Job Title: CIE and STEM-IN Project Manager
PVN ID: LE-2301-005385
Category: Research
Location: LEHMAN COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

The CIE and STEM-In Project Manager will be responsible for setting targets, deliverables, and timeline for two projects: the CUNY Inclusive Economy (CIE) project at Lehman and the STEM-In project. CIE is an ambitious and transformative project that will take Lehman to the next level in providing clear pathways to careers through our degree programs. Eight new staff members dedicated to advising students and identifying new internship opportunities across four areas (climate resilience, technology, health science, and liberal arts) and across multiple programs housed in four departments are charged with securing new internship positions for 800 students. The CIE Project Manager will be responsible for setting clear targets and timelines, creating new data-gathering mechanisms, and ensuring the timely creation and submission of reports. The STEM-In project supports faculty who will create new instructional materials that support learning and career development in STEM. The Project Manager will support the Dean in collecting artifacts and meeting the reporting timeline required by the funding agency. The Project Manager will report to the Dean of the School of Natural and Social Sciences but will be expected to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders across the college.

Other Duties

For CIE

  • Setting targets, deliverables, and timetables for all required components of the projects.
  • Determining priorities and setting appropriate benchmarks to achieve all priorities.
  • Determining all data, accountability, and reporting needs of the project and infrastructure necessary to meet data collection goals.
  • Overseeing all data collection and ensuring that the data collection deadlines are met.
  • Identifying data collection challenges and working with staff to solve data collection problems.
  • Meeting regularly with each of the sector teams/steering committees and documenting outcomes including any curricular changes implemented by departments.
  • Meeting regularly with faculty and Industry Specialists to build external Advisory Boards (partners) who will help sustain the internship pathways created by the CIE.
  • Meeting regularly with the CIE leadership team and report on the progress of the project.
  • Serving as the general point-person to help students, staff, or faculty solve problems related to the CIE.

For STEM-IN

  • Setting targets, deliverables, and timetables for all required components of the projects.
  • Determining priorities and setting appropriate benchmarks to achieve all priorities.
  • Working the Dean of NSS and the evaluation team of STEM-In to meet all reporting targets.

Qualifications

Core Competencies

  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to use spreadsheets effectively to organize and visualize data
  • Ability to organize workflow, set timetables, and meet deadlines
  • Ability to collaborate and coordinate across multiple units and stakeholders

Qualifications:

  • A Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field of study and 6-10 years of experience in leading a project or in research OR
  • A Master’s degree in an appropriate field of study and 4-6 years of experience leading a project or in research

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
School of Natural and Social Sciences
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$85,000.00 - $90,000.00
Closing Date
Mar 26, 2023 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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