Studio Director, Cornell Tech (NYC)
Studio Director, Cornell Tech (NYC)
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About Cornell Tech
Cornell Tech is a graduate campus of Cornell University that brings together faculty students business leaders and tech entrepreneurs in a catalytic environment to reinvent the way we live in the digital age.
A hallmark of Cornell Tech is a rapid pace of change and growth which serve as opportunities to pursue excellence and improvement not merely scale. We iterate to learn quickly from our activities and to improve our programs and ways of working. We further expect our organizational structure to continue to change given the pace of our activities and programs and our iterative learning process. We see Cornell Tech serving as a model organization for our students demonstrating the operations of a highly effective dynamic informationage organization.
About Studio
Cornell Techs Studio is the signature differentiator of the eight (8) masters degree programs at Cornell Tech. All 400 of Cornell Techs masters students participate in a practically oriented multidisciplinary teambased curriculum corresponding to eight credits across two semesters. In the Studio students work in multiprogram teams to learn and practice userdriven tech industry development processes creating prototypes of digitalenabled products and services. Students engage with endusers companies nonprofits and government agencies in creating prototypes of digitally enabled solutions to realworld challenges getting vital feedback and ideas from fellow students as well as faculty and practitioners from the NYC tech community via a variety of formats including flippedclassroom lectures crits scrums sprints and more.
For information about Cornell Tech please visit . Information on Studio is available at Summary
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 ideal candidate has a flexible entrepreneurial spirit thrives in a startup environment has the ability to connect academic culture and curriculum to realworld digital culture and excels in developing and managing relationships. This position requires occasional work on evenings and weekends particularly during the academic year.
The Studio Director is responsible for the overall successful operations of the Studio. This has several important groups of activities: (1) developing vetting and managing external relationships with 100s of companies organizations and individual practitioners who ensure the realworld relevance of the Studio; (2) supporting visiting lecturers to teach practitionerled classes (in coordination with academics); (3) supporting students in all needs they have in the Studio especially resolving team conflict; (4) working with and supporting Studio coaches as teaching assistants to extend Studio teaching capacity; (5) orchestrating logistics for frequent class and event formats for 400 students and 100 practitioners; (6) coordinating the efforts of multiple instructors and ensuring all curriculum materials are complete and errorfree; (7) engaging with other groups within Cornell Tech to apply aspects of the Studio curriculum and operations e.g. Runway Break Through Tech; (8) overseeing and executing 2 flagship campus Open Studio events with up to 1000 attendees each; (9) managing the Startup Awards process in which Cornell Tech invests in up to 5 student teams to continue their efforts postgraduation; (10) operating all of the above within established budget parameters; and (11) liaising with faculty and staff to ensure Studio activities are coordinated with other campus events. The Studio Director has currently a staff of four fulltime employees and many parttime student workers.
Successful candidates will need to have and display the following competencies as part of this role:
Builds networks Effectively building formal and informal relationship networks inside and outside the organization
Strategic mindset Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies
Directs work Providing direction delegating and removing obstacles to get work done
Manages ambiguity Operating effectively even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear
Essential Functions Include
Oversee the Studio: 30%
- Develop and deliver a strategy for the successful operations of the Studio; act as steward for organization solicitation and implement Studio programming
- Build and supervise the Studio team: plan and manage the work of staff and volunteers/students/temps
- Partner with faculty to ensure curricular alignment with practitioners and with activities across the Studio
- Manage the Studio program including guest speakers crits Maker Days etc.
- Ensure Studio teams have adequate support mechanisms including conflict resolution related to their work in the Studio
- Evolve and scale the Studio program as Cornell Tech continues to expand
- Lead the development and execution of programs for peertopeer mentorship
- Develop strategic communications for students and practitioners
- Oversee the setup and operations of the physical Studio collaborating with facilities and other groups
- Collaborate with Strategic Communications on content marketing for Studio programs and outcomes
- Manage the design of the Studio CRM solution to track engagement with practitioners and companies
- Responsible for solicitation and evaluation of Product Challenge proposals from companies
- Solicit and steward big companies to participate in BigCo Studio
- Direct the Open Studio and other major events each semester
- Continuously look for ways to improve the content and quality of the program
- Engage with other functions at Cornell Tech to apply components of the Studio curriculum (e.g. Runway Break Through Tech)
Relationship Management: 35%
Develop relationships with global organizations and practitioners:
- Develop and execute a comprehensive engagement strategy for large organization participation in the Studio at Cornell Tech continually assessing and refining strategy in line with the Studios growth
- Lead and actively participate in solicitation of organizations and practitioners regarding engagement opportunities
- Evaluate assess and determine feasibility of engagement proposals from organizations and practitioners; establish implementation approach
- Cultivate and continuously build a diverse portfolio of relationships within startups businesses nonprofits etc. and with entrepreneurs product managers engineering managers etc.
