Temporary Academic Advising Associate (Hybrid)

Cornell Bowers Undergraduate Student Services is hiring a Temporary Student Services Specialist-Senior to support the college's increasing undergraduate enrollments. The successful candidate will join a team of Bowers professional staff advisors and other students services professionals dedicated to using holistic advising to support, develop, coach, and empower the college's more than 2,000 undergraduate majors who hail from three distinct Cornell admitting colleges-Arts & Sciences (A&S), the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and the College of Engineering (COE).

Consistent with the University's recent Mental Health Review, this position will embrace the conviction that high-quality advising plays a critical role in nurturing student growth, resilience, connection, and overall health and well-being. Using a holistic, developmental advising approach, the successful candidate will actively advise and coach a portfolio of ~400 Bowers majors, as well as potential majors and minors (including freshmen) and internal and external transfer students, on a one-on-one basis.

In addition to advising, the selected candidate will be a key member of the Bowers undergraduate student services team that is focused on building a shared Bowers undergraduate culture and identifying opportunities to enhance the Bowers undergraduate student experience. This includes actively contributing to the development, implementation, and review of new initiatives and programming related to the first-year experience (when most students are pre-major), new majors' onboarding, experiential learning, and student retention, success, belonging, and well-being.

What We Need

The successful candidate will be empathetic, student-success-and-wellbeing-oriented professionals with the interpersonal, problem-solving, and organizational skills required to successfully advise and 3 manage a portfolio of ~400 individual student advisees, while thinking systemically about how to improve student experience and outcomes. Additionally, they must possess:

• A bachelor's degree and two to four years' experience as an academic advisor or related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• A demonstrated ability to connect and work with students of all backgrounds and experience levels.
• Strong communication skills, especially listening, writing, and public speaking.
• Ability to work collaboratively win individuals at all levels of an academic environment: students, staff, faculty, directors of undergraduate study, department chairs, deans, and alumni.
• The agility to balance significant complexity and competing demands.
• Strong technical skills and aptitude for learning new technology.
• Experience exercising a high degree of discretion in dealing with confidential information in accordance with university policies and FERPA regulations.
• The flexibility to work occasional evening, and/or weekend programs or events.

If you possess these experiences and skills this may be the role for you! There are a few other qualifications we would view s incredibly helpful in this role, to include:

• A master's degree or coursework in higher education administration, counseling, social work, leadership development, or related fields.
• Five or more years' advising or related higher education experience.
• Experience with program, delivery, and outcomes thinking.
• Experience with Client Relationship Management systems and/or student information systems, including Salesforce CRM, FileMaker Pro, and/or Peoplesoft.

Important Notes About Applying

• A cover letter and resume outlining your interest and how your experience and goals align with the potential for mutual success in the role are required for consideration.
• There is no visa sponsorship available for this position.
• This is a full-time, non-benefits eligible position effective immediately to October 20, 2025.
• Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Starting Pay

$68,445 per year

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