Architecture Department Manager

The Opportunity:

The Department Manager directs the day-to-day operations of the Department of Architecture, collaborating with the Department Chair to develop and implement management strategies for short- & long-range fiscal, operational, and both academic and non-academic human resource areas. The Department Manager provides administrative expertise to 22 tenure-stream faculty, 7 RTE faculty, and 40-50 other academics, and stewards programs benefiting ~360 undergraduate students and ~150 graduate students. The person in this role also works cooperatively with the AAP Associate Dean for Administration and other department managers and resource stewards in the college, to build and sustain a culture of collaboration and continuous process improvement.

Key responsibilities:

• Establish, implement, evaluate, and optimize departmental operational policies and procedures, in conjunction with Chair. 
• Create and sustain partnerships with faculty and staff within the department and across the college.  
• Supervise administrative support staff and manage overall support staff structure. 
• Develop financial projections and strategies for discretionary and sponsored funding, as well as academic programmatic innovations, and collaborate on sponsored project administration and sponsored project proposal preparation. 
• Collaborate with college partners to ensure effective management of human resources needs, research programs, educational programs, information technology, and facilities/building operations. 

The Department Manager is the senior non-academic administrator for the Department of Architecture, leading a team of 4 administrative employees, and stewarding an annual operating budget totaling approximately $8M. The Department Manager reports directly, jointly, to the Department Chair and to the Associate Dean for Administration. This individual is accountable to the Associate Dean for college-level policies, protocols, and standards regarding financial management and sponsored program administration, and operations related to information technology, facilities, and human resources.

While position responsibilities vary, all people leaders are expected to foster a culture of belonging and a psychologically healthy work environment by being trustworthy; respecting all individuals; being flexible; supporting work/life integration as well as healthy boundaries; inviting new ideas, alternatives, and perspectives; speaking up and taking action if others are being excluded or treated inappropriately; and recognizing the contributions of others. 

About the Department of Architecture:

The Department of Architecture at Cornell dates to the founding of the institution; it is one of the oldest programs of its kind, and has a long and distinguished tradition of design, scholarship, and teaching. Degree programs in the department include a professional Bachelor of Architecture, professional Master of Architecture, post-professional Master of Science Degrees in Advanced Architectural Design and Advanced Urban Design, and a doctoral program in the History of Architecture and Urban Development. Cornell Architecture students and faculty benefit from the Material Practice Facilities in AAP and a world-renowned library collection, and participate in an expanded footprint that includes AAP NYC and Cornell in Rome. The department engages urgent global issues through a foundation of conceptual thinking and processes of making, and is committed to architectural practices informed by and embedding within evolving and dynamic social, environmental, and technical contexts.

About AAP:

The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University (Cornell AAP) is home to nearly 1000 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 approaches to designing, making, and doing that 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 change 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 College of Human Ecology, and Cornell Tech. The college is housed across three locations (Ithaca, New York City, and R