- Analyze and determine connectivity of organizations and practitioners to relevant engagement opportunities in the Studio and at Cornell Tech broadly
- Oversee develop and execute programs for studenttopractitioner mentorship
- Collaborate streamline and enhance procedures with other Cornell Tech departments to gain efficiencies
- Continuously enhance and foster relationships between Cornell Tech and NYC tech communities
Manage actively engaged organizations and practitioners:
- Define and implement strategy for maintaining and reengaging practitioners and organizations as programs scale and grow yearoveryear
- Recruit organizations and practitioners for a variety of engagements each semester including Product Challenges and crits
- Manage actively engaged practitioners including onboarding communications engagements quality assessment feedback etc.
- Develop and operate systems to coordinate engagements between students and practitioners
- Manage and ensure all contact information and engagements are accurately recorded and updated in the CRM
- Oversee and design practitioner appreciation events
- Solicit donations from actively engaged organizations in collaboration with Development to support the Studios unique curriculum
- Continuously enhance and improve and innovate practitioner engagement and mentorship
Program Management: 30%
- Oversee Studio programs by implementing events with external practitioners including guest speaker panels crits etc. and working with the Director of Studio Programming to support advanced scheduling and coordination of the Studio calendar
- Present detailed information to students and external practitioners at events such as crits Maker Days orientation etc.
- Partner with leadership to review applications and determine Spring Studio student team participants for Startup BigCo and PiTech Studios
- Develop oversee and execute 2 flagship campus Open Studio events with up to 1000 attendees each
- Develop strategic communications for students and practitioners
- Design and execute the Startup Awards process in which Cornell Tech invests in up to 5 student teams to continue their efforts postgraduation: including running VC Days and judging sessions supporting execution of events and inviting guests to Spinout Clinics
- Recruit a diverse panel of judges and VC and facilitate a voting process to determine the Startup Award winners
- Coach student companies on presenting and pitching to an external audience
- Lead efforts to deliver and scale the Public Interest Tech (PiTech) Studio
- Strategize how to improve and scale the program as a whole both by independently providing timely feedback and suggestions and by leading retrospective sessions with the team at the end of each term
- Develop manage and oversee budget
Other positionrelated responsibilities:5%
- Participate in projects with occasional work responsibility falling above or below current classification.
Required Qualifications
Masters degree and 35 years experience or equivalent combination
Work experience in either an academic or corporate setting coordinating or managing student services event planning training or program development and implementation
Strong communication relationship building and interpersonal skills
Ability to take a leadership role in being a public spokesperson for the program and thrive when focused on finding and developing relationships
Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students faculty staff and community members.
Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment to supporting inclusion and wellbeing.
Proven ability to manage in a team context as well as the ability to be effective when working independently
Demonstrable technical skills and experience with standard desktop tools including Microsoft Office Google Workspace (G Suite) Zoom and Slack and ability to operate cloudbased tools including Airtable Mailchimp Adobe Sign/DocuSign etc.
Demonstrable ability to oversee CRM tools (e.g. Salesforce)
Preferred Qualifications
Additional years of relevant experience
Culture Of Inclusion and Community Standards
As a university founded to be a place where any person can find instruction in any study inclusion and belonging are at the core of our values and mission. We strive to be a welcoming caring healthy 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
As a people manager and university leader you will model and support a culture of inclusion belonging and wellbeing by fostering an environment where everyone has the ability to thrive and navigate work and lifes challenges because they feel like they belong and have the tools and support they need.
While position responsibilities vary greatly the Skills for Success and Leadership Skills for Successare foundational to what is expected ofevery employee and leader working at Cornell. These skills are essential for individual and organizational success. Staff Skills for Success; Leadership Skills for Success
Rewards And Benefits
Competitive compensation generous timeoff and great benefits More on Cornell Benefits
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