Job Description
General Description
Overview of Position
The Curriculum Developer/Facilitator will work under the supervision of the Director of the Community Health Worker Training Program and in collaboration with staff from Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center. The project’s main goal is to identify topics in the current CHW curriculum, which align closely with the apprentices’ daily tasks, and to reinforce and enhance that connection in the curriculum.
Deliverables for this project include: 1) a defined set of topics and areas within the didactic curriculum for further alignment with the on-the-job learning portion of the program, and 2) a fully developed lesson and accompanying materials for one selected topic from the list of areas for further alignment. These will serve as a template and a guide for further curriculum enhancement.
Responsibilities Include
- Familiarization with the current CHW curriculum
- Facilitating three meetings with the selected four CHW supervisors at Bronx Lebanon Hospital to determine curriculum priorities and receive feedback on work products
- Reviewing Bronx Lebanon’s existing Community Health Worker job description
- Examining peer mentors’ support role in the apprenticeship process
- Identifying and delineating curriculum topics for further development
- Selecting one topic and fully developing lesson plans with learning objectives and detailed instructions for teachers
- Soliciting and integrating assessments from CHW faculty
- Projecting additional curriculum development
Other Duties
Qualifications
Required Qualifications/Skills
- BA in a health or education-related discipline
- Excellent organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
- Group facilitation experience
- Curriculum development experience
Preferred Qualifications/Skills
- Experience teaching or developing curriculum for community health workers
- Experience supervising community health workers or experience as a community health worker
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
Division of Adult and Continuing Educati
Part Time
$72.00
3.50
Dec 04, 2019 (Or Until Filled)