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Careers at Manhattanville
The following career opportunities are currently available at Manhattanville.
Most-recently added positions are at the top of each list.
Adjunct & Part-Time Faculty
Administrative & Staff
Please direct all applications and inquiries to:
Human Resources
Manhattanville College
2900 Purchase Street
Purchase, NY 10577
Telephone: (914) 323-5270
FAX: (914) 323-5322
E-mail: humanresources@mville.edu
Manhattanville College is an equal opportunity employer actively encouraging applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.
March 11, 2010
Position: Advancement Assistant
Department: Institutional Advancement
Status: Full-Time
Position Description:
Reporting to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement, the Advancement Administrative Assistant will be responsible for the overall management for the office of the Institutional Advancement. The incumbent will manage extensive calendars; prepare briefs, agendas and all related correspondence for the Office of Institutional Advancement, often acting as liaison with the College President's staff as well as the lead person for all administrative tasks and responsibilities within the department.
Responsibilities:
- Preparation of complex reports and information gathering for the department; conducting related research; preparation of minutes and special reports involving fundraising initiatives and objectives
- Interface on behalf of the department with alumni; assist in coordination with the President's office staff and all other College departments
- Identifying and developing systems to facilitate the smooth functioning of the office and the implementation of goals and objectives
- Responsible for general office management; assisting with the proper implementation and reconciliation of the Advancement Office budget; point of initial communications with donors, alumni and the Manhattanville community; telephone and e-mail coverage, screening and directing all calls appropriately, in addition to responsibility for comprehensive written communication as needed
- Collaborate with Advancement Services to ensure that proper processing of gifts and reports is handled in timely fashion and serve as additional support for processing and reconciling gifts
- Participate in the planning, implementation and the coordination of special events as assigned, often working closely with the Manhattanville community
- Additional responsibilities as warranted
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and/or its equivalent required
- Minimum of three years' related experience required
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, required
- Demonstrated ability to set priorities, work with diplomacy and efficiency in a highly pressured environment
- Excellent organizational ability as well as the ability to manage deadlines and relate to all levels of personnel
- Must be highly detail oriented with excellent word processing skills, familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite and Excel spreadsheet applications essential
- Knowledge of Raiser’s Edge software preferred
- Diplomacy, tact and discretion required
- Experience in an institution of higher education preferred, special preference given to experience with the Manhattanville College community or similar
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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February 22, 2010
Position: Childhood/Elementary Education
Department: Education
Status: Full-time, tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank in Childhood/Elementary Education
Responsibilities:
- Teach a range of undergraduate and graduate childhood/elementary education courses
- Teach an inquiry-oriented field-based elementary science curriculum methods course at one of the School of Educations K-5 Professional Development Schools (PDSs)
- Serve as co-liaison to the Day Start program (graduate day coursework) and the PDS Fellows Program (all fieldwork assigned at this one school for Day Start students)
- Assist in overseeing the dual degree program in childhood and special education
- Work with Manhattanville PDSs on curriculum and instruction issues and on other special initiatives within the department to improve learning experiences for children
- serve on departmental and college-wide committees
- Conduct research that aids in the on-going development of our PDSs
Qualifications:
- Prior elementary school teaching experience (state teacher certification preferred)
- An earned doctorate in the appropriate area; the ability to teach and develop childhood/elementary education courses, including a science curriculum methods course; and active scholarship
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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February 12, 2010
Position: Adjunct Professor - Personal Finance
Department: School of Graduate & Professional Studies
Status: Part-time, weekends (and some weeknights), June-July
The School of Graduate & Professional Studies seeks an adjunct professor to teach MFIN 5207 Personal Finance in the graduate business program. Courses meet on weekends for a compressed Summer semester in June-July. Some weeknight meetings may be scheduled as well.
Course Description: MFIN 5207 Personal Finance
This course provides comprehensive coverage of personal financial planning in the areas of money management, consumer credit, tax strategies, real estate and other consumer decisions, legal protection, insurance, investments, retirement planning, and estate planning. Students will focus on the major personal financial planning problems that individuals and families encounter as responsible economic citizens. Emphasis is placed on developing short and long-range financial goals and developing a personal financial plan. The course provides the foundation for those wishing to enter the financial planning field.
Required qualifications:
- Minimum of a master’s degree in business, finance, or economics
- Certified Financial Planner certification
- Minimum eight (8) years relevant work experience
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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February 5, 2010
Position: Registered Dietician
Department: Health Center
Status: Part-time, 10 month position
Position Summary:
This is a 10 month per year position. Duties include individual / group nutritional counseling, programming and outreach.
