Job Description
General Description
Category: Assistant
Location: Queens College, CUNY GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The individual is to serve as Assistant for the Queens College Blackstone LaunchPad Entrepreneurship Center. This will require serving as the primary point of contact for the center on a number of projects.
Queens College enjoys a national reputation for its liberal arts and sciences and preprofessional programs. With its extensive range of graduate and undergraduate degrees, honors programs, research opportunities, and internship placements, the college serves more than 20,000 students. In collaboration with Blackstone, one of the world’s leading investment firms headquartered in New York, Queens College has set up the Blackstone LaunchPad program to support student ventures by helping with entrepreneurial skill-building so students can succeed in any career they choose.
The Assistant to Queens College Blackstone LaunchPad Entrepreneurship Center will assist in organizing and scheduling events, coordinating the schedule with the diverse set of users and stakeholders, updating the website and platform for the program, handling administrative tasks and marketing.
Preference will be given to a candidate with superior communication skills, both written and verbal, a customer service mindset, an ability to meet deadlines, and the capacity to think creatively to help all stakeholders achieve their goals.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
• Organizing and scheduling events, conferences, workshops, bootcamps and other entrepreneurship and skill-building programming for students
• Coordinating with the diverse set of users and stakeholders.
• Contribute to Annual Reports.
• Update the website and platform for the program
• Performing administrative tasks.
• Marketing: building out unique campaigns and implementing them on social media and in public spaces.
• Assisting with a newsletter, expanding our connections and our reach within communities and small business networks.
QUALIFICATION:
The successful candidate will have the following knowledge, skills, and abilities:
• Customer service mindset
• Ability to operate in a multitask environment
• Prioritization and problem-solving skills
• Performs highly among key attributes of individual resilience: positive, proactive, focused, flexible, organized.
• Strong verbal and interpersonal communication skills to work and interact effectively, collaboratively, and cooperatively with a diverse community of students, faculty, staff, and external constituents in a large organization.
• Detail-oriented and organized with the ability to manage multiple assignments and meet deadlines
• Strong computer proficiency using standard office software programs, in particular Microsoft Office
EEO
We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by actively encouraging people of any race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, disability, age, or protected veteran status to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion. CUNY is an EEO/AA Employer.
Department
Center for Career Engagement and Internship
Status Part-time
Annual Salary
$14,400 (up to 15 hours per week for 48 weeks, $20 per hours)
Contact: Luc Marest, Campus Director Blackstone LaunchPad at luc.marest@qc.cuny.edu
Queens College of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/American with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer
Other Duties
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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
Part Time
$20.00-$20.00
15.00
Mar 10, 2022 (Or Until Filled)