Careers Job Description
General Description
CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance (ISLG): About Us
The CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance has a mission to improve the financing, delivery, and measurement of critical public services through research, technical assistance, and education. We lead projects aimed at reforming the criminal justice system, measuring urban inequality, expanding the reach of social service providers, and more. Each project has a dedicated team of research and policy experts who collaborate closely with internal and external organizations. For more information about ISLG, please visit www.islg.cuny.edu.
Our Goals for Diversity and Inclusion
We strive to foster an office environment and an approach to work that welcomes and respects different perspectives, backgrounds, and life experiences. We are working towards our goal of recruiting and retaining staff, interns and advisory group members who are diverse in terms of race, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, religion, veteran status, socioeconomic status, disability, and justice system involvement.
Who we are looking for
ISLG is recruiting multiple undergraduate and/or graduate student interns to work on a variety of projects, spanning a range of policy areas, including:
- Police reform - supporting the implementation of a community engagement strategy which seeks to collect and disseminate experiences of racialized policing across New York City communities. This work involves leveraging the voices of people most impacted by racialized policing, particularly those with lived experiences, to understand experiences and impacts of racialized policing and identify approaches to address past, present and future harms. This will include collecting narratives from those impacted by racialized policing to highlight, memorialize and honor the voices of those impacted and affected by these harms.
- Restorative justice - designing a procurement process to identify community groups interested in applying for funding to implement restorative justice practices in their work.
- Recruitment and retention of people of color in clinical professions - exploring the reasons for the underrepresentation of people of color within these professions and making recommendations on ways to increase representation.
- Gender-based-violence - supporting a New York State-wide training and technical assistance (TTA) program through the provision of programmatic, strategic, and/or operational TTA to providers who offer crime victim services. A second project involves understanding and documenting the experiences of justice impacted survivors of gender-based-violence. This work entails partnering with colleagues, city stakeholders and a working group of survivor experts, in soliciting learnings and recommendations from the field and developing recommendations for city government.
- Education and leadership - developing materials used to support elected officials and their chiefs of staff who participate in the Lindsay and Kriegel fellowship programs.
- Criminal legal system reform/community investment – supporting the early implementation of a community-based social service navigator program focused on services for the unhoused, and supporting communications related to a variety of community investment projects funded by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and managed by ISLG.
We are hiring interns to work at ISLG during the summer months. Interns will report to a Program Director or a Senior Policy Associate, and will work on a range of tasks within the projects listed above as well as others not listed here. Interns may work on one or more of the project areas above, as well as other projects. Tasks that the interns may be responsible for include:
- Taking notes at focus groups and interviews
- Writing literature reviews and content for ISLG’s fellowship programs and other projects
- Providing coordination support for scheduling focus groups, interviews and other meetings
- Assisting in the preparation of materials for meetings, policy briefs, blogs and other communications
- Other tasks as needed to support ISLG’s work
Other Duties
Qualifications
We would love to hear from you, if you are/have:
- Currently enrolled in a degree program at a CUNY school or graduated from such a program within the last year
- Personal, professional, or academic knowledge of any of the following fields: gender based violence, police reform, peer leadership development, restorative justice, community engagement, youth development, and violence intervention
- Excellent time management skills and experience working in deadline-driven environments
- Ability to write and present in an articulate, structured, and compelling manner
- Ability to prioritize and work on a number of tasks simultaneously
- Ability to commit to a consistent schedule of approximately 35 hours per week for the internship period (i.e., June 1 – mid-August)
- Flexibility about projects and workflow
- Passion about equitable state and local policy solutions to pressing social issues
- Experience in participatory action research and/or other community engagement approaches a plus
- Fluency in a language other than English is a plus
ISLG is open to flexibility on the requirements above, but we would expect candidates to fit most of the items described.
How to Apply
To apply you will need to include a cover letter describing your qualifications and interests and attach your curriculum vitae. Additionally, we ask that candidates submit the following materials:
- ISLG’s Internship Program application form (which will be emailed to all candidates).
- A cover letter that includes your area(s) of interest, how you hope to contribute to ISLG’s mission, and your proposed start and end dates and work schedule. (1 page limit)
- A resume or curriculum vitae. (1 page limit)
- The contact information for 2 references (preferably professors or former supervisors of employment relating to the work of ISLG).
- An academic or professional writing sample. (3 page limit)
- Unofficial transcripts.
All additional application documents must be in English and submitted in a single PDF to info@islg.cuny.edu by the deadline listed below. Please use the subject line “Summer Student Internship Application.” Incomplete application packets will not be considered.
Application review will commence on May 29, 2023 and continue until the positions are filled.
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.
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Key Features
CUNY Institute for State & Local Governa
Full Time
$20.00-$25.00
Feb 06, 2024 (Or Until Filled)