Assistant Director Sorority Fraternity Life and MGFC Advisor

Student and Campus Life (SCL) inspires transformation in all Cornell students on their journey of individual academic and personal evolution. Our division is comprised of leading student affairs experts who support our campus on pressing student life matters including public service health wellness social justice residential living food services sports recreation career services and student activities and organizations including sorority and fraternity life. We provide support and services to roughly 25000 undergraduate graduate and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad.

Campus and Community Engagement provides a welcoming and inclusive community that respects the individual while promoting community values. We are dedicated to supporting students thrive in all stages of their Cornell career through student organization involvement learning opportunities and a multitude of leadership and engagement experiences.

Campus and Community Engagement (CCE) includes a broad range of departments dedicated to enriching the student experience outside of the classroom. Together with colleagues from across campus CCE builds a community and creates cocurricular opportunities where the intrinsic value and worth of the individual is affirmed and community standards and values are upheld. These are the foundational goals of all CCE programs.

Sorority & Fraternity Life (SFL) provides support and resources to the 53 recognized sorority and fraternity organizations at Cornell which is composed of over 3000 undergraduate students. SFL supports student leaders and their communities as they cultivate an inclusive meaningful innovative and developmental cocurricular sorority and fraternity experience. With a focus on individual and community health & wellbeing through advocacy and innovation we will collaborate with empower and support student leaders. Members will engage in developmental cocurricular experiences to create and foster ethical inclusive and meaningful communities.

The Assistant Director for Sorority & Fraternity Life (SFL) serves as a member of the SFL team contributing to the overall strategic planning and is the primary Multicultural Greek and Fraternal Council (MGFC) advisor. Our MGFC community is proud to include three individual Alpha chapters and is the birthplace of the first historically Black intercollegiate Greekletter fraternity. The NHPC NALFO and NAPA organizations are all represented in our MGFC community. In this role the Assistant Director advises student leaders in council program planning community service coordination recruitment and intake planning and building relationships with other Cornell community student groups and departments with shared missions.

This role will also serve as a chapter coach supporting a portfolio of approximately 15 universityrecognized sororities and fraternities across all three governing councils (IFC PHC and MGFC). They will help student leaders through officer training/transition chapter goal setting leadership development risk management education health and wellbeing initiatives and the promotion of diversity equity and inclusion. This position will collaborate with the overall SFL team to develop implement and evaluate educational programs and services for the sorority and fraternity community as well as coplan and oversee small and largescale events.

In addition this position serves as a rotating Administrator OnCall for the University managing afterhours crisisresponse situations and will actively engage across Campus and Community Engagement (CCE) and Student and Campus Life (SCL) by serving on teams committees and workgroups as needed.

Success Factors

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to develop and build strong relationships with various stakeholders including students alumni staff parents livein advisors community members and campus partners creating an atmosphere of partnership within sorority and fraternity life. They will occasionally represent the Director and Associate Director and must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. This role must have strong leadership coaching mentoring and planning skills to forward the strategic initiatives of Sorority & Fraternity Life which are coaching communication and educational training and programs. They will infuse inclusive practices to support an increasingly diverse community.

Please note: This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Student Affairs or related field and 23 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated experience in sorority and fraternity advising specifically with culturally based sororities and fraternities program/event planning leadership development alcohol education and/or hazing prevention as well as recruitment and intake best practices.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders through discussion presentation or facilitation.
• Desire to work in a team oriented and collaborative environment and maintain relationships with key stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
• Ability to serve oncall and respond to crisis situations according to organizational protocol including evening and weekend work as required.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity and inclusion education and infusion practices.
• Willingness to work irregular and flexible hours including some evenings and weekends.
• Ability to serve oncall and respond to crisis situations according to organizational protocol including evening and weekend work as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Student Affairs or a related field.
• Membership in a collegiate sorority or fraternity.
• Previous experience working with or advising sororities and fraternities.
• Experience working with key stakeholders such as headquarter staff and alumni advisors as well as other university departments supporting the work of sororities and fraternities.
• An indepth knowledge of current trends and best practices in higher education regarding sororities and fraternities.

University Job Title:

Student Svc Assoc II

Job Family:

Student Services

Level:

F

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Pay Range:

$68445.00 $74958.00

Remote Option Availability:

Onsite

Company:

Endowed

Contact Name:

Shallena Cunningham

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