Jobs at Cornell University

Serve as the Temporary HR Transaction Specialist, handling employment transactions, onboarding, and providing customer service while ensuring compliance with HR policies.

Coordinates the day-to-day administration and strategic activities of Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Moral Psychology programs. Responsibilities include maintaining records and documentation, communications, student engagement, faculty and partner coordination, reporting, office operations, student worker support, and organizing lectures, workshops, showcases, advisory meetings, and commencement activities. Manages travel, scheduling, venues, catering, audiovisual support, budgets, and on-site logistics while serving as a primary resource for students, faculty, visitors, and partners.

Manages electronic resource acquisitions, access, holdings data, workflows, and troubleshooting for Cornell University Library. Supports FOLIO and EBSCO Discovery implementation and maintenance, documents procedures, tests functionality, resolves technical issues, and coordinates with vendors, information providers, library staff, and patrons. The role requires accurate data work, analytical problem-solving, organization, adaptability, communication, and independent investigation in a remote library environment.

Leads strategic and operational HR for Cornell Tech and the Jacobs Institute. Advises senior leadership on workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, talent management, employee engagement, compensation, change management, and compliance. Oversees HR operations, recruitment, academic HR, employee relations, performance management, organizational development, training, and policy implementation. Supervises three HR staff members and partners with central university HR offices to support faculty, staff, and leadership.

Supports faculty in public and ecosystem health research, applied practice, teaching, and project coordination. Responsibilities include literature reviews, research synthesis, report writing, meeting and event coordination, course planning, instructional material preparation, and general administrative support in an academic environment.

Coordinate MTEI's mid-semester feedback program, create and administer surveys, steward course and survey data, generate reports/visualizations, coordinate faculty programs, manage lending library and instructional technology, support operations and budgets, and supervise student staff to improve teaching and learning outcomes.

Design, develop, and maintain web-based backend services, APIs, and database applications for conservation-focused products. Contribute to cloud migration, scalable infrastructure, containerized deployments, and integration with GIS systems while collaborating across teams and following best practices for testing and documentation.

Provide administrative and program coordination for faculty honorific awards and internal seed funding. Manage nomination and application processes, maintain portals and databases, prepare materials for review panels, coordinate events and communications, draft SOPs and process improvements, and liaise with faculty, leaders, external funders, and the public.

Design, develop, and facilitate teaching development programs for graduate students and contribute to faculty development initiatives, including workshops, consultations, course observations, and program administration and assessment to promote inclusive, evidence-based teaching.

Provide research, writing, and coordination support to major gift officers. Prepare proposals, briefings, stewardship reports, and high-level correspondence; synthesize complex information, support donor engagement and relationship management, and coordinate workflows to advance fundraising strategies.

Develop and execute communications across the enrollment lifecycle: manage Undergraduate Admissions social media, support video projects, coordinate print collateral, create prospective-student content, assist yield communications, and build emails/queries in Slate. Collaborate with enrollment offices and apply institutional brand, privacy, and admissions policies to communications.

Provide post-award financial administration for sponsored projects, ensuring compliance with award terms, Uniform Guidance, and university policy. Review invoices, letter-of-credit draws, prepare sponsor financial reports, perform project closeout, analyze expenses for allowability and allocability, and advise department personnel and principal investigators on financial and compliance issues while coordinating with the Office of Sponsored Programs.

Design, secure, automate, and support Cornell's enterprise Microsoft 365/Exchange messaging environment. Lead hybrid and tenant migrations, architect mail routing and deliverability, implement email security and compliance, develop automation via PowerShell and Graph API, provide Tier 3/4 escalation, perform RCA for outages, and produce documentation and SOPs while collaborating with security, legal, vendors, and campus stakeholders.

Manage and implement enrollment communications across the student lifecycle, including social media, video projects, print collateral, and email building in Slate. Research communications tech, analyze audience insights, lead time-limited and ongoing projects, and recommend strategies to support enrollment goals and institutional brand standards.

Provide front-desk and administrative support for faculty, staff, students, and visitors; manage scheduling, communications, inventories, building access, and procurement; arrange travel and process reimbursements; plan and support events; maintain website and social media; create promotional materials and support communications and photography at events.

Oversees procurement, inventory, issuance, maintenance, repair, laundering, and brand oversight for athletics equipment and apparel across 37 varsity sports. Supervises staff and student workers across multiple equipment rooms, manages budget and day-to-day operations, ensures safety and NCAA compliance, and supports wellness and recreational services.

Support pre-award grant proposal workflows: manage proposal intake, create and maintain proposal records, ensure data accuracy, assess and assign team workloads, communicate with PIs, and ensure coordinators and specialists have complete information. Flexible schedule and occasional overtime during peak seasons.

Support the University Tax Office by compiling tax data, performing basic tax analysis and reconciliations, responding to tax inquiries and notices, assisting with tax returns (sales, payroll, Form 990), and conducting basic tax research under manager supervision.

Design, develop, and maintain dimensional data models, data warehouses, and data marts. Translate business requirements into scalable data structures, build fact and dimension tables, perform SQL development, ETL/source-to-target mapping, data profiling, testing, and validation. Collaborate with stakeholders, mentor peers, and ensure data quality and alignment with enterprise architecture.

Manage financial transaction processing, account monitoring and reconciliations, fellowship and gift fund administration, graduate student appointment support, capital asset tracking, compliance reporting, and stakeholder guidance to ensure audit readiness and stewardship across multiple academic units.