The Graduate Center’s Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality conducts and promotes quantitative research using inequality as a lens on society, the economy and politics. The Stone Center’s postdoctoral program, launched in 2018, enables scholars with a recent Ph.D. to spend two years producing empirical research on topics related to inequality in the United States, cross-nationally, or both. Postdoctoral scholars are expected to contribute to the work of the Stone Center by producing research that contributes to the growing national and international conversation on economic inequality and feasible strategies for furthering fair, effective, and efficient policy and institutional reforms.

The program is structured such that two new postdocs enter each fall semester, for a two-year appointment. The Stone Center is seeking a detailed-oriented individual to coordinate the annual search and to administer each cohort’s appointment at the Stone Center.

Search Committee Coordination

Duties to support the faculty search committee include, but are not limited to:

• Serving as Center’s administrative point person for the Chief Diversity Officer and Human Resources department of the Graduate Center
• Coordinating with all necessary offices at each step to complete required paperwork and protocols
• Coordinating with Center faculty and communications staff to announce opening of application and distribution of job postings
• Organizing candidate screening and review of relevant material
• Scheduling candidate interviews and debriefs
• Managing the closing of the search process
• Supporting the search committee to ensure adherence to all CUNY policies
• Managing the organization of all necessary files and maintaining updated hiring timeline

Program Administration

• Overseeing the onboarding of new postdoctoral scholars, including coordinating with HR, IT, Facilities, Security, and other necessary offices for effective integration into the Center
• Managing distribution of postdocs’ research assistant student award postings
• Processing postdocs’ research assistant student awards in coordination with finance manager
• Support finance manager to process postdocs’ research expenses
• Manage purchases and renewals of necessary software and licenses for postdocs
• Support postdocs in navigating hardware and software support internally with Graduate Center IT and externally, as needed
• Additional duties as assigned

Additional Center Support

• Periodically provide administrative support to Center Director and/or staff with tasks that may include meeting or event planning
• Work with Center administrator and finance manager to continually assess Center procedures for improved efficiency
• Support Center programming as needed

Required experience and skills:

• Demonstrated effectiveness synthesizing large volumes of information and meeting deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams with diverse groups of people as well as independently
• Experience using MS Office programs, Dropbox, database systems, and an ability to learn to use new software as needed
• Excellent organizational skills, including time management, file management, and task management skills
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Experience working with budgets, expense tracking, and reconciliation
• Combination of relevant educational and professional experience in senior level administration

Details:

• This position will be a mix of remote work and on-campus work
• Start date will be in early October 2021
• Full-time with benefits
• Starting salary $69,000

To apply: 

• Send CV, cover letter describing relevant experience, and contact information for three references.
• Submit via email to stn_lis@gc.cuny.edu with subject line “Postdoc Program Admin”.
• Materials should be submitted by September 1, 2021.
• Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.