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Posted: 21-Apr-22
Location: Ithaca, New York
Salary: Open
Internal Number: WDR-00030932
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Bowers CIS Student Services:
The Bowers CIS undergraduate student services team is dedicated to supporting the college's undergraduate educational mission through academic advising, programming, and other initiatives that prioritize student experience, retention, success, belonging, and well-being.
Position Description:
Cornell Bowers CIS is hiring a part-time (20 hours/week) Assistant Director of Undergraduate Advising to support the college's increasing undergraduate enrollments. The part-time assistant director will join a team of Bowers CIS professional staff advisors and other students services professionals dedicated to using holistic advising to support, develop, coach, and empower the college's more than 2,000 undergraduate majors who hail from three distinct Cornell admitting colleges--Arts & Sciences (A&S), the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and the College of Engineering (COE).
Consistent with the University's recent Mental Health Review, the assistant director of advising will embrace the conviction that high-quality advising plays a critical role in nurturing student growth, resilience, connection, and overall health and well-being. Using a holistic, developmental advising approach, the assistant director will actively advise and coach a portfolio of ~200 Bowers CIS majors, as well as potential majors and minors (including freshmen) and internal and external transfer students, on a one-on-one basis.
In addition to advising, the assistant director will be a key member of the Bowers CIS undergraduate student services team that is focused on building a shared Bowers CIS undergraduate culture and identifying opportunities to enhance the Bowers CIS undergraduate student experience. This includes actively contributing to the development, implementation, and review of new initiatives and programming related to the first-year experience (when most students are pre-major), new majors' onboarding, experiential learning, and student retention, success, belonging, and well-being
Required Qualifications:
The successful candidate will be an empathetic, student-success-and-wellbeing-oriented professional with the interpersonal, problem-solving, and organizational skills required to successfully advise and manage a portfolio of ~200 individual student advisees, while thinking systemically about how to improve student experience and outcomes. Additionally, they must possess:
- A bachelor's degree and two to four years' experience as an academic advisor or related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- A demonstrated commitment to advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, as well as an ability to connect and work with students of all backgrounds and experience levels.
- Strong communication skills, especially listening, writing, and public speaking.
- Ability to work collaboratively with individuals at all levels of an academic environment: students, staff, faculty, directors of undergraduate study, department chairs, deans, and alumni.
- The agility to balance significant complexity and competing demands.
- Strong technical skills and aptitude for learning new technology.
- Experience exercising a high degree of discretion in dealing with confidential information in accordance with university policies and FERPA regulations.
- The flexibility to work occasional evening, and/or weekend programs or events, including supporting commencement-related events held annually over Memorial Day weekend.
Preferred Qualifications:
- A master's degree or coursework in higher education administration, counseling, social work, leadership development, or related field.
- Five or more years' advising or related higher education experience.
- Knowledge of student development theory and practice, the unique needs of underrepresented students, and best practices for inclusive professional staff advising.
- Experience with program design, delivery, and outcomes thinking.
- Experience with Client Relationship Management systems and/or student information systems, including Salesforce CRM, FileMaker Pro, and/or PeopleSoft
Work Modality:
This is a part-time, 20 hours/week position on the Ithaca campus with some flexibility on how those hours are scheduled. It also includes the opportunity, if desired, to pilot a hybrid arrangement with some hours worked-from-home after a period of orientation, onboarding, and acclimation, as well as the potential for increased work-from-home opportunities during some Cornell University student vacation
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
There is no relocation assistance for this position.
University Job Title:
Academic Advising Associate II
Job Family:
Student Services
Level:
F
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Company:
Endowed
Contact Name:
Darren Murphy
Number of Openings:
1
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Prior relevant work or industry experience.
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Unique applicable skills.
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