proactive and flexible with strong organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with diverse internal and external stakeholders
- Must be customer service oriented
- Must be able to work one late evening a week, as well as a half day, periodically, on a Saturday
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
The Office of Career Development
Full Time
$53,000.00 - $58,000.00
Jan 24, 2020 (Or Until Filled)