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) 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
Learning & Development Project at Silber
Part Time
$93.63-$93.63
4.00-16.00
Dec 31, 2023 (Or Until Filled)