Job Information
Research Foundation CUNY Career Specialist in New York City, New York
Job Title: Career Specialist
PVN ID: BX-2501-006670
Category: Managerial and Professional
Location: BRONX C. C.
Job Description
General Description
The Career Specialist is responsible for providing advice, guidance, and support to students seeking internships or part-time or full-time employment within the scope of the assigned industry sectors. In addition, they serves as an interface between NYC employers and BCC students, helping employers to understand the potential of BCC students, referring students to them to meet their workforce needs, and providing the follow-up, support and customer service required to build lasting, positive, trusting partnerships with these employers.
The Career Specialist helps students in their process of career exploration. This includes using online tools such as self-assessments, providing information about jobs, careers, and industries, and supporting students in using the office's primary information and tracking system - Handshake. They help students identify career and educational goals, pursue paid internships, and find and obtain employment, ideally in the student's field of study.
Working with their colleagues, the Career Specialist helps plan and organize workshops for students on Resumes and Cover Letter Writing, Interviewing Skills, Mock Interviews, Job Search Strategies, Networking Skills, etc., along with forums featuring industry representatives and other guest speakers, career fairs, and other special networking events.
Additional duties include helping students to navigate and access BCC support services, tracking students' internship, job and career successes, and other follow-up support to ensure maximum student satisfaction. Also important is the comprehensive gathering and analysis of program data to track student progress and to facilitate program evaluation.
As needed, the Career Specialist will research labor market conditions, industry demands, educational and training opportunities within and beyond CUNY, employment resources, and support services for students. This research will be focused on the particular high-growth industry sectors of the NYC economy or on smaller, more specialized sectors for which BCC has related educational degrees and training programs. The Career Specialist will perform related duties as assigned.
While the primary focus of this position is to address the job and career needs of BCC enrolled students, it is also important to provide guidance and support to students of the BCC (non-credit) Continuing Education programs. This includes adult students that transition from Adult Education courses, such as ESL, to skills training for jobs and careers and support for Continuing Ed students who are interested in enrolling in BCC degree and certificate programs.
Other Duties
Reporting to the Director of the Office of Career Development, the Career Specialist performs comprehensive analytical and administrative duties supporting the daily operational needs and related activities of the career services administered through the Office of Career Development.
The Career Specialist will support BCC's mission to engage internal stakeholders (i.e. faculty, advisory board members, and alumni) with external stakeholders (i.e. the Bronx Chamber of Commerce, the Bronx Department of Labor, and Bronx Workforce One) to increase paid internship and employment opportunities for students with companies and organizations aligned with BCC's academic program offerings.
Additional Responsibilities Include:
Building a comprehensive resource of external professional partnerships based on his/her industry sectors
Developing industry-specific knowledge, thereby becoming "the expert" in his/her assigned sectors
Screening and assessment of possible internship and employment sites in coordination with the Chairs of BCC's sixteen academic programs
Establishing relationships and facilitating consistent communication with employers
Coordinating all existing internship and job placements across the industry-specific programs at BCC to consolidate internship and job data in one place
Meeting with students regularly to assess their needs, discuss their current major, career plan, internship placements and address any issues or concerns
Developing and executing work plans designed to recruit students for program-specific internships and jobs
Creating and leading student workshops that promote career building through industry-specific internships and jobs
Assisting with developing and implementing student leadership opportunities
Maintaining student internship and job data in an online Career Management System (i.e., Handshake) in real-time
In collaboration with the Career Development team, schedule guest speakers to provide industry-based information sessions
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, Career Counseling, Guidance Counseling, or related field of study
Experience and/or knowledge and contacts in a Workforce Industry is a plus
Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Bilingual (Spanish speaking) a plus
Other Qualifications:
Detail-oriented individual with good organizational and time management skills
A team player with creative problem-solving skills, good work ethics, and a commitment to success
Ability to work productively in a fast-paced, time-sensitive, high volume and dynamic student-focused and customer-responsive environment is essential
Proactive and flexible with strong organizational skills
Strong interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively with diverse internal and external stakeholders
Must be customer service oriented
Must be able to work one late evening a week, as well as a half-day, periodically, on a Saturday
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 The Research Foundation of the City University of New York is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Americans with Disabilities Act/E-Verify Employer. It is the policy of the Research Foundation of CUNY to provide equal employment opportunities free of discrimination based on race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, domestic violence victim status, arrest record, criminal conviction history, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
Key Features
Department Office of Career Development
Status Full Time
Annual Salary Range $76,000.00 - $78,000.00
Closing Date Mar 21, 2025 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit No
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