City College of New York: Inaugural Managing Director, the Moynihan Center
The City College of New York will soon launch the Moynihan Center with a mission to develop and support access and excellence in public service leadership nationally. The Center’s inaugural Managing Director will oversee the development and launch of the Center’s programs and activities and manage all aspects of the Moynihan Center at City College to ensure that it delivers on its mission.
With an eventual annual budget of almost $2 million, the Center’s activities will revolve around two complementary fellowship programs: 1) The Moynihan Public Scholars, for outstanding early and mid-career scholars and professionals focused on public affairs, who will be supported with one-year fellowships to write and advance ideas as well as to teach classes at City College; and 2) The Moynihan Student Fellows, for promising students at City College, to help them obtain the necessary training to pursue successful careers as public service leaders. The Center will also host a rich program of public-facing events and seminars with the aim of becoming a first-class hub for research, teaching, and public discussion of important issues facing the nation and New York City.
The Managing Director will report to the Center’s Executive Director, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, a Professor of Political Science at CCNY. The Managing Director will supervise the Center’s staff and, together with the Executive Director and in consultation with an Academic Advisory Committee composed of City College faculty and administrators, will also oversee the recruitment and selection of the two sets of fellows to be hosted by the Moynihan Center on a yearly basis, as well as the planning and implementation of the Center’s more public-facing events and activities.
The Managing Director will be responsible for managing the Center’s finances, producing and overseeing the implementation of regular budget reports, and monitoring and evaluating the Center’s ongoing activities and achievements, producing regular reports for the Center’s Advisory based on both qualitative and quantitative data. During the planning year for the Center’s launch, the Managing Director will also oversee the renovation and furnishing of the permanent home for the Moynihan Center on the fifth floor of CCNY’s historic Shepard Hall.
Qualifications
- A passion for the Center’s mission and familiarity with at least some of its thematic areas of focus: Democratic Culture and Cross-Partisan Cooperation; Social Policy; Institutional Transparency and Reform; Racial Justice in a Multi-Ethnic Society, International Development and Cooperation; Public Space, Design, and Public Art.
- Successful experience leading the growth of a project or organization, including a successful track record of managing a healthy organizational culture as a unifying team builder who inspires collaboration and accomplishment among staff (startup experience is a plus).
- Familiarity and experience with higher education. Capacity to navigate the complexities of a major university and ability to manage relations with other academic programs, faculty, and staff, which involves respect and appreciation for the role, resources, and rhythms of higher education institutions.
- Credibility and experience in animating a public-facing venture, involving formal occasions with high-profile guests and a vocation for national visibility.
- High level of emotional intelligence, humility, and capacity for deep listening and self-reflection.
- Energetic, resourceful, resilient, and flexible, with a good sense of humor.
- Bachelor’s Degree required; advanced degree preferred.
Application Requirements
Applicants should submit:
- a cover letter highlighting your interest and relevant experience
- and a current resume or curriculum vitae.
Send materials to ColinPowellSchoolJobs@gmail.com by Monday, June 27, 2022. Please be sure to put “Moynihan Managing Director” in the subject line of your email.
Please direct any questions about the position to Carlo Invernizzi Accetti at: caccetti@ccny.cuny.edu.
The application deadline is June 27, 2022.
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About the Moynihan Center:
The City College of New York will soon launch the Moynihan Center with a mission to develop and support access and excellence in public service leadership nationally. With an eventual annual budget of almost $2 million, the Center’s activities will revolve around two complementary fellowship programs: 1) The Moynihan Public Scholars, for outstanding early and mid-career scholars and professionals focused on public affairs, who will be supported with one-year fellowships to write and advance ideas as well as to teach classes at City College; and 2) The Moynihan Student Fellows, for promising students at City College, to help them obtain the necessary training to pursue successful careers as public service leaders. The Center will also host a rich program of public-facing events and seminars with the aim of becoming a first-class hub for research, teaching, and public discussion of important issues facing the nation and New York City.
The new Center honors the legacy of the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan – a towering figure in American politics and a lifelong public servant. Over the course of his career, Senator Moynihan’s interests and writing ranged from democratic culture and government transparency, to social policy, civil rights, international relations, and public architecture. The Moynihan Center’s areas of research and public engagement will be similarly broad-ranging and resolutely interdisciplinary. There will also be a unifying attempt to think about social and political problems in innovative ways that transcend partisan divisions, much like Senator Moynihan did during his career.
As Senator Moynihan’s alma mater, The City College of New York has a long history of supporting access to excellence and remains a highly diverse social mobility machine. Half of our students are first-generation college students; half are immigrants, and more than eighty percent are people of color. Such diversity continues to be missing from the ranks of public service, and the Center will aim to prepare students for leadership positions. Within the College, the Moynihan Center will be based in the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, which is home to the social sciences as well as the College’s core leadership and public affairs programs. Based at City College’s historic campus in upper Manhattan, the Moynihan Center will build a vibrant relationship with the rest of New York City and will extend its reach into national and international affairs.
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