Careers 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
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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
Key Features
Part Time
$20.00-$20.00
15.00
Mar 10, 2022 (Or Until Filled)