Job Description:

Cornell University embraces diversity and seeks candidates who will contribute to a climate that supports students, faculty and staff of all identities and backgrounds. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply.

Cornell requires that all faculty and staff members, regardless of their work location, disclose their vaccination status, and provide proof of vaccination if vaccinated, immediately upon hire.

Founded in 1887, Cornell Law School is a top-tier law school, currently ranked 13th by U.S. News & World Report. We offer a 3-year JD program for about 200 students per class, a one-year LLM program for over 100 students from countries throughout the world, and a doctoral (JSD) program for about 2-3 new students per year. Cornell Law School has approximately 40 tenured and tenure-track faculty, including 20 with chaired faculty positions; and 15 clinical professors in the legal research and writing program and in clinics at the local, national, and international level. Our faculty is consistently ranked among the top in the country for scholarly productivity and influence, and has pre-eminence in many areas, including quantitative and qualitative empirical legal studies, international and comparative law, and robust doctrinal scholarship in core fields. Our school is committed to being recognized as the leader among law schools at combining inspiring theoretical, doctrinal, and experiential teaching with cutting-edge scholarship in a supportive, intellectually rich community, so that our graduates can achieve excellence in all facets of the legal profession.

About the Institute:

The Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship at Cornell is a collaboration between Bank of America and Cornell University to deliver an online learning program that provides women entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge and resources to build, manage, and scale successful businesses. The online program is offered via the eCornell platform at no cost to participants and the curriculum was created by professors from Cornell. The current mission of the Institute is to bring over 50,000 students through the program over the next several years.

The Institute is a lean organization that has a dotted line relationship with eCornell (which hosts the online certificate program). The Institute is responsible for maintaining student engagement, monitoring student performance and feedback, improving course materials to flex to changing student needs and to think strategically about how to best support the women in the program (85+% of whom identify as women of color) as they continue their education, build their networks and launch their businesses after completing the 12-week program.

What you will do:

Reporting to the Program Director, the Program Coordinator for the Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurship focuses on course operations, special programs, communications, and engagement with program facilitators, students, and applicants. Duties include the following:

• Tracking performance of the 30+ eCornell facilitators assigned to the Women's Entrepreneurship certificate program.




• Interfacing with eCornell Course Operations, Helpdesk and Student Success Services to develop strategies to reduce student incomplete rates, increase certificate completion and standardize facilitator messaging/quality across the program.




• Engaging with the 50,000+ students in the program.




• Coordinate bi-weekly reminder emails to students to alert them to upcoming course work.




• Developing engagement strategies for students and program graduates, including networking events.




• Creating quarterly "brag books" to distribute to Cornell and Bank of America personnel highlighting student achievements.

This is grant funded position for a one-year term at 75% of full-time. Reappointment for an additional one-year term may be possible based on performance and funding availability. This position maybe available for remote work. Occasional travel (a few times a year) may be required.

What we need:

• Bachelor's degree and 2-4 years of experience, or equivalent combination.




• Familiarity with entrepreneurship and/or entrepreneurship education.




• Excellent written and oral communication skills, along with organizational, planning, time management, interpersonal skills.




• Ability to work independently and autonomously without direct supervision.




• Resolve problems, using sound judgment, and relay information appropriately and consistently.




• Ability to interact well with diverse populations, and build professional and trusted relationships with colleagues at the University, students enrolled in the program, and Bank of America personnel.

We'd prefer experience with website posting (WordPress), digital media capture and storage (Kaltura), social media platforms (Facebook and LinkedIn) and online education platforms (Canvas).

Rewards & Benefits:

• Cornell provides great benefits that include educational benefits, access to a plethora of wellness programs, employee discounts with local and national retail brands, health care options to choose from, generous paid leave provisions: 3 weeks of vacation, 12 holidays (including end of year winter break through New Year's Day) and superior retirement contributions.




• Cornell has also been nationally recognized as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives. For more information, follow the link. Benefits at Cornell.

To apply:

• please submit BOTH a cover letter and a resume.

No relocation assistance or visa sponsorship is provided for this position

University Job Title:

Coord Program I

Job Family:

Student Services

Level:

E

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Company:

Endowed

Contact Name:

Liz Flint

Number of Openings:

1

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• Prior relevant work or industry experience.




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• Unique applicable skills.

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