DEIB Student Experience Specialist

Overview

The DEIB Student Experience Specialist role within the college is crucial for fostering an inclusive environment and supporting the success of a diverse student body. Let's break down the key responsibilities outlined in the description:

• Reporting Structure: The Specialist reports to the Associate Dean for Diversity and Equity and the Senior Director of Student Experience, indicating a high level of coordination with the college's leadership.
• Leadership and Partnership: The Specialist plays a role in advancing diversity and inclusion objectives, partnering with various stakeholders within the college and university to align initiatives with broader institutional goals.
• Committee Representation: They represent the college on university and college committees, ensuring that DEIB perspectives are integrated into decision-making processes at all levels.
• Student Support and Advocacy: The Specialist focuses on supporting the retention, success, and well-being of diverse undergraduate and graduate students, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds, through programming, advising, and advocacy.
• Collaboration and Liaison: They collaborate with other departments and offices within the college and university to support students' diverse needs, including career development, alumni engagement, and communication efforts.
• Evaluation and Assessment: The Specialist assists in evaluating existing programs and approaches to assess their effectiveness in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion and identifies areas for improvement or expansion.
• Pre-Collegiate Summer Scholars Program (PSSP): They oversee and manage this program, which supports high school students transitioning to college, ensuring a smooth and supportive transition process.
• Work Location and Flexibility: While primarily based on the Ithaca campus, there's some hybrid remote flexibility considered, acknowledging the evolving nature of work arrangements.
• Community Expectations: All members of the community are expected to contribute to fostering a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment, emphasizing communication, cooperation, respect, and support across differences.

Overall, the DEIB Student Experience Specialist plays a pivotal role in driving the college's commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, ensuring that all students feel supported and empowered to thrive academically and personally.

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 1-2 years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination.  Experience within higer education in the areas of program development, advising, and/or student services

The successful individual will be:

• a great communicator, exhibiting professionalism in spoken and written encounters with multiple stakeholders (faculty, staff, parents, alumni, prospective students, and guidance counselors);
• able to handle sensitive matters and/or confidential information and to communicate with tact, diplomacy, and discretion;
• able to serve as an advocate for individuals of all ethnicities, genders, ages, and backgrounds;
• flexible and able to adjust priorities as needed;
• carefully attentive to detail; and
• organized and proactive.

Additionally, this person will have:

• demonstrated experience developing and delivering diversity and inclusion programming and support services related to student success and well-being, and experience measuring program success/outcomes;
• experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing;
• experience incorporating the perspectives of multiple communities, including communities of color; and
• expertise with typical business software required. 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree.
• Familiarity with college student leadership development, advising practices, and student club management.

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 $60,400 to $70,194 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