Careers Job Description
General Description
Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE) at Lehman College is a comprehensive program designed to help students complete their academic journey to the bachelor’s degree within two years (transfer) or four years (freshmen). ACE provides a range of financial, academic, and personal support, including intensive academic advisement and career counseling, as well as tuition, textbook, and transportation assistance. Reporting to the ACE Director, the ACE Academic Advisor is responsible for supporting a cohort of roughly 150 students from admission through graduation.
Other Duties
Primary Duties:
- Delivers comprehensive advisement support services to an assigned group of students through degree completion
- Reviews student progress and tracks student use of academic support services
- Supports annual recruitment of new students into the program, including leading information sessions and assisting students through the admissions process
- Develops and facilitates monthly seminars, workshops, and activities on issues of importance to students
- Conducts regular outreach to faculty and other college staff as needed to support student success
- Maintains accurate tracking data and notes for each assigned student, recommending appropriate referrals and opportunity programs
- Organizes periodic special events and programs for students
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Qualifications
Qualification Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience, OR Master’s degree in an appropriate discipline (e.g., guidance counseling, social work, student college personnel or psychology) with a minimum of 2 years of relevant experience
- Strong understanding of the needs of urban, first-generation college students
- Demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- Demonstrated ability to work well with faculty and administrators
- Willingness to work to evenings and weekends as needed
- Strong organization, project management and facilitation skills
- Ability to enter, monitor and interpret student data accurately
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong computer skills, particularly Microsoft Office, and aptitude to learn new systems as needed
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout 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
Key Features
Enrollment Management
Full Time
$60,000.00 - $68,000.00
Aug 27, 2024 (Or Until Filled)