Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions

Overview

Reporting to the Senior Director of Enrollment in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions is responsible for implementing the college's undergraduate recruitment and admissions processes. The Assistant Director executes recruitment initiatives for AAP graduate admissions with the ultimate goal of enrolling high-quality students and achieving enrollment goals in alignment with university and college policies, priorities, and timelines. This includes carrying out a dynamic recruitment program for undergraduate students; representing undergraduate programs to wide internal and external audiences; managing selection processes; enhancing the operations and technologies for AAP undergraduate admissions; and providing and analyzing undergraduate admissions data in consultation with the Sr. Director of Enrollment for the college.

The Assistant Director is a key member of the AAP Enrollment team who works in close partnership with other team members, AAP Student Services, and academic departments to achieve unit goals and advance college and program priorities. The Assistant Director communicates and collaborates with various departments on campus, including but not limited to the Undergraduate Admissions Office and Financial Aid.

No visa sponsorship and no relocation funds are available for this position.

Office of Admissions and Student Services Details

The Office of Admissions and Student Services at AAP provides strategic focus and superior quality services in the promotion of the college’s academic opportunities and resources essential to providing seamless support for students and faculty. The office is co-led by the Senior Director of Enrollment and the Senior Director of Student Experience and is comprised of these collaborative teams:

• Admissions
• College Registrar
• Global Study
• Student Services
• Career Services
• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

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 a minimum of 2 - 4 years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Excellent organizational, planning, time management, interpersonal, and oral and written skills.
• Must be able to handle high volumes of work during peak periods accurately and in a professional manner, paying close attention to detail and meeting time-sensitive deadlines.
• Exhibits initiative and follow-through on work issues and activities.
• The successful applicant will be comfortable with technology and information systems, possess a strong commitment to excellent customer service, be able to multi-task and perform a variety of job responsibilities in a complex and deadline-driven environment, and naturally seek to improve and streamline processes.
• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and well-being.
• Ability to work evenings for information sessions and orientation meetings.
• Proficiency with computers for word processing, database management, presentation preparation, and electronic communication. Aptitude to learn PeopleSoft, Salesforce, FileMaker, and other relevant software required.
• Must be able to interact well with diverse individuals in a professional, diplomatic, and courteous manner, providing exceptional customer service.
• Ability to handle confidential information with tact and discretion.
• Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience recruiting for or a background closely related to AAP’s disciplines.
• Admissions experience in a highly selective institution.

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 $64,265 to $70,467 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