As a College Aide, you can work up to 17 hours per week during the school year and then full time during the summer. Please note you must be a student enrolled in an accredited college or graduate school to be eligible.

The NYC Department of Design and Construction's Human Resources and Staff Development Division seeks a College Aide for the Personnel Unit. The candidate will provide support to the unit by performing tasks such as handling onboarding and offboarding of employees; sending pending candidate check-in notifications; reviewing Comprehensive Personnel Documents (CPDs) for accuracy; filing documents into employee personnel folders; assisting with recruitment tasks, such as creating job postings, classifying candidates, placing job posting notices on DDC's HUB, sending correspondence to non-selected candidates, and assisting with external and internal career fairs; assisting with administrative tasks, such as filing, copying, scanning, distributions, archiving, and data entry; assisting with incoming and outgoing inter-agency file transfer and DP-2001 requests; drafting various correspondence; providing backup assistance for various tasks; and assisting with other special projects as needed.

For Assignment Level I:
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school.
For Assignment Level II (Information Technology):
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or closely related field, including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study.
For Assignment Level III (Information Technology Fellow):
Matriculation at an accredited college or graduate school. Employment is conditioned upon continuance as a student in a college or graduate school with a specific course of study in information technology, computer science, management information systems, data processing, or other area relevant to the information technology project(s) assigned, including or supplemented by 9 semester credits in an acceptable course of study. Appointments to this Assignment Level will be made by the Technology Steering Committee through the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications.

SPECIAL NOTE
Maximum tenure for all Assignment Levels in the title of College Aide is 6 years. No student shall be employed more than half-time in any week in which classes in which the student is enrolled are in session. Students may be employed full-time during their vacation periods.

Candidates should have excellent organizational, written, and verbal skills. Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook is preferred.

As a prospective employee of the City of New York, you may be eligible for federal loan forgiveness programs and state repayment assistance programs. For more information, please visit the U.S. Department of Education’s website at https://studentaid.gov/pslf/

New York City residency is generally required within 90 days of appointment. However, City Employees in certain titles who have worked for the City for 2 continuous years may also be eligible to reside in Nassau, Suffolk, Putnam, Westchester, Rockland, or Orange County. To determine if the residency requirement applies to you, please discuss with the agency representative at the time of interview.

The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.