Children need to spend their most critical years with dedicated, educated, trained, and well-compensated individuals in order to thrive. The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute leads the work to establish and implement an early childhood workforce system to ensure funding, standards and competencies, career development resources, qualifications and credentials, professional development (training and strengths-based coaching), and program quality assurance and improvement for individuals who work with young children throughout New York. Housed at the City University of New York, the Institute is a fast-paced, dynamic public/private partnership that is committed to the early childhood workforce across New York State.
The Institute is the implementing agency for QUALITYstarsNY. QUALITYstarsNY is New York's early childhood quality rating and improvement system. Since its inception, QUALITYstarsNY has focused its evidence-based practices on ensuring high quality educational opportunities for all of New York's youngest learners. Through a combination of assessment, coaching, professional development, and a wide range of resources, QUALITYstarsNY supports early childhood programs to provide the best possible care and education for children from birth to age five.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Director of Systems and Administration plays a key role in the implementation of QUALITYstarsNY. This position works closely with all members of the QUALITYstarsNY team and colleagues at the Institute, to establish project priorities, develop plans and ensure goals are implemented effectively and in a timely manner. This position supports the Senior Director in monitoring and ensuring accountability of budgets and supports the data systems within QUALITYstarsNY. This position reports to the QUALITYstarsNY Senior Director and undertakes additional assignments at the discretion of the Senior Director and the Institute’s Executive Director. This position acts in the Senior Director’s absence to ensure continuity of programming. The Director of Systems and Administration supervises a management team of the Data Systems and Rating Manager and the Senior Project Associate(s).
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership & Supervision
Management & Monitoring
Communication & Partnerships
Minimum Qualifications
Other Qualifications
Physical Requirements
How to Apply
Provide a resume and cover letter specifying your qualifications, experience, and interest relevant to this position.
RFCUNY Employee Benefits and Accruals
The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) was established as a not-for-profit educational corporation chartered by the State of New York in 1963. RFCUNY supports CUNY faculty and staff in identifying and obtaining external support (pre-award) from government and private sponsors and is responsible for the administration of all such funded programs (post-award).
RFCUNY stands between CUNY’s principal investigators (PIs) and the sponsors who support them and strives to fulfill its essential responsibilities to both groups. Working closely with individual PIs and Grants Officers on the campuses, RFCUNY oversees employment, accounting, audit, reporting, purchasing, and special responsibilities that include management of a planned giving program; liaison with governmental agencies and foundations; negotiation of agreements; facility construction and renovation; protection and commercialization of intellectual property; and compliance with applicable standards in research involving human subjects, animal care, environmental and radiological safety, and conflicts of interest.
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.
Children need to spend their most critical years with dedicated, educated, trained, and well-compensated individuals in order to thrive. The New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute leads the…
How to Apply
Provide a resume and cover letter specifying your qualifications, experience, and interest relevant to this position.
How to Apply
Provide a resume and cover letter specifying your qualifications, experience, and interest relevant to this position.