Jobs at Cornell University

Leads communications for Cornell’s community engagement center and Student and Campus Life initiatives. Develops strategic storytelling and content across email, websites, social media, print, and other digital platforms. Collaborates with students, faculty, staff, community partners, and vendors to promote programs, partnerships, and impact. Manages editorial voice, communications projects, campaign analytics, content strategy, and production processes while supporting inclusive, institution-wide engagement goals.

Perform diagnostic virology testing (virus isolation, cell culture, ELISA, molecular methods, serology), receive and process clinical specimens, accurately document results, and support daily lab operations including inventory, equipment maintenance, and organization in a fast-paced diagnostic laboratory.

The Associate Managing Editor co-manages daily operations for a peer-reviewed academic journal, including manuscript submissions, online peer review, developmental and copy editing, book reviews, web content, issue production, marketing, events, reporting, and administrative communications. The role requires independent judgment, confidentiality, strong organization, and collaboration with editors, authors, reviewers, stakeholders, and the publisher.

Paid intern supporting nanofabrication operations in a cleanroom environment. Responsibilities include learning and operating fabrication tools, assisting with chemical waste and supply routines, monitoring and validating equipment, supporting tool maintenance, learning metrology techniques, and developing baseline processes. The intern will complete an independent project and present written and oral findings. The role requires safe handling of hazardous chemicals, attention to detail, computer skills, and a 20-hour weekly commitment.

Executes email marketing campaigns for alumni engagement, fundraising, signature events, and broad solicitations. Designs and builds emails, ensures coding, tracking, accessibility, and accuracy, and monitors engagement metrics including opens, clicks, unsubscribes, audience journeys, and ROI. Advises internal partners on email strategy and best practices, oversees email sends, maintains production calendars, coordinates timelines, and contributes to campaign reporting and testing.

Advises undergraduate students and recent alumni on national fellowships, research opportunities, and funding applications. Manages the Rawlings Cornell Presidential Research Scholars program, including student selection, orientation, events, faculty partnerships, communications, reporting, and participant support. Coordinates with campus offices and faculty, supports Summer Experience Grant awards, maintains application systems, and contributes to outreach, evaluation, and continuous program improvement.

Supports Cornell’s beginning farmer and veterans-in-agriculture programs through outreach, training, communications, participant recruitment, workshops, surveys, data entry, reporting, website and social media updates, and stakeholder coordination. The role develops educational resources, maintains program records and calendars, assists with events and presentations, and connects veterans and aspiring farmers with agricultural support networks. It is a one-year, part-time position requiring agricultural community experience, travel, outdoor work, and occasional evening or weekend availability.

Processes and reconciles gifts, pledge payments, and biographical records with accuracy and sound judgment. Maintains demographic data, verifies information from multiple sources, performs quality assurance, corrects inaccuracies, and protects confidential information. Provides professional guidance and customer service to colleagues while supporting a collaborative advancement services team.

Leads financial operations and budget management for international university programs, including payables, vendor reconciliation, study abroad billing, fund transfers, affiliate entities, foreign payroll, audits, service agreements, contracts, and internal controls. The role supports complex budgets, ensures policy and regulatory compliance, coordinates international business operations, advises on procedures, and develops improved financial systems and processes.

Drive enterprise sales and strategic partnerships for eCornell’s online learning solutions across the Southeast territory. Responsibilities include prospecting Fortune 1000 organizations, developing account plans, conducting executive discovery, designing customized learning solutions, presenting to senior leaders, negotiating contracts, managing a $2 million-plus revenue portfolio, achieving bookings targets, maintaining Salesforce records, and reporting on pipeline and forecasts.

Leads Cornell’s university-wide employer engagement strategy, including employer outreach, recruitment programming, partnership development, team leadership, training, KPI development, assessment, and reporting. The role collaborates with career offices, faculty, staff, alumni relations, corporate relations, students, and employers to expand recruiting opportunities and support inclusive career outcomes across all colleges and schools.

Supports organizational change management for Cornell’s enterprise modernization initiative, with approximately 75% focused on Data and Analytics. Develops change strategies, impact assessments, readiness plans, stakeholder analyses, communications, training coordination, and risk mitigation activities. Builds relationships across decentralized university units, facilitates stakeholder forums and change champion networks, monitors adoption and resistance, and reports on readiness and outcomes. The role partners with program teams, leaders, project stakeholders, communications and training teams, and vendors to enable successful adoption of new processes and technologies.

Curates and preserves a 950,000-specimen herbarium collection, overseeing accessioning, cataloging, imaging, database and barcode management, loans, taxonomy, conservation, and collection improvement. The role supervises students and volunteers, directs digital collection activities, provides plant identification services, teaches and leads field programs, conducts botanical research, manages budgets, and represents the herbarium through publications, presentations, and institutional partnerships.

Manage multiple capital construction and facilities projects from planning through closeout, including scope, budgets, schedules, design coordination, procurement, construction oversight, compliance, change orders, documentation, and turnover. Collaborate with faculty, staff, contractors, architects, engineers, and other stakeholders while monitoring quality, safety, contractual obligations, and project performance. Projects typically range from $100,000 to $2 million.

Provides administrative support to the Economics Chair and department manager, including calendar and meeting coordination, faculty recruitment and promotion processes, course scheduling, academic records, reporting, events, visitor support, and office operations. The role manages confidential information, coordinates activities across three colleges, supports faculty and students, and contributes to departmental projects and initiatives.

Leads a cross-campus team supporting research computing, instructional systems, and AI/ML infrastructure. Owns platform roadmaps, capacity planning, technical standards, operations, lifecycle management, SLAs, governance, budgeting, procurement, and vendor relationships for HPC clusters and related environments. Partners with faculty, researchers, and IT leadership to deliver scalable Linux and Windows systems, GPU/CPU computing, networking, authentication, and distributed-computing solutions across multiple Cornell locations.

Lead eBird web and mobile projects: manage roadmaps, coordinate cross-functional teams, run beta testing and usability research, integrate user feedback, and communicate releases to global birding communities to advance participatory science and conservation outcomes.

Leads the strategy, launch, governance, technology roadmap, supplier relationships, traveler experience, compliance, analytics, sustainability, and duty-of-care operations for Cornell’s enterprise-wide Travel & Expense program. The role unifies multiple Cornell entities, oversees TMC and technology partners, modernizes booking and reimbursement processes, drives adoption and automation, manages cross-functional stakeholders, and delivers measurable improvements in cost, compliance, service, safety, and sustainability.

The Tech Services Supervisor manages growth chamber operations, providing technical support, supervising staff, ensuring safety compliance, and coordinating research projects across multiple facilities.

Manage day-to-day health and continuous improvement of Cornell's enterprise Salesforce ecosystem. Lead a team supporting multiple Salesforce orgs and Marketing Cloud, oversee sprint planning, production support, integrations, data integrity, security, compliance (FERPA/HIPAA), and platform enhancements. Drive operational best practices, service delivery, stakeholder collaboration, and Agile change management to align platform capabilities with institutional priorities.