Assistant/Associate Director: Inclusive Graduate Student Success & ACS Bridge Program – Cornell Engineering (Hybrid)

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Who We Are

Cornell’s College of Engineering (COE) has a long and storied history of distinction, creativity, and impact.  The departments of mechanic arts (now mechanical engineering) and civil engineering date to the University’s founding. The College established the nation’s first electrical engineering department in 1889 and awarded the nation’s first doctorates in both electrical and industrial engineering.  Its legacy continues to this day, as Cornell Engineering brings together the best minds from across disciplines to invent disruptive technologies and discover novel solutions to complex and challenging problems.  It is a global leader in research, teaching, and advancing diversity in the field.  COE is also a key collaborator across the rich interdisciplinary landscape at Cornell University, playing a role in all of the university’s Radical Collaborations to address society’s most challenging problems.  The college enrolls a diverse and talented student body that includes 3,200+ undergraduate students and 2100+ graduate students, and it has over 46,600 living alumni around the globe.  COE is home to a diverse, collaborative, talented and dedicated 200+ tenured and tenure-track faculty, plus research faculty and professors of practice who work each day to change the world.  Faculty span 10 departments, schools and programs with a footprint in both Ithaca and New York City. 

The Office of Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE) offers a comprehensive portfolio of programs at the precollege, undergraduate, graduate, and faculty levels which facilitate the recruitment, development, retention, and success of all members of the engineering community, but especially those from minoritized backgrounds and/or historically underrepresented in engineering. DPE advances diversity, equity, and inclusion reflective of the College of Engineering’s strategic plan, which enables community members from all backgrounds and cultures to thrive and succeed at Cornell.

Cornell’s Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) has a long and distinguished history of successfully educating leaders for a wide variety of industries and academia. Graduates have major impacts on the chemical, consumer, pharmaceutical, petroleum, electronic, biotechnology, and biomedical industries. CBE launched and houses Ezra’s Bridge a first-of-its-kind at Cornell University, transitional MS program within (CBE) department with the purpose of fostering excellence and promoting students from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds to address a national gap in representation of these groups among chemical science PhDs.

What You Will Do

The over-arching goal for this position is to positively impact and enhance access to Cornell Engineering as well as the engineering graduate student experience. Thus, you are a highly organized, pro-active, and forward-thinking professional to implement and deliver programming to achieve goals by strategically developing and/or managing programs and services. This role couples relationship-driven leadership with results-oriented management. You are big picture focused as well as attune to details related to successful outcomes and innovative solutions. While modeling inclusive behavior, you interact and collaboratively work with students, faculty, staff, and other internal and external collaborators advancing graduate student access and success. As an intrinsically motivated leader, you are flexible and able to work in a dynamic environment as well as a self-starter who can receive direction as well as manage up.

In this role, you will:

• Contribute to a high functioning work group that fosters a positive, engaged work environment as well as contribute broadly across programs within the office of Diversity Programs in Engineering (DPE).

• Report to the Director of DPE with a dotted line to the Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE).

• In coordination with Cornell’s overall strategic institutional goals, provide leadership and supporting activities to advance the recruitment and retention of graduate students with a special focus on racial, ethnic, gender and socioeconomic groups underrepresented in STEM.

• Develop and recommend strategic and operational planning for programs; manage the development and implementation of comprehensive and coordinated programmatic models that address needs for Bridge Program and inclusive graduate student success initiatives.

• Collaborate with directors, administrators, and program staff to develop long range goals, action plans and measurement /evaluation processes; regularly review program strategic plan and assess effectiveness of the program in achieving it and determine any adjustments needed.

• Cultivate and maintain collaborative relationships with other departments across campus to promote the incorporation of programs in the Cornell community; monitor internal and external planning needs and accountability requirements to identify, develop and implement practical solutions.

• Act as primary resource for ad hoc requests from the American Chemical Society, Directors, External Advisory Council, Professional Development Team, Faculty Mentors, Mentoring Committee and participants.

• Provides important insights and recommendations for expanding access and improving effectiveness.

• Serve as a resource and advisor for a minimum of one student organization.

• Advise current students, prospective students, and parents on diversity, equity, and inclusion support services.

• Perform data collection and analysis along with recommendations and considerations for planning and reporting for programs within the position’s portfolio.

• Prepare progress reports and proposal for stewardship letters, granting entities, college, and university administration.

• Strategically plan and allocate program resources.

• Analyze financial data and recommend modifications to operations as indicated by findings.

• Participate in professional development opportunities related to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, college student and program development.

• Perform other duties and special projects as assigned.

What We Need

The ideal candidate will have a proactive approach to taking ownership of their work, impact, and results. As a continuous learner who a has a demonstrated ability to use experience and sound judgement in decision-making, the candidate works both independently and collaboratively to execute tasks efficiently within a team environment.

For this role, you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 to 7 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination with STEM or adjacent student graduate student facing support programs; or equivalent combination of experience and education.

• Multicultural competency and/or experience working with students from racially diverse, historically marginalized and/or first-generation college populations.

• Ability to efficiently prioritize, organize, and effectively manage a substantial workload in a fast-pace, collaborative academic setting.

• Strong experience with program and budget management, team building and conflict management, contract management and administration, and program assessment.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills coupled strong written and presentation skills.

• Demonstrated track record of working successfully with faculty, graduate students especially those from historically underrepresented groups and first-generation college students.

• Experience advising and/or mentoring, making referrals, setting boundaries, and equipping students with skills and strategies to engage in self-advocacy.

• Availability to travel and work on some evenings and weekends during the summer and academic year.

• Demonstrated competency in the use of Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.), Qualtrics (or similar Survey Tools), FileMaker Pro (or similar databases), website content management, and/or other related software.

What We Prefer

• Master’s degree engineering education, a STEM field, college student personnel, student affairs administration, higher education, diversity education, sociology, counseling, or a related field.

• Experience implementing diversity and inclusion, student development, and/or persistence best practices within programs.

• Demonstrated effective leadership in planning, implementing, and evaluating STEM education focused interventions and programs.

• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and quantitative reasoning skills, with an attention to detail and strong organizational skills.

• Prior supervisory experience.

• Strong record mentoring graduate students in STEM disciplines.

• Valid driver’s license and willing to transport students in university or rented vehicles when necessary for programs or conferences.

• General knowledge about various engineering fields and Cornell Engineering programs, services, and resources.

Rewards and Benefits

• This position is located in Ithaca, New York. The position will allow for the flexibility to work remotely a maximum of one day per week at a location of employee’s choosing within the United States. The New York Convenience of employer guidelines require New York State individual tax reporting and withholdings for this position. Additional individual state income tax filings may also be required if working temporarily outside New York State.  

• Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives. 

• Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, access to wellness programs, and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: https://hr.cornell.edu/benefits-pay . 

• Our leave provisions include three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1. 

• Cornell’s impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children’s Tuition Assistance Program. 

Important Notes about Applying

• Please submit both a cover letter and a résumé to be considered for this position.

• There is no relocation assistance available for this position.

• There is no visa sponsorship available for this position.

  

University Job Title:

Coord Program II

Job Family:

Student Services

Level:

F

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Pay Range:

$62,876.00 – $73,072.00

Company:

Endowed

Contact Name:

Mack Alves-Morgan

Number of Openings:

1

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• Unique applicable skills.

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