Required:
- New York State Licensed Registered Dietician
- BA required, MA / MS preferred
- Must have experience working with college age students, athletes and eating disorders
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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January 12, 2010
Position: Director of Development
Department: Institutional Advancement
Status: Full-Time
Reporting to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement, the Director of Development will be expected to work with the VP to create an innovative, comprehensive and sustainable fundraising program to support the College. The Director will conceptualize, plan and execute a strategic and coordinated program to identify and create opportunities to advance the College through annual fund, major and planned gifts, capital campaigns, and foundation and corporate gifts all focused on shaping a sustainable tradition of support to the College.
He/she will collaborate with Institutional Advancement Support Services and Alumni Relations officers to ensure that major donors and alumni are fully engaged in the College's current and future campaign/development strategies and goals. The Director will be the day-to-day manager of the fundraising staff and ensure that activity levels are met.
Responsibilities:
- Manage, cultivate and solicit a prospect pool of major gifts and high-end annual fund donors (100) and meet the associated activity goals.
- Lead a team of six to eight, ensuring that they are high performing and staffing a full range of development functions including major gifts, parent and student giving, annual fund, corporate and foundation and stewardship.
- Manage the prioritization of new and existing donors with the Institutional Advancement staff, and then cultivate these individuals to match their interests with the College's needs.
- Create and execute engagement opportunities using College assets.
- Oversee and reconcile budget for fundraising activities.
- Staff the President, VP and Senior Management, Board of Trustees and key volunteers and ensuring that all are actively and effectively deployed in the fundraising arena at the appropriate levels.
- Work closely with Advancement Services to ensure the accuracy of data entry, gift processing, and gift acknowledgment, and provide comprehensive reporting and analysis for all programs, including ROI on each tactic.
- As a senior member of the Office of Institutional Advancement, work to proactively collaborate with colleagues around prospect issues.
- Additional responsibilities as warranted.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and seven to nine years of fund raising experience required; higher education experience preferred.
- Demonstrated track record of success in the entire range of advancement activities, from annual fund to major gifts, alumni relations, and corporate and foundation relations.
- A comfortable front-line fundraiser; experience developing, cultivating and soliciting major gifts.
- Strong leadership experience with demonstrated ability to lead, motivate, manage and develop a team of professional and support personnel as well as volunteers.
- Ability to think strategically and translate that thinking into targeted goals and actions.
- Superior written and oral communication skills, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into lay terms.
- Excellent interpersonal skills - a relationship builder; able to build and foster networks of individuals and institutions.
- A commitment to working as a member of a team - collegial approach to advancement; able to work across departmental lines to achieve common goals.
- Ability to work effectively with people at all levels of an institution - trustees, faculty, staff, alumni.
- Comfort with ambiguity and able to navigate complex institutions.
- Knowledge of best practices in the advancement field.
- Advanced computer skills with proficiency in Raiser’s Edge and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Ability to prepare and manage budgets.
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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December 23, 2009
Position: Senior Applications Report Developer/Programmer
Department: Information Technology
Status:Full-Time
Job Responsibilities:
Report Development using Crystal Report Writer
Business Objects Enterprise Server Administrator
Database Program Report Development and Structural Database Analysis
Duties:
Business Intelligence and Reporting System Development and Maintenance
Understanding of Datatel/Colleague Enterprise Requirements System
Analysis, development, modification, testing and documentation of reports
Development, maintenance, and validation of stored procedures to extract and present the data
Development of formatted reports and integration of those reports to web based dashboards
Production, trouble shooting, report and dashboard debugging and testing, post-implementation review of new/changed reports and dashboard’s maintenance of a custom reporting solution used for client reporting
Assist and/or coordinate user testing and training, ensuring issues are resolved in pragmatic and an appropriate manner
Assist in writing user and technical documentation
Technology evaluation and adoption
Design, development, implementation and maintenance of a data warehouse architecture and associated reporting solutions using industry standard processes and tools
Skills/Qualifications:
Excellent SQL programming skills and knowledge of SQL development tools
Fluent with Enterprise and Windows Desktop systems
Excellent MS Office skills (Excel & Access in particular)
Excellent familiarity with Oracle database (version 9 & above)
Comfortable skills with Unix command line
Top Database/Datastructures Analyst skills
Highly proficient with Crystal Reports Application Software
Proficient with Crystal Reports Server and Implementation
Experience with the Datatel/Colleague Environment (through release 17/18) a plus. Experience with other comparable ERP system acceptable
Excellent Communication skills
Ability to work in an independent advisory/consulting capacity with minimal supervision (Very important)
Ability to multitask and complete projects on time
Experience: 5+ years in an Academic or Corporate environment with increasing responsibility
Education: B.S./B.A. in Computer Science, Business and Engineering, or other quantitative degree. Masters degree a plus
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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August 3, 2009
Position: Adjunct - Spanish
Department: Spanish
Status: Part-time
The Spanish Department seeks an adjunct instructor to teach:
- Intermediate Spanish II on Mondays and Thursdays from 9:20-10:35am
- Advanced Spanish Grammar Review on Tuesdays and Fridays from 10:45-12:00pm
for the Fall and Spring semesters (2009-2010).
