Careers Job Description
General Description
CUNY Comprehensive Access to Resources for Essential Services (CUNY CARES) is a pilot program designed to demonstrate and evaluate a new approach to integrated, comprehensive, student- centered health and social services for 30,000 students attending CUNY’s three Bronx campuses: Lehman, Bronx Community, and Hostos Community Colleges. Based on the results of this three year pilot program, successful elements will be extended to all 25 CUNY campuses.
The Position
The Project director will provide overall direction and coordination for CUNY CARES. Located within the CUNY Offices of Student Affairs and co-sponsored by CUNY’s Office of Academic Affairs and Healthy CUNY, a university-wide initiative based at the CUNY School of Public Health, CUNY CARES seeks to link students to health, mental health, food security, housing, and other essential services in order to improve their health and academic success.
Job Responsibilities
The Project Director will be responsible for these tasks:
1. Ensure that campus based services that connect students at the 3 Bronx campuses to CUNY and community resources for food security, health care, mental health, and housing are coordinated, accessible and student-centered.
2. Articulate a vision of and serve as spokesperson for CUNY CARES to all participants and promote its values of equity, well-being, academic success, and student participation.
3. Establish and maintain partnerships with community providers of health care, mental health, food security, and housing assistance.
4. Assist in raising funds for the three year CUNY CARES Demonstration Project.
5. Provide support, guidance, and direction to CUNY staff responsible for delivering campus-based essential services at the Bronx campuses.
6. Ensure that CUNY CARES student health advocates receive the training, support, and supervision needed to effectively connect their peers to essential services.
7. Identify and solve problems in program implementation and expansion.
8. Support CUNY CARES evaluation director in documenting, impact and reach of these services
9. Serve as facilitator of the CUNY CARES Bronx Demonstration Executive Committee
10. Serve as liaison with other CUNY units contributing to CUNY CARES
The CUNY CARES Project Director will be supervised by the CUNY Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs with additional technical support and guidance form the CUNY Dean for Health and Human Services and the faculty director of Healthy CUNY. The position will be based at the CUNY Central Office, but the director will spend considerable time on the Bronx campuses.
Other Duties
Other duties, as assigned by the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Qualifications
Candidates should have a master’s degree in a health or human services, higher education, or a related discipline, strong interpersonal, communications and problem-solving skills, and at least five years’ experience coordinating and managing complex health and human services programs for diverse populations. A knowledge of the CUNY system and experience working in low income, immigrant, Black or Latinx communities is highly desirable.
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
CUNY Office of Student Affairs
Full Time
$90,000.00 - $100,000.00
Oct 05, 2023 (Or Until Filled)