Job Title: Workforce Coordinator
PVN ID: LE-2104-003961
Category: Administrative Services
Location: LEHMAN COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

The fast-growing Workforce Department, within the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Lehman College, is seeking a program coordinator to support our rapid expansion. The Workforce team is dedicated to changing workers’ lives by providing the customized credit and non-credit training they need to advance their careers in Healthcare and other sectors. Contracting with labor unions, employers, hospitals, and community-based organizations requires the department to provide superior customer service and deliver excellent training and student outcomes. You will be joining a nimble team that serves over 300 students annually in over 20 custom programs. Reporting to the Assistant Director, the program coordinator is responsible for the administrative systems and processes that support daily program operations supervising program assistant and front-line staff. The program coordinator also works closely with part-time faculty, as well as the Director.   

You must have a passion for student success, the ability to provide operational excellence in a fast-paced environment and a desire for continuous improvement.

Other Duties

  • Ensure that reporting of essential program outcomes is accurate, timely and actionable (attendance, grades, certifications, etc.)
  • Spearhead technology adoption and training among staff, faculty, and students with high quality results.
  • Create administrative systems to meet programs growing needs, including implementing innovative technologies such as a new student registration system.
  • Act as a liaison between Workforce Program, Continuing Education Program, and CUNY on the Concourse (offsite location) to coordinate program schedules, rooming, inventory, and purchase requests.
  • Support program quality by proactively troubleshooting student and faculty concerns.
  • Oversee operational effectiveness to ensure seamless student experience, such as student/faculty onboarding, orientation, and technical training.
  • Supervise frontline staff and program assistant to deliver superior customer service.
  • Sharing critical information with clients, staff and students.
  • Other duties as assigned by Assistant Director.

Qualifications

 

  • Bachelor’s degree required
  • At least three (3) years of full-time work experience directly related to program administration, preferably in higher education administration or professional learning and development environment.
  • Proven administrative abilities that include:
    • Organizational skills and attention to detail
    • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, demanding, and complex work environment; that involves rapidly adapting to changing situations and priorities
    • Delivering superior customer service and professional communication
  • Advance skills in MS Office 365 including Teams & Excel, Zoom and Dropbox required. Digital curiosity preferred.
  • Must have a passion for helping adults advance their career, experience in continuing education program preferred.
  • Willingness to take advantage of professional development and growth opportunities
  • Schedule flexibility: supervise staff at CUNY on the Concourse in-person 2-3 days a week and work remotely the remainder of the schedule. Occasionally support evening and weekend program starts.

 

 

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
Continuing and Professional Studies
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$45,000.00 - $55,000.00
Closing Date
Jun 07, 2021 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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