Required:
- Master’s Degree
- Some teaching experience
To apply, please email a cover letter and current CV to Human Resources.
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May 29, 2009
Position: Adjunct Faculty – English Composition
Department: Academic Writing and Composition
Status: Part-time
The Academic Writing and Composition Program at Manhattanville College is seeking part-time adjunct instructors to teach the following courses:
- FYP 1003 First-Year Writing
- ENC 2000 Critical Research and Composition
- ENC 4010 Freshman Writing Seminar
Candidate should have experience teaching composition. Master’s degree required.
To apply for this position, please send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and references to: Human Resources.
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March 24, 2009
Position: Adjunct Professor - Entrepreneurial Finance
Department: School of Graduate & Professional Studies
Status: Part-time, one weekend per month for three months
The School of Graduate & Professional Studies seeks an adjunct professor to teach MFIN 5200 Entrepreneurial Finance in the graduate business program. Courses meet on weekends: one weekend per month for three months.
Course Description: MFIN 5200 Entrepreneurial Finance
This course examines the elements of entrepreneurial finance, focusing on start-up ventures and the early stages of company development. It addresses key questions which challenge all entrepreneurs: how much money can and should be raised; when should it be raised and from whom; what is a reasonable valuation of the company; and how funding should be structured. The course aims to prepare students for these decisions, both as entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of a master’s degree in business
- Significant relevant corporate experience
To apply for this position, please email a current resumé to Human Resources.
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May 23, 2008
Postion: Adjunct Professors - Economics and Finance
Department: Graduate and Professional Studies
Status: Part time - six weekends per semester
The School of Graduate & Professional Studies at Manhattanville College, Purchase NY, seeks adjunct professors to teach the following courses in the graduate business program. Courses meet on six weekends per semester.
MFIN 5100 - Corporate Finance Policy, Structure and Strategy
The course applies financial theories, techniques and models to the study of corporate financial decisions. Aspects of corporate policy and strategy, industry structure and the process for measuring and managing the value of companies are also addressed. Students are required to study an actual firm from the perspective of concepts and models developed in the course and present the study to the class.
MFIN 5102 - Managerial Economics
This course covers the broad principles of economics that underlie and affect all business decisions, such as introducing a new product or service, diversifying, pricing products, segmenting customers, and addressing regulatory issues. Emphasis will be placed on evaluating market environments and the interaction among firms, and on how decisions affect the profitability of the company.
MFIN 5206 - Management of Financial Institutions
This course examines the management problems of financial institutions, with emphasis on banking institutions. Continuous change in the financial services industry is driven by various international dimensions of increasing competition, advances in information technology, evolution of the security and derivatives markets, and changes in private and government regulation. How banks and other financial institutions are organized to meet continuous change and what management and financial officers must do to generate success for their firms and for themselves will be discussed.
Qualifications: Must have minimum of a master’s degree in business and significant relevant corporate experience.
To apply for this position, please email a current resumé to Human Resources.
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Spring, 2007
Position: Adjunct Faculty - Sport Business Management
Department: School of Graduate and Professional Studies
Status: Full-time, Part-time
Manhattanville College is engaged in a search for adjunct faculty to teach in its M.S. degree in Sport Business Management. The curriculum covers the full range of sports management topics with emphasis on the business side of the industry.
We are seeking faculty for the following courses:
- MSBM 5011 Entrepreneurship
- MSBM 5012 Strategic Negotiations
- MSBM 5013 Creativity & Critical Thinking In Organizations
- MSBM 5014 Leading Change
- MSBM 5015 Project Management
- MSBM 5016 Information Technology Management
- MSBM 5017 Communications & Effective Leadership
Candidates should have academic or business experience in sports management and at least a Master’s degree.
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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Ongoing
Position: Adjunct Faculty - Various Subjects
Department: School of Education
Status: Part-time
Part-time adjunct Faculty are needed in the following areas: Literacy, Special Education, Child Development, and TESOL methods. Faculty also are needed for the daytime graduate program in childhood/elementary methods.
- Master's required; Doctorate preferred.
- Teaching experience required in K-12 and/or higher education.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, and three references to:
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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Ongoing
Position: Mentors - Elementary, Special and Secondary Education
Department: School of Education
Status: Part-time
To mentor teachers in Elementary and Special Education and Secondary Subject areas in the JumpStart Program. Applicants should be willing to mentor teachers in schools located in the Bronx. This is an opportunity to share your experience with a beginning teacher.
To apply for this position, please contact Human Resources.
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