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) 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

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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