Director of Judicial Clerkships - Cornell Law School
Director of Judicial Clerkships - Cornell Law School
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$ 82738 - 101124
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Job Description
About Cornell Law School
The Opportunity
The Director of Judicial Clerkships oversees the clerkship process for Cornell Law School students and alumni applying to federal and state courts. The Director is responsible for the following:
Delivering comprehensive career advising to students and alumni interested in pursuing post-graduate clerkships with state and federal judges.
Enhancing clerkship opportunities through personal interactions with judges former clerks and faculty as well as networking with peer schools and colleagues nationwide.
Supervising on-campus and virtual events featuring state and federal judges.
Developing and presenting programs to educate candidates on employment opportunities with the judiciary.
Managing the annual clerkship recommendation letter process following requirements set by various federal and state judges. This includes reviewing recommendation letters from faculty and other writers to confirm requirements are met and ensuring letters are submitted by set deadlines.
Tracking and analyzing judicial clerkship outcomes to enhance clerkship advising and placement efforts.
Developing electronic resources including weekly eNewsletter and website content.
Serving on the Law School Clerkship Committee.
The Director also works with colleagues in JD student advising offices to coordinate career-development efforts programming and student support strategies.
While position responsibilities vary every member of our community is expected to foster a culture of belonging and a 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.
What We Need
Bachelors degree and 3-5 years of experience or equivalent professional experience in higher education administration or legal practice.
Thorough understanding of the legal field to facilitate the counseling of students and alumni.
Creativity and initiative to develop new programming and enhance existing offerings.
Organizational and analytical skills to capture and evaluate statistical data.
Strong interpersonal written and oral communication skills.
Ability to maintain tact under pressure.
Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive working relationships with students faculty staff and community members.
If you have all those things great! We have a few more things that we would prefer you to have but its ok if you dont.
JD or equivalent law school degree.
Prior service as a judicial law clerk highly desired.
Comprehensive understanding of the judicial-clerkship hiring process as well as career-counseling skills to assist clerkship applicants.
Leadership or engaged membership in NALP or similar industry organizations.
Experience in and knowledge of legal professional development programming.
Excel