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Research Foundation CUNY Community Science Program Coordinator in New York City, New York
Job Title: Community Science Program Coordinator
PVN ID: RC-2503-006758
Category: Administrative Services
Location: CUNY-ADVANCED SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER
Job Description
General Description
The CUNY Advanced Science Research Center
The Advanced Science Research Center(ASRC), part of the City University of New York (CUNY) located on the border of West and Central Harlem, is a state-of-the-art facility that supports research in five increasingly cConnected and critical areas of discovery: nanoscience, photonics, structural biology, neuroscience, and environmental science. The CUNY ASRC opened its doors in 2014 with a mandate to elevate interdisciplinary science and education across CUNY’s 25 campuses in the New York City metro area, including an embedded center for informal STEM learning called the IlluminationSpace.
The Community Sensor Lab
The CUNY ASRC Community Sensor Lab, located at the ASRC, has piloted an open research and education space for do-it-yourself environmental sensing. The Community Sensor Lab was co-developed with ASRC researchers and staff, NYC public school teachers, and community members from two community-based organizations in historically marginalized neighborhoods: Red Hook Initiative, located in Brooklyn, New York, and Sixth Street Community Center, in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Through various summer programs and one-off workshops, the CSL has trained teachers, community members, and undergraduate and high school students, focusing on addressing urgent local environmental justice issues such as air quality and urban flooding. The core programming provides step-by-step teaching instructions on building Arduino-based air quality monitoring systems and designing place-based research projects. Skill development includes electronics, coding, environmental science, analyzing and interpreting data, constructing explanations, designing solutions, and communicating information. The programs are intergenerational and have catered to participants ages 10 to 65.
This position will interface regularly with researchers, students, educators, and community partners. Their primary focus will be to schedule, coordinate, and manage materials and communications for regular community workshops, meetings, and our yearly summer training program. They will also play a role in facilitation and teaching after training, which will require being comfortable engaging and communicating about topics ranging from environmental justice to computer hardware. No prior experience with either is necessary, but a willingness and ability to learn is needed.
Other Duties
Schedule and attend partner meetings
Management of training materials, curriculum, and documentation
Coordinate and schedule community workshops and summer training
Manage lab inventory and materials purchasing
Flyer and event-making for social media and website posting
Assist with administrative tasks
Assist with the facilitation of community workshops and summer training
Assist with maintaining and building new community partnerships
Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Required:
Bachelor's Degree in a STEM field, Education, a Social Science field, or a Sustainability field
Willingness to attend weeknight and weekend meetings
Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills
Demonstrated ability to work with diverse groups/populations
Demonstrated proficiency in project planning and management
Preferred:
Masters degree in STEM, Sustainability or Social Sciences with experience in community engaged science practices
Experience and/or Interests
Community engagement and environmental justice
STEM Education
Experience or willingness to learn Arduino, coding, circuits, sensors, and hardware
Open data, open science, community science, citizen science
Public program development
Group facilitation skills
Community organizing experience
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 Outreach
Status Part Time
Pay Range $30.00-$35.00
Hour(s) a week 15.00-19.00
Closing Date May 13, 2025 (Or Until Filled)
Bargaining Unit No
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