Principal Investigators and Project Directors that intend to hire staff to work on their program and/or project must adhere to the guidelines listed below. Review your budget prior to the recruitment process and ensure that you have budget lines for personnel.
Note that the Research Foundation of CUNY is an E-Verify employer and completion of the I-9 and E-Verify processes are required to onboard staff.
For more information on E-Verify, click here.
New Hires and Re-Hire Guidelines:
**Follow the below steps and contact our office after the applicant has accepted the PI's offer of employment. **
- As per the RF, Principal investigators (PIs) must post vacancies for Full-time and Part-time A positions.
- The classification of an RF employee is based on the number of hours that they will work on a bi-weekly basis:
- Full-time (employee works 70 hours)
- Part-time A (employee works more than 38, but less than 70 hours)
- Part-time B (employee works 38 hours or less)
- A rehire is defined by the RF as any employee of RFCUNY that is reappointed after a break in service lasting 120 or more days. Thus, a rehire must undergo the onboarding process whenever they have been off of payroll for 4 or more months
- Contact the Grants Office to initiate onboarding process.
HR tasks are submitted through OneRF can be accessed by reviewing the RFs job aids page.