• Social Media Coordinator

    Research Foundation CUNY (New York, NY)


    Job Title: Social Media Coordinator

    PVN ID: CC-2508-006972

    Category: Administrative Services

    Job Description

    General Description

    The Social Media Coordinator will create content (text, graphics, images, video, GIFs) and monitor and manage interactions on the college's official social media profiles. In addition, the Coordinator will write occasional content for email newsletters and may also provide content for the CCNY website.

    Responsibilities

    + Developing and drafting social media content for approval

    + Attending campus events and interviewing, photographing, and videotaping students and others

    + Photography and video: Shooting, editing, and posting to multiple platforms

    + Verifying information with campus colleagues to ensure accuracy before posting

    + Daily monitoring, evaluating, and responding to incoming social media messaging, in collaboration with supervisor

    + Reviewing social media analytics and presenting related recommendations

    + Brainstorming and innovating on social media

    + Developing and drafting occasional newsletter content for approval

    + Developing and drafting occasional website content for approval

    + Other duties as assigned

     

    This is a full-time, one-year position offered by the Research Foundation of CUNY. The person in this position will work consistent business hours, with some flexibility. Work will be a mixture of on-campus and remote, according to CUNY policy and department needs.

    Other Duties

    Please submit the following:

    + Cover letter

    + Resume

    + 4 examples of professional social media work

    + Relevant writing sample

     

    If you have any questions, please send them to: [email protected]

    Qualifications

    + Bachelor's degree required

    + A strong, strategic writer with several years' previous social media experience representing a brand or institution

    + Must be proficient and keep up to date with trends and functionality on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other platforms; must have interest in learning new social media platforms and digital tools

    + Experience with video editing, photo editing, and graphics skills and software

    + Demonstrated ability to think analytically and apply professional discernment

    + Research skills, integrity, accuracy, and editorial judgment

    + Comfortable with a quick pace

    + Background in journalism or PR is useful

     

    RFCUNY Benefits RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals (https://www.rfcuny.org/rfwebsite/media/0zrcgdyw/rfcuny-benefits-at-a-glance-ft-2025-project-employee.pdf)

    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 Development Office

     

    Status Full Time

     

    Annual Salary Range $78,000.00 - $85,000.00

     

    Closing Date Oct 13, 2025 (Or Until Filled)

     

    Bargaining Unit No

     

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