Associate Director of Student Conduct and Community Standards – Student Behavior and Development

Divisional Statement:
Student & Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual, academic, and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters, including public service, health, wellness, social justice, residential living, food services, sports, recreation, career services, and student activities and organizations, including sorority and fraternity life. Our nearly 4,000 staff and student employees who make up SCL embrace the opportunity to represent the division and strive for excellence as we shape the Cornell student experience, one interaction at a time.
Unit Statement:
The Dean of Students Office (DOS) is dedicated to transformational learning in the co-curricular guiding students towards greater resiliency and engagement. DOS promotes a cohesive campus community that brings people together across lines of difference and provides support during challenging times to allow all students to benefit from the educational and co-curricular environment.
Department Statement:
The Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards (OSCCS) supports the holistic development of the student experience by educating students about behavioral expectations and enforcing the Student Code of Conduct (Code) through a fair and educational process that fosters campus safety, accountability, and personal/organizational development. The OSCCS ensures proper investigation and resolution of alleged Code violations, or any other regulation as the University President and/or Board of Trustees may direct. The OSCCS adheres to the established procedures under the Code when resolving alleged conduct violations with fairness, integrity, and objectivity for all parties involved, consistent with the university’s educational goals. The OSCCS is a newly conceived office under the Vice President of Student and Campus Life created by recent amendments to the Code, replacing the Office of the Judicial Administrator.

   

The Associate Director of the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards (OSCCS) for Student Behavior and Development reports to the Director of OSCCS and serves as a member of the office’s leadership team with supervisory and program lead responsibilities. The Associate Director supports the collaborative development, management, and evaluation of the university’s student conduct system and cases arising out of the Code on a campus of 24,000 students and over 1,000 student organizations, including a robust Greek life presence. This position leads all aspects of the conduct process related to individual students, including case management and resolution options (investigation and adjudication, alternative dispute resolution, including restorative practices), and partners with the Associate Director for Group Behavior and Development in all aspects of the conduct process related to student organizations. In this work, the Associate Director utilizes an educational and restorative approach in managing and resolving student conduct concerns. The Associate Director also leads collateral areas of OSCCS, including departmental assessment, the development of all educational, alternative, and restorative resolution options, and departmental communications. Additionally, the Associate Director serves in an Administrator On-call rotation, responding to crisis-related situations after-hours as needed.

Success Factors

• Applied understanding of student development theory, including the impact of student behavior on overall student success. 

• An ability to navigate and work collaboratively in a student-centered environment committed to the values of shared governance, with enthusiasm for and demonstrated commitment to supporting a student body that is diverse with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion, among other factors. 

• An ability to work in a conduct system dedicated to a fair and educational process that fosters campus safety, accountability, and personal/organizational development.

• Exceptional interpersonal, communication, planning, reasoning, organizational, and project management skills, with an ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, high-volume environment that requires building collaborative partnerships with faculty, staff, students, parents/families, and community partners.

While position responsibilities vary, all people leaders are expected to foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by being trustworthy; respecting all individuals; being flexible; supporting work/life integration as well as healthy boundaries; inviting new ideas, alternatives, and perspectives; speaking up and taking action if others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and recognizing the contributions of others. 

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree and a minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in Student Affairs, Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Counseling, or a closely related field with three (3) years of direct experience in student conduct.
• Demonstrated experience working with college student conduct systems, including intake, formal investigations, adjudication, and sanctions.
• Experience working with an educational and restorative approach to student conduct issues, including experience with alternative dispute resolutions and restorative practices.
• Experience supervising, developing, and motivating a diverse staff team.
• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, inclusion, equity, and wellbeing.
• Familiar with assessment strategies in student conduct, including assessing overall program effectiveness and measurement of behavioral trends, student learning, satisfaction, and recidivism.
• Experience working in a quasi-legalistic student conduct process.
• Familiarity with higher education legal issues, including HEOA, FERPA, and Clery.
• Ability to occasionally work nights and weekends (i.e., programming, training, workshops, investigations, on-call crisis-related responsibilities, etc.)
• Experience with conduct software systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with student-centered behavioral policies, procedures, and prevention efforts. 

• Experience working in a complex organizational setting. 

• Experience developing and implementing an educational and restorative approach to student conduct issues, including alternative dispute resolutions and restorative practices.

• Experience working with student organizations, including fraternities, sororities, living groups, athletic teams, and recognized student organizations.

• Experience working with organizational communications and branding efforts.  Experience developing and implementing building assessment strategies and utilizing outcomes to inform organizational change.

   

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University Job Title:

Mgr Program

Job Family:

Student Services

Level:

G

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Pay Range:

$86,000.00 – $106,901.00

Remote Option Availability:

Hybrid Remote

Company:

Endowed

Contact Name:

Shallena Cunningham

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2024-03-13