NYC Deputy Director

Overview

The NYC Deputy Director (DD) works under the general guidance and direction of the Gensler Family Sesquicentennial Executive Director (ED) and manages operations effectively to meet AAP NYC's strategic objectives. The DD is responsible for the daily administration of AAP NYC facilities, and their duties include:

• stewarding AAP NYC resources (including finances and facilities) and collaborating to administer effective educational programming;
• training and managing full-time (Program Coordinator) and part-time (typically student) employees;
• developing and directing communications and social media content strategies, in collaboration with the AAP Communications office;
• documenting, evaluating, and updating processes and procedures; and
• establishing and sustaining effective collaborative relationships between AAP NYC and Ithaca-based offices

The Deputy Director collaborates closely with AAP staff in Ithaca campus-based offices (including academic department staff and faculty leadership, the Office of Admissions and Student Services, the Finance and HR Support Center, IT Solutions, and Facilities).

There is no visa sponsorship for this position.

The Gensler Family AAP NYC Center Details

Established in 2006, the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center (AAP NYC) facilitates student access to the educational and professional resources of New York City by providing space for seminars and studios, as well as programming for undergraduate and graduate students from across the college. AAP NYC is also a base for the college to engage NYC-based architects, artists, designers, urban planners, and other practitioners, as well as alumni. The two (2) teaching facilities are located at the landmarked Standard Oil Building, 26 Broadway, 20th floor in Lower Manhattan, and at the Tata Innovation Center on the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

About the College

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University (Cornell AAP) is home to nearly 1,000 students, 120 faculty, and 65 staff members who come together from around the world to take up some of today's most urgent challenges and advance research, inquiry, and design to build a more just and sustainable future.

A vital college at one of the nation's foremost research universities, Cornell AAP bridges fields and faculty with five departments, 20 degree programs, 18 faculty-led labs, and the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities, a platform for building partnerships that make a positive impact in our cities and communities nationally and internationally.

Cornell AAP's departments include Architecture, Art, and Planning, as well as the new multicollege Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate, jointly led by the S.C. Johnson College of Business, and the multicollege Department of Design Tech, administered by Cornell AAP in partnership with Cornell Bowers CIS, Cornell Engineering, the Cornell Human Ecology, and Cornell Tech. The college is housed across three locations (Ithaca, New York; New York City; and Rome, Italy), each offering world-class facilities and cutting-edge technologies.

Cornell AAP is about acts of transformation. We are committed to building a caring, inclusive, and rigorous community around our shared priorities — Creative + Critical Practices, Sustainability + Social Impact, Design + Emerging Technologies, and the Future of Cities + Development — that enable us to reimagine and reshape the world in radically new ways, every day.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree and 3–5 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination.

The successful individual will be:

• an experienced leader or trainer of others, with a demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing;
• a great communicator (exhibiting professionalism in spoken and written encounters), with the desire to provide excellent service to all people;
• able to establish and maintain excellent relationships with people from diverse backgrounds, and a demonstrated skill in understanding cultural differences;
• able to cultivate inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members;
• able to set priorities for others, and to provide guidance, training, support, and other resources as necessary;
• capable of working independently and in close collaboration with others;
• a top-notch problem-solver who uses these skills to help others;
• carefully attentive to detail; and
• comfortable managing multiple short- and long-term projects.

Additionally, this person will have:

• expertise with typical business software, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word and Excel especially), as well as database management, and financial management tools, and/or the ability to gain fluency quickly;
• the ability to learn new programs/tools quickly and to adapt to changing policies and procedures; and
• strong financial literacy and knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a field related to architecture, art, urban planning, design, and/or landscape architecture.
• 5 or more years of experience in academic or cultural programming.
• Demonstrated understanding of New York's cultural landscape, and the capacity to creatively promote the AAP NYC program using appropriate social media/communication tools.
• Familiarity with Cornell systems, policies, and procedures is a plus but not required – what will be necessary are the abilities to learn these quickly and to keep skills/knowledge up-to-date.

Required Application Materials

Most positions at Cornell will require you to apply online and submit both a resume/CV and cover letter.  You can upload documents either by "dragging and dropping" them into the dropbox or by using the "upload" icon on the application page. For more detailed instructions on how to apply to a job at Cornell, visit How We Hire on the HR website.

Benefits

The pay range is $86,713–$117,180 annually.

Non-Union Positions
Noted pay ranges reflect the potential pay opportunity for each job profile. The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

• prior relevant work or industry experience
• education level to the extent education is relevant to the position
• unique applicable skills
• academic Discipline (faculty pay ranges reflect 9-month annual salary)

To learn more about Cornell's non-union staff job titles and pay ranges, see Career Navigator.

Union Positions
The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined in accordance with the rates in the respective collective bargaining agreement. To learn more about Cornell's union wages, see Union Pay Rates.

Questions and Additional Information

Melinda Stelick
(607) 255-4316
ms294@cornell.edu