Job Title: Policy Research Associate
PVN ID: HC-2104-003974
Category: Research
Location: HUNTER COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

The Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging is CUNY’s aging research and policy center, located at Hunter College. Our work informs both policy and practice in fields that include public health, human services, urban planning, and economic development. Central to our goals is addressing the ways in which advantages and disadvantages accumulate across the course of people’s lives, leading to inequities across socioeconomic levels. Our work specifically centers the experiences and needs of traditionally marginalized older adults such as BIPOC, immigrants, and LGBTQ people. Through this work, we strive to create opportunities for everyone to age as well as anyone can.

 

General Duties and Responsibilities

Brookdale seeks a skilled policy research associate with excellent writing, speaking, and teamwork skills to work under the general supervision of the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging’s Director of Strategic Policy Initiatives. Successful candidates will have experience in all or most of the following areas:

  • Conducting research using a variety of sources, including but not limited to peer-reviewed studies, grey literature, and media articles.
  • Synthesizing information from secondary sources and interpreting findings.
  • Analyzing and interpreting legislation and policy guidance.
  • Writing or supporting the production of reports and briefs that include policy recommendations.
  • Discussing policy issues with a variety of audiences.
  • Serving as a liaison with outside organizations.
  • Responding to research and data requests.
  • Following prepared texts and written guidelines for interviewing research subjects whenever required.

Other Duties

Core Competencies

  • Prior experience in policy, government, advocacy, academia, and other areas of civic engagement. Prior experience with aging issues is desirable, but not required.
  • Ability to do online research using search engines, Google Scholar, ProQuest, and similar databases.
  • Comfort in conducting interviews on the phone or in person.
  • Keen observation and note-taking skills at meetings.
  • Skilled at taking direction and work as part of a team as well as independently.
  • Ability to complete projects on time and anticipate/report delays.
  • Ability to seek assistance when needed.
  • Ability to work cooperatively with other researchers.
  • Fluency in Spanish is desirable, but not required.
  • Knowledge of statistical software or computer programming is desirable, but not required.

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Possession of core competencies and experience with general duties and responsibilities as evidenced through past work, accomplishments, and abilities. This evidence could take the form of a letter of recommendation from someone who can testify to your work, a writing sample, materials from an advocacy campaign in which you played a central role, and more;
  • AND at least five years of experience in working in a research and policy environment;
  • OR a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and three years of experience;
  • OR a Master’s degree or higher from an accredited institution and one year of experience.

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About the Research Foundation

The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).

RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.

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
Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging
Status
Full Time
Salary
Depends on Qualifications
Closing Date
Aug 17, 2021 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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