Job Description

Student Life & Wellness Specialist

APPLY 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.
As a university founded to be a place where \xe2\x80\x9c\xe2\x80\xa6any person can find instruction in any study,\xe2\x80\x9d diversity and inclusion are at the core of our values and mission. We strive to be a welcoming, caring, healthy, and equitable community where students, faculty, and staff with different backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, and experiences can learn, innovate, and work in an environment of respect, and feel empowered to engage in any community conversation. As a member of the Cornell University community, it is important to recognize our shared responsibility to each other to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all. Cornell Core values: https://www.cornell.edu/about/values.cfm

As an individual contributor you will model and support a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and wellbeing and continually seek to understand how your role, behaviors, and actions impact the success of this culture.

While position responsibilities vary greatly, the Skills for Success and Leadership Skills for Success are foundational to what is expected of every employee and leader working at Cornell. These skills are essential for individual and organizational success.

Cornell Tech is Cornell University\xe2\x80\x99s groundbreaking campus for technology research and graduate education on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Our faculty, students and industry partners work together in a highly collaborative environment, pushing inquiry further and developing meaningful technologies to support societal needs. Founded in partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and the City of New York, Cornell Tech achieves global reach and local impact, extending Cornell University\xe2\x80\x99s long history of leading innovation in computing, engineering and related fields.

Founded in 2011, a hallmark of Cornell Tech is its rapid pace of change and growth, which serve as opportunities to pursue inclusion, excellence and improvement, not merely scale. We strive to learn quickly from our activities and iterate to improve our programs and ways of working. We further expect our organizational structure to continue to evolve, given the pace of our activities and programs and our iterative learning process. Cornell Tech aims to become a destination of choice for diverse talent as well as a leader in changing the technology sector to be more inclusive.

Competitive compensation, generous time-off, and great benefits. www.hr.cornell.edu/benefits/
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.

The Student Life & Wellness Specialist is a full-time, visible resource to Cornell Tech graduate and professional students as well as Ithaca-based Cornell undergraduate, graduate, and professional students who live and/or study on the Cornell Tech campus. Reporting to the Senior Director of Student and Academic Affairs at Cornell Tech, the position provides non-clinical student support, health referral, and crisis intervention, creates and implements proactive wellbeing programming and plays a lead role in student life programming in collaboration with the Assistant Director of Student & Academic Affairs including orientation, study breaks, team building, DEI events, PhD Visit Days, and the year-end Recognition Ceremony.
The candidate must be available evenings and weekends by phone and email for occasional student crises and to implement student events.
The Student Life & Wellness Specialist will:

• Provide day-to-day oversight of student well-being and support
• Be a visible campus resource enabling effective response to queries from students, staff, and faculty related to concerns about students in distress/crisis. While strong supportive relationships may develop with students, the position does not engage in individual therapeutic relationships or psychological counseling.
• Proactively identify, assess and establish formal relationships with local resources (both individuals and institutions) to provide excellent service directly to students in support of their wellbeing. Assist students in navigation of Cornell University and local NYC health and wellness resources, including health insurance.
• Serve as liaison to Cornell Health, Student Support & Advocacy Services, and Title IX in Ithaca
• Ensure student compliance with immunizations.
• Research, implement, deliver and assess workshops and programs for graduate students that focus on a proactive/preventative approach to support a healthy student life experience at Cornell Tech including peer mentorship programs.
• Support and collaborate with University resources to ensure appropriate training and education for the student community around topics including, but not limited to, stress management, resilience, sexual misconduct, positive relationships, and bystander intervention.

• Create and implement other student programming including orientation, study breaks, community building, socials, DEI, volunteer events, PhD Visit Days and the Recognition Ceremony in collaboration with Assistant Director of Student & Academic Affairs.
• Collaborate with staff on campus including Campus Safety & Security, Housing, Enrollment & Admissions, Studio, Career Management, and Safety & Security to support students.

Required Qualifications: Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in psychology, counseling, human development, social work, education, or related field and 2-3 years of related experience in a complex higher education setting.

• Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
• Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Knowledge of FERPA, HIPAA, Title IX, Cleary Act and other emergent issues pertaining to student support, including work with international students.
• Ability to work independently and autonomously without direct supervision and possess the ability to make sound judgment calls when necessary and relay information appropriately and consistently.
• Ability to advise students from various backgrounds, make referrals, set boundaries, and equip students with skills and strategies to engage in self-advocacy.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with colleagues, both within the organization and in the wider community, and at every level of an institution\xe2\x80\x99s hierarchy.
• Knowledge and experience with mental and physical health and wellness resources in NYC.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in psychology, counseling, human development, social work, education, or related field and/or additional relevant work experience. Advanced certification or license in mental health, social work or related field.

As part of the university\'s comprehensive vaccination program, all Cornell employees are required to have and provide proof of an FDA-or WHO-authorized or approved COVID-19 primary vaccination or have obtained a university-approved disability/medical or religious exemption, regardless of their role and work location.
University Job Title: Student Svc Assoc II Job Family: Student Services Level: F Pay Rate Type: Salary Pay Range: $65,391.00 - $84,832.00 Remote Option Availability: Hybrid Remote Company: Endowed Contact Name: Evelyn Gordon Number of Openings: 1 Job Titles and Pay Ranges: Non-Union Positions Noted pay ranges reflect the potential pay opportunity for each job profile. The hiring rate of pay for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

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• Unique applicable skills
• Academic Discipline (faculty pay ranges reflects 9-month annual salary)

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