Careers Job Description
General Description
Professionals come to Learning & Development Projects at the Silberman School of Social Work to keep pace with complex and rapidly changing fields. Our professional development and training programs focus on developing core skills. We blend traditional classroom instruction with distance learning technologies, and aim to instill a sense of confidence in learners by giving them tools to meet the challenges of their professional lives. With decades of experience in adult learning and professional development, we excel at working with individuals and organizations to create customized programs and events.
For more than 25 years, we have partnered with government to provide opportunities for frontline service providers, supervisors and managers to become more skilled, confident and effective on the job. The result: work that is more rewarding and is more beneficial to the individuals being served. Social workers, caseworkers, care managers, legal guardians, home health aides and others employed in helping professions come to us to keep pace with complex and rapidly changing fields and to expand and sharpen their skills.
Other Duties
Our professional development offerings are designed to encourage and assist individuals and entire agencies, both public and private, in achieving their specific performance goals and goals for their clients.
Learning & Development Projects is seeking highly motivated socially engaged part-time trainers. We are looking for trainers who have demonstrated expertise in a variety of relational topics, supervision and leadership to meet the needs of individuals who are new to their roles, job positions and responsibilities as well as seasoned professionals. Courses and training modules vary in duration with the goal to transfer knowledge and teach practical skills that people can use immediately in their daily work.
Qualifications
Qualified applicants must have a minimum of five years of experience providing training and professional development to people who work in social services or human service. Must have demonstrated experience and expertise in providing traditional classroom training, distance learning and blended learning.
Some travel may be necessary
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout 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
Key Features
Learning & Development Project at Silber
Part Time
$93.63-$93.63
4.00-16.00
Dec 31, 2023 (Or Until Filled)