Responsibilities

• Coordinate and promote LRC language initiatives and programs to increase student awareness and participation.
• Develop and maintain contacts across the university and broader community to support outreach and program promotion.
• Assist with the implementation of the LRC’s social media strategy and create engaging content to promote programs and events.
• Serve as staff advisor to LRC student organizations.
• Collaborate with student assistants on advocacy and outreach campaigns highlighting the importance of language learning and intercultural competence.
• Attend and, when appropriate, co-coordinate events such as International Fair, student orientations, and other related programs.
• Support additional LRC initiatives and projects as needed.

Requirements

• An Associate’s degree and 2-4 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. Excellent level of intercultural competence is required.
• Strong communication, writing, and presentation skills, with an emphasis on interpersonal interactions.
• Aptitude to work effectively in a dynamic, deadline-driven, complex, team-based environment with multiple competing priorities.
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, and detail-oriented skills. Strong collaboration and listening skills.
• Social media and sharing platforms experience.
• Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members.

Preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in a related area.
• Experience as language student.
• Visual media skills (specifically, Google Suite, Canva).

Benefits

• This position is based in Ithaca, New York and fully on-site.
• Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives.
• Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, access to wellness programs, and employee discounts with local and national retail brands. We invite you to follow this link to get more information about our benefits: Understand Your Benefits | Working at Cornell.
• Our leave provisions include health and personal leave, three weeks of vacation and 13 holidays: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and an end of the year winter break from December 25-January 1. To offer greater flexibility for observing faiths and traditions we also offer two additional floating holidays. Learn more about our generous leave provisions: Holiday and Accrued Time Off | Working at Cornell
• Cornell's impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, tuition aid for external education, and Cornell Children's Tuition Assistance Program. Learn more about our extensive educational benefits: Education Benefits | Working at Cornell
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