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Job Title: Community Science Program Coordinator

PVN ID: RC-2503-006758

Category: Administrative Services

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)

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