Job Title: STEM Academy Coordinator
PVN ID: QC-2301-005352
Category: Managerial and Professional
Location: QUEENS COLLEGE

Job Description

General Description

Queens College (QC) and Laguardia Community College (LGCC) serve a population that is significantly Hispanic and overwhelming minority, low-income, and first generation. Through Queens STEM Academy (Q-STEM), these CUNY partners will build inclusive learning communities resulting in more STEM degrees by improving STEM learning and supporting Hispanic and low-income students from admission to transfer. QC is seeking a STEM Academy Coordinator to help with the implementation of the Q-STEM grant, a five-year project between QC and LGCC. Reporting to the Associate Provost for Innovation and Student Success at QC, the coordinator with the LGCC Provost’s Office. This project has several guiding pathways to support students' success including: 

STEM Learning. Launch a learning community cohort model, Summer STEM Academy, accessible course materials, research symposia, and Virtual Interest Groups.  

STEM Link. LaGuardia and Queens College will forge 5 STEM articulation agreements, implement joint degree programs, and facilitate faculty exchange and shared transfer advisement. Creating transfer partnerships and scaffolding transfer support, LaGuardia will connect students with faculty and peer mentors at Queens College while building bridges to successful STEM careers. 

Additional information about the grant can be found here: https://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2022/03/21/queens-stem-academy-launched-by-laguardia-community-college-and-queens-college-to-increase-hispanic-low-income-and-other-under-represented-minorities-in-high-demand-stem-fields/ 

Other Duties

Coordinating will be responsible for the following but not limited to: 

  • Develop and update transfer credit equivalence 
  • Creation of 2+2-degree mapping between LGCC and QC 
  • Attend LGCC admission and welcome fairs for the Q-STEM program 
  • Work with LGCC to identify QC peer mentors to patriciate in Virtual Interest Groups (VIG).  
  • Work closely with faculty to facilitate research opportunities on the QC campus for LGCC students 
  • Coordinating Queens College event and activities around the Q-STEM Grant including 
  • VIGs such as STEM seminars  
  • Admissions event both at LGCC and QC 
  • Manage the recruitment of faculty and student in the creation of the VIG community. Encourage participants to exchange ideas, ask questions, and obtain advice about their particular discipline, thus fostering a sense of community that drop-in transfer centers or typical one-shot transfer fairs and events have been unable to create. 
  • Biweekly meeting with the Project Director  
  • Grant management for several grants under the Associate Provost including hiring, time sheets and procurement 
  • Other duties as assigned  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications 

  • Bachelor’s Degree 
  • 1-2 years’ experience in Higher Education or Project Management  

Desired/Preferred Qualifications 

  • Experience or knowledge of the transfer process 
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team 
  • Familiar with Zoom, Microsoft Office, Peoplesoft 

 

Please upload a single PDF with a cover letter and CV or Resume to the RF Careers page.

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Holtzman at nholtzman@qc.cuny.edu

 

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

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Key Features

Department
Office of the Associate Provost
Status
Full Time
Annual Salary Range
$55,000.00 - $60,000.00
Closing Date
Mar 12, 2023 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit
No

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