Jobs at Cornell University

Coordinates graduate programs in Nutrition, supporting academic administration, admissions, enrollment, student funding, records, reporting, accreditation, communications, and student advising. Partners with faculty, students, division staff, and Graduate School administrators to implement policies, manage systems, improve processes, and enhance the graduate student experience. The role also supports recruitment, assessment, strategic initiatives, and emerging academic programs.

Provides front-desk and administrative support to the Offices of the President and Provost. Responsibilities include greeting visitors, answering phones, monitoring calendars, managing correspondence and inboxes, coordinating office coverage, and liaising on vendor payments and procurement transactions. The role requires professionalism, confidentiality, sound judgment, strong customer service, organizational skills, and proficiency with Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, Qualtrics, Google Drive, and collaboration tools.

Provides technical leadership for a college IT support team, supervising student employees, managing ticket queues, leading client-services projects, and coordinating cross-functional initiatives. Delivers advanced desktop support for PC and Mac environments, maintains hardware and peripherals, supports business systems, and troubleshoots complex user issues. Manages Apple device deployments across macOS and iOS, maintains configuration documentation, provides limited server support, develops user training, and helps ensure reliable, secure technology services.

Provides high-level administrative and operational support to two Associate Vice Presidents. Responsibilities include complex calendar and travel coordination, meeting preparation, communications, project and deadline tracking, policy documentation, budget administration, confidential information handling, and cross-functional coordination across university colleges and units.

Manages electronic resource licensing, acquisitions, vendor relationships, access troubleshooting, and library workflows. Collaborates across the library to improve stewardship of scholarly collections, develops expertise in emerging standards and technologies, and contributes to scholarship, service, and professional engagement. This early-career role supports the Cornell community through effective electronic resource access and service-oriented problem solving.

Supports Cornell Engineering fundraising by developing persuasive donor materials, researching prospects, managing solicitation projects, coordinating timelines, and assisting with donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. Partners with development officers to advance fundraising priorities, maintain accurate documentation, translate complex initiatives into compelling communications, and strengthen relationships with alumni, parents, and university supporters.

Leads Cornell Tech’s relationships with government officials, community stakeholders, businesses, nonprofits, and civic organizations. Plans community programming, government engagements, tours, and institutional visits; represents the campus externally; monitors economic development issues; tracks commitments and prepares reports. Coordinates responses to government and community inquiries, connects university resources with community partners, and collaborates with communications, marketing, university relations, and campus leadership.

Coordinates gift intention processing, including interpreting donor agreements, recording and revising pledges, managing workflow, researching commitments, and ensuring data accuracy. Performs quarterly and ad hoc pledge analyses while collaborating with development teams. Supports CRM conversion and special projects, applying accounting principles, institutional policies, CASE standards, IRS guidelines, and GAAP requirements.

Coordinates three AI-focused teaching and learning initiatives at Cornell, including project planning, stakeholder communication, milestone tracking, student supervision, assessment, reporting, and dissemination. The role manages GenAI student research, AI curriculum integration pilots, and a faculty learning community. It requires strong organization, facilitation, communication, and relationship-management skills in an on-campus higher education environment.

Provides academic HR consultation across departments, supporting appointments, hiring, employee issues, policy interpretation, compensation, workforce budgeting, Workday transactions, reporting, and HR system training. Builds relationships with faculty, staff, and leaders while handling sensitive matters confidentially. Maintains accurate records, supports salary processes, tracks appointment deadlines, and provides backup for academic HR operations in a hybrid university setting.

Coordinates daily operations for the Office of Spirituality and Meaning-Making and its facilities. Manages event logistics, supplies, AV and IT needs, marketing support, expenses, speaker travel, student worker hiring and supervision, visitor services, and building-related coordination. Requires strong organization, communication, customer service, independent judgment, and inclusive relationship-building skills. The role is onsite and may require occasional evening, weekend, or non-standard hours.

Oversee Fall 2026 law school exam administration, including organizing exam materials, checking proctors in and out, communicating instructions, coordinating meal breaks, supporting proctors, and reporting irregularities. The temporary Head Proctor will work onsite Monday through Friday from December 3 through December 18, with paid training provided before exams begin.

Provides administrative and organizational support to Diversity Alumni Programs leadership, including scheduling, travel booking, expense reconciliation, vendor invoices, data reporting, website updates, event registration, communications, fundraising reports, and event coordination. Maintains relationships with alumni, volunteers, students, faculty, staff, and community members while managing multiple priorities and supporting occasional evening events and travel.

Designs, develops, tests, and deploys production-grade Generative AI and LLM applications for university administrative, academic, and research needs. Builds secure, scalable cloud-native AI capabilities, integrates enterprise identity systems, supports the software development lifecycle, and improves reliability, performance, and user experience. Collaborates with project managers, analysts, architects, developers, faculty, and IT teams while applying engineering, security, observability, and responsible AI practices.

Develops enterprise partnerships and drives revenue by selling eCornell’s professional education, executive learning, and customized workforce development solutions. Responsibilities include prospecting Fortune 1000 organizations, managing strategic accounts and sales pipelines, engaging C-suite executives, designing tailored solutions, negotiating contracts, meeting bookings targets, managing a $2 million-plus revenue portfolio, and maintaining Salesforce forecasts and activity records.

Provides executive administrative support to the department chair, including confidential correspondence, meetings, events, reports, travel, and reimbursements. Coordinates faculty recruitment, candidate visits, promotion and tenure processes, leaves, records, and compliance workflows. Leads administrative staff development, workload allocation, payroll approvals, hiring, and student employee oversight. Supports departmental operations, special projects, and faculty and staff service initiatives.

Supports audience segmentation, donor and supporter data management, campaign reporting, communications initiatives, and marketing technology operations. The role maintains data quality and privacy compliance, analyzes campaign performance, coordinates communications projects and stakeholder deliverables, troubleshoots marketing platforms, and recommends process improvements. It requires strong organization, communication, analytical, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills while supporting mass solicitation campaigns across direct mail, email, digital, and event channels.

Advise international students on F-1 and J-1 immigration regulations, documentation, and lawful status requirements. Review requests for accuracy, maintain confidential case records, respond to student and campus inquiries, apply federal regulations and university policies, and provide in-person and virtual appointments. The role also involves collaboration, professional development, managing multiple priorities, and supporting student success.

Provides comprehensive administrative, data coordination, reporting, travel, expense, event, calendaring, and technical support for University Major Gift Officers. Maintains data integrity in PeopleSoft and related reporting systems, trains administrative staff on data standards, conducts quality reviews, supports donor communications and gift tracking, and coordinates meetings, events, travel, records, and office processes. The role requires strong organization, communication, software proficiency, discretion, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a hybrid university environment.

Develops and expands corporate partnerships for Cornell Duffield Engineering by aligning industry engagement with research, education, recruitment, and innovation priorities. Responsibilities include corporate outreach, relationship management, faculty-partner coordination, proposal development, CRM maintenance, engagement tracking, event support, and cross-functional collaboration with university stakeholders. The role requires strong communication, facilitation, organization, project management, and the ability to understand and communicate technical, scientific, and educational activities.