Careers Job Description
General Description
Program Description
CUNY Research Foundation is hiring an IT Director to be responsible for the design, management of development, deployment, and coordination of all ActionNYC program-related information systems. With this goal in mind, ActionNYC will support community-based organizations and legal service providers to conduct targeted outreach, comprehensive immigration legal screenings, navigation, application assistance, and referrals to ancillary services.
Position Description
CUNY Research Foundation is hiring an IT Director to be responsible for the design, management of development, deployment, and coordination of all ActionNYC program-related information systems. The IT Director will work with the Program Manager, Legal Counsel, and IT Field Technician to help execute comprehensive plans for a robust and integrated service delivery system.
Roles and Responsibilities
Job responsibilities for the IT Director include, but are not limited to:
- Prepare and implement detailed project plans for the development and maintenance of ActionNYC program related information systems, and ensure timely delivery of work products;
• Manage vendor application development teams to build, test, and implement all ActionNYC information management systems;
• Test various modules to requirements, including unit testing, system testing, volume testing, and user acceptance testing;
• Design, develop and implement web-based systems;
• Interface with users to develop and clarify functional requirement specifications, programming specifications and other required documentation;
• Demonstrate system features and workflows in trainings to ActionNYC staff and users;
• Coordinate efforts associated with researching and analyzing existing applications and recommending solutions that lead to efficiencies;
Other Duties
- Work closely with the ActionNYC IT Field Technician to ensure proper hardware and network configurations for IT resources;
• Communicate and interface with management;
• Position requires willingness to travel to all 5 boroughs; and
• Ad hoc duties as circumstances warrant.
Qualifications
Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and be comfortable dealing with high-level staff as well as other end-users;
• Should be self-motivated, with exceptional analytical and problem solving skills;
• At least 1-3 years of satisfactory experience in a project leader capacity or as a major contributor on a complex project in data administration, database management systems, data communications systems, capacity planning, and/or web-based application programming;
• Experience in architecting and designing complex and high performance/scalable web applications;
• In-depth and hands-on experience with Microsoft technologies;
• Experience with web services APIs - SOAP and REST-based web service APIs, the Bulk API, and the Metadata API a plus;
• Experience building web-based applications using one of the mainstream programming languages (Java, Perl, Python, PHP, Ruby, etc.) a plus;
• Must have the ability to work independently as well as in a team environment;
• Experience mediating among groups with competing perspectives and trouble-shooting in a fast-paced environment; and
• Highly detail-oriented and committed to rapid execution.
RFCUNY Benefits
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and AccrualsAbout 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
Key Features
CUNY Central - Office of Academic Affair
Full Time
$65,000.00 - $85,000.00
Feb 23, 2016 (Or Until Filled)