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The Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center is immediately seeking to hire a part-time Project Manager for a new exciting project, The NYC Climate Justice Hub. We are looking for a highly organized, strategic thinker for a new exciting role as Project Manager for the NYC Climate Justice Hub. Particularly looking for individuals with experience in developing
project strategy as well as building and tracking workplans for teams.
Application deadline: Thank you for applying, but applications for this position are now closed.
Hours: 20 hours a week. This is a hybrid position located in the CUNY Graduate Center. Frequent travel within NYC and attendance at meetings, events, and coworking sessions will be required for this position.
Reports to: Kendra Sullivan, Director, Center for the Humanities
To apply: Thank you for applying, but applications for this position are now closed. Please submit a resume and a cover letter to [email protected] delineating relevant experience in grassroot environmental justice, and contact information for three (3) professional references (name, title, organization, phone number, and email). We will call them only if you are a finalist.
Eligibility: Applicants with ties to CUNY and/or ties to climate justice advocacy on the ground in New York City are encouraged to apply.
Compensation and Benefits:
Part time/hourly: $50 per hour (20 hours a week; 1040 hours a year) + benefits including health insurance, direct pay, and waiver plans.
About the project:
The NYC Climate Justice Hub is a learning partnership between the City University of New York and NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA), funded by the Waverley Street Foundation. Its aim is to accelerate climate justice by expanding environmental research, policy analysis, and advocacy resources at CUNY to serve the NYC communities most overburdened by climate and environmental risks. The project will support new research, expanded curriculum, public engagement, and student and faculty fellowships at the GC and across CUNY.
Overview of role:
The part-time project manager will work closely with a dynamic team of activists, scholars, and community-based organization leaders from across the CUNY and NYC-EJA to plan, staff, and in some cases implement activities associated with the NYC Climate Justice Hub project lifecycle. The project manager will work with the project team to advance project strategy, mapping, and design; worksteam development and implementation; establish and support reporting and assessment systems; and help plan next steps. This position is envisioned as a high-level strategist, working closely with the support of team leadership to identify key resources and workstreams, set up systems, identify and address pain points, and assign roles.
Key duties and responsibilities:
Determine and define project scope and objectives, ensuring they remain in alignment with the overall mission and vision of the project.
Develop and manage a detailed project schedule and work plan.
Set up a clear accountability structure to manage expectations for tasks and deliverables across teams, providing all proper materials and documentation when necessary.
Establish consensus around a project contract that determines and upholds communications, decision-making, accountability, and community agreements.
Work collaboratively to develop objectives, work plans, and plan the logistics of the Climate Justice Summer Academy and fellowship program, including recruiting 30 students per year for the program.
Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress.
Work collaboratively to design, launch, and staff the participatory budget project.
Identify and report any project risks or dependencies that may occur throughout the project lifecycle and escalate issues appropriately.
Identify opportunities to amplify project impacts and work with the team to develop a plan to incorporate the opportunities into the project.
Predict resources needed to reach objectives and manage resources in an effective and efficient manner and appropriately align resources against project needs, including mapping forecasting of hours/projections for projects.
Develop strong relationships with team members across CUNY as well as NYC-EJA and WSF.
Facilitate and coordinate regular meetings between CUNY and NYC-EJA stakeholders.
Develop a strong understanding of the CUNY system as well as NYC-EJA’s member groups and campaigns and the environmental justice issues they address.
Assist in the development and implementation of a multilayered branding, visual identity, storytelling, and engagement plan.
Work with CUNY and NYC-EJA teams to develop an evaluation plan for the project.
Produce an end of project report to evaluate the first phase of the project.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
CUNY encourages people with disabilities, minorities, veterans and women to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are also included among our protected groups. Applicants and employees will not be discriminated against on the basis of any legally protected category, including sexual orientation or gender identity. EEO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer.
