Careers Job Description
General Description
Through its partnership with the City of New York, CUNY’s Building Performance Laboratory is hiring qualified energy management professionals to serve as on-site consultants and fill critical staffing capacity needs at the Department of Citywide Administrative Services’ Division of Energy Management (“DEM”). For background, DEM serves as the hub for energy management for City government operations. DEM develops the City’s annual utility energy budget; manages the City’s electricity, natural gas, and steam accounts; helps agency partners identify and pursue energy-saving opportunities; oversees energy efficiency and clean power generation projects across the City’s portfolio; and implements operations and maintenance best practices. Specifically, DEM is tasked with leading the City’s efforts to reduce emissions from City government operations 40 percent by 2025, 50 percent by 2030, and 80 percent by 2050 from baseline.
CUNY BPL seeks to hire an Assistant Property Data Analyst to support the property data collection from City agencies and other sources while maintaining the property data in Salesforce environments. This role also supports the compliance process required by Local Law 84 of 2009.
This is a hybrid position working on-site 3 days a week at 1 Centre St, New York, NY 10007. NYC residency may be required for continued employment. Immigration sponsorship is not available through this program.
Other Duties
Under this assignment, the person’s responsibilities may include the following:
- Support the annual Local Law 84 building energy benchmarking process for City buildings.
- Collect and clean property data to ensure accuracy and integrity.
- Identify and resolve data discrepancies proactively.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and respond to internal and external stakeholders.
- Analyze problems, propose potential solutions, and implement the most effective solution.
- Structure large property data sets to extract usable information.
- Work with agency and external teams to support property data analysis, reporting, and measurement for all agency-led initiatives.
- Prepare property-related data and input into Salesforce, in response to agency communications via emails or extracted from external sources.
- Work on formalizing various property maintenance policies.
- Collect and analyze datasets to generate actionable insights.
- Demonstrate the ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Collaborate with various departments using strong interpersonal skills.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
The ideal candidate will bring the following skills and experience to this position:
- A bachelor’s degree is required.
- A minimum of 1-year data management experience is preferred.
- Strong, verifiable experience in data analysis, data visualization, and reporting.
- Flexibility to handle multiple responsibilities and deadlines simultaneously.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team.
- Strong, verifiable understanding of data management best practices.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Thoughtful and curious with a data-driven approach to solving business problems.
- Commitment to delivering measurable results and a proven ability to manage projects to successful completion.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft 365 stack including MS Excel and MS PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with issues pertaining to energy efficiency in existing buildings.
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
DCAS, Division of Energy Management
Full Time
$60,000.00 - $70,000.00
Jan 07, 2025 (Or Until Filled)