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Cornell Tech leads a programmatic collaboration between industry and other higher education institutions called Break Through Tech, which works at the intersection of academia and industry to propel more women and underrepresented communities into technology education and careers. Our goal is to achieve gender equality in tech. And we recognize that additional institutional barriers to access exist for specific groups - such as Black, Latina, Indigenous, low-income, and first-generation undergraduate college women and marginalized genders - and seek to elevate their voices and grow their numbers within the tech community.

Launched in 2016 in New York City as a partnership between Cornell Tech and the City University of New York (CUNY), Break Through Tech began expanding nationally in 2020 opening additional affiliate sites in Chicago, DC, and Miami.

Cornell Tech seeks an Assistant Director of Computing Programs who will support the Break Through Tech initiative through the planning and delivery of key strategic projects as part of the initiative's central Program Office. This individual will play a critical role in research, execution of special projects, operational planning, and the documentation of central processes that will facilitate greater efficiency, knowledge sharing across sites, and the development of operational and programmatic innovations. The ideal candidate comes with project management expertise and demonstrated ability to lead projects to successful completion that drive impact. More specifically, we are looking for someone with experience defining structure and process in a high-paced and continuously evolving environment, setting goals and tracking progress, and who can demonstrate judgment to independently make decisions, drive recommendations to the central Program Office, and prioritize their time to stay on mission. This individual must be very organized and detail oriented, and excel at bringing order to ambiguity. The ideal candidate will have experience working in a higher education academic environment with both students, faculty, and program staff, and should be able to build collaborative and influential relationships in a highly cross-functional organization.

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible 5-year term position with the possibility of renewal. It is expected that the individual in this role will be primarily working in-person on the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City with some flexibility for a hybrid remote work schedule.

Key responsibilities include:

Support Senior Director in Oversight of Programs: 40%

• Support the replication of Break Through Tech programs in multiple cities. Support codification of best practices and knowledge management to scale Break Through Tech innovations to additional sites. Work with Senior Director to plan an annual scope and facilitate collaborative learning zoom sessions

• Establish relationships with the local Break Through teams at partner universities around the country. Establish collaborative relationships with local program staff to support oversight, guidance, reporting, and tracking of activities toward goals.

Create systems for continuous improvement: 30%

• Data management and integrity. Manages systems to collect, track, and report against program key performance indicators and measures of success, and effectively analyze data across multiple programs and translate them into insights and actionable outcomes for teams.

• Reinforce performance culture across the Break Through Tech sites. Helps develop team processes that proactively link the work of teams and individuals to impact, sets tone and pace for the team, and deeply focuses on developing culture that inspire high performance.

Special Projects 30%

• Management and execution of strategic projects for Break Through Tech. Lead or support multiple strategic projects across Break Through Tech Computing that help drive toward program objectives. Develops advanced project plans that will enable ongoing efficiency, knowledge sharing, and scale.

• Collaboration with other Break Through Tech National staff to ensure efficiency and alignment with organizational goals around data management, communications, and industry engagement.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 3 to 5 years relevant experience or equivalent combination

• Experience working in leadership roles in program development and execution in the areas of education, training, talent development, internship and/or mentorship programs, and/or student services.

• Passion for diversity in tech, education, and social impact.

• Must have very strong organizational skills and experience in planning and executing large academic or corporate programs.

• Must have a passion for developing mission-driven strategies for programmatic growth and the ability to operationalize those for scale and efficiency across multiple audiences.

• Must be organized, data-driven and detail-oriented with a program management orientation around 'getting the job done'.

• Strong interpersonal skills and relationship building qualities are essential in order to expand corporate engagement.

• Ability to communicate with, work effectively with, and maintain a positive rapport with students, professors and corporate leaders alike.

• Proven ability to work in and lead teams. Highest standards of integrity in order to develop trust with current faculty, staff, and employers.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's in a related discipline.

• Experience with Salesforce or other CRM tools, Asana or Airtable (or other project management tools), Excel/Google Sheets, Wordpress (or other website management tools).Specific experience working with both tech education or workforce development

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