Senior Project Associate

Description:

The Senior Projects Associate reports directly to the Senior Director and Director of Systems and Administration of QUALITYstarsNY. QUALITYstarsNY is expanding its work across the state to offer more educational and professional development opportunities to staff in participating early childhood programs. The Senior Projects Associate position is responsible for coordinating and managing the processing of vendor contracts and processing and tracking scholarship awards across multiple funding streams with various internal and external stakeholders. This is a new position on the QUALITYstarsNY team and will require a detail-oriented, organized, creative thinker to develop the role and the work. As a member of the administrative team, the Senior Projects Associate is a key position that helps develop and maintain communication and relationships within the QUALITYstarsNY team, the Institute, and with external vendors.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Contract Management and Monitoring

• Become familiar with all professional development and higher education systems that we are partnering with to ensure policies and procedures are developed and maintained
• Process and track contracts with vendors and business office across multiple funding accounts
• Maintain budget tracking and monitoring system for each contract 
• Report status of assigned budgets to Director of Systems and Administration on a regular basis and collaborate with central office staff to analyze expenditures to inform project planning
• Communicate regularly with partners about necessary paperwork, expectations of the contracting process, timelines, and invoices
• Track and process vendor invoices to ensure timely payment
• Submit and track payment of invoices to college partners for student scholarships
• Communicate regularly with colleagues at the Institute to track the successful completion of college courses and reconcile invoices

Purchasing and Administrative Support

• Receive, place, process, and track purchase and reimbursement requests
• Work with CUNY Central colleagues to manage account reconciliations
• Update or create procedural manuals as needed
• Monitor processes and systems for accuracy and workflow consistency
• Maintain electronic documents, files, and records to provide current and/or historical reference to assist with project management

Other

• Support the coordination of logistics for meetings, events, and conferences
• Support the organization and shipment of resources as requested
• Collaborate with other central office staff to coordinate and streamline processes
• Attend staff meetings and trainings as required
• Perform special projects and other duties as assigned

Physical Requirements

• This position operates in a professional office environment located in Brooklyn, NY, and is currently hybrid, working 70% in the office. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as personal computers, laptops, tablets, smart phone, photocopiers, filing cabinets and other presentation equipment.
• While performing these duties, the employee is required to perform physical activities such as, but not limited to, lifting items (up to 20 pounds), bending, reaching, sitting for prolonged periods of time. Reasonable accommodations will be made for employees with disabilities or other needs per RFCUNY policies.
• Ability to travel to other CUNY sites and QUALITYstarsNY locations as needed.

As of May 27, 2022, all candidates will be required to provide proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID-19 upon commencing employment. Exemption (medical or religious) requests to this requirement will be considered in accordance with applicable law and criteria. Being fully vaccinated is defined for this purpose as two weeks after a final dose in primary series of an authorized COVID-19 vaccine (example: two weeks after the second dose of a two-dose vaccine such as Moderna or Pfizer, or two weeks after a single dose vaccine such as Johnson and Johnson). Final candidates must be fully vaccinated as of their first day of employment.  Newly hired employees will be sent an email with instructions on how to upload their vaccine information on the Research Foundation portal.

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