Assistant Director, Engaged College Initiative & Faculty Development

Student and Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual, academic and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters including public service, health, wellness, social justice, residential living, food services, sports, recreation, career services, and student activities and organizations including sorority and fraternity life. We provide support and services to roughly 25,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Engagement and Land-Grant Affairs advocates for Cornell’s role as the land-grant university for New York state and monitors and collaborates on responses to the governor’s initiatives in higher education and economic development. This Office is responsible for a broad range of relationships and academic programs and initiatives that further Cornell’s public engagement mission globally, locally, and across New York state, where Cornell serves as the state’s land-grant university.

Based in Ithaca, N.Y., the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement builds service and community-engaged learning as a hallmark of the Cornell student experience by empowering students through campus and community collaborations to create a more just and equitable world. The center plays a key role supporting community-engaged learning and public service across the university. The result of the merging of the Public Service Center (PSC) and the Office of Engagement Initiatives (OEI), the center brings high-impact practices such as, community-engaged learning, and service-oriented programs to students, faculty, and staff while increasing opportunities for partnerships in local, national, and global arenas.

Leveraging the existing strengths of Cornell’s public engagement agenda, the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement presents a new model and direction for higher education – one in which community-engaged learning and service is deeply ingrained, fully institutionalized and effectively taught and implemented. Through this center, students graduating from Cornell will enter the world as educated global citizens who practice respect and empathy; seek collaboration, cooperation and creativity; embrace differences and diversity in all aspects of their personal, professional and civic lives; and are dedicated to working with others to help solve some of the world’s most intractable problems.

   

The Assistant Director for Engaged College Initiative & Faculty Development resides within the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, reporting to the Senior Fellow. This role collaborates with the Einhorn Center staff, and the Cornell faculty and staff/administrators to facilitate and expand community-engaged learning and research practices into educational efforts, playing a pivotal role in the Einhorn Center’s Engaged College Initiative to promote community-engaged learning and research within each of the College’s education missions at Cornell. In addition, the successful applicant will support the assessment and evaluation of the impact of community-engaged teaching and research for faculty, students, and partners, including monitoring and development of reports to help inform strategic decisions.

Success Factors   

• Maintains an inclusive and supportive work style, with effective interpersonal skills including the ability to collaborate successfully with customers, students, colleagues, and other community stakeholders

• The ability to manage multiple competing priorities and tasks in a fast-paced working environment, including managing time effectively.

• Ability to visualize data, communicating it to relevant stakeholders, and facilitate its utility for decision-making, resource allocation and delivery, program development, and strategic planning

While position responsibilities vary, every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by communicating across differences; being cooperative, collaborative, open, and welcoming; showing respect, compassion, and empathy; engaging and supporting others regardless of background or perspective; speaking up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and supporting work/life integration of oneself and others.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 3 – 5 years of experience in curriculum development, program management, assessment, data management and evaluation or equivalent combination of education and experience

• Experience and confidence working with diverse faculty and student