Job Title: Administrative and Social Media Specialist
PVN ID: LA-1805-002504
Category: Clerical/Office Services
Location: LAGUARDIA C. C.

Job Description

General Description

The Pre-College Academic Programming Department (www.laguardia.edu/pcap) is seeking a full-time Administrative & Social Media Specialist to support and oversee student communications and related administrative goals for all department programs, specifically the Bridge to College & Careers Program.

The Administrative & Social Media Specialist will play a crucial role in the creation and dissemination of student communications across all social media platforms, along with maintaining a calendar of those communications. Daily work will include a variety of marketing and communications activities including the following: 

  • Provide support with student outreach, communication, and recruitment
  • Oversee the creation and dissemination of student messaging and social media postings
  • Create and implement a social media and communications work plan for PCAP and participate in team meetings as necessary to clarify work plan
  • Update website content, news, events and calendars and maintain mailing lists for each group of recipients
  • Analyze and provide weekly reports on student communications, weekly social media goals, and Facebook usage
  • Publish quarterly newsletters
  • Help facilitate the expansion of PCAP’s social media strategies ad student communication techniques to other ACE departments
  • Manage PCAP/CCPI Schoology Platform including set up, archiving, and posting

Other Duties

Qualifications

  • Qualified candidates will be tech-savy, detail-oriented and have strong writing and communications skills.
  • Candidate must have a two year college degree and at least 1 year of administrative office experience
  • Demonstrated successful experience initiating and managing social media content for work purposes, online courseware, email and/or newsletter apps, and web content in team-based setting
  • Experience using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Constant Contact, WebEx, and Instagram to build community and social networks
  • Demonstrated ability to work as a team player, leading others to implement  effective communication strategies
  • Share the department’s mission of supporting college readiness and success for underserved students

RFCUNY Benefits

RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals

About 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

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
Pre-College Academic Programming
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$31,000.00 - $33,000.00
Closing Date
Jul 15, 2018 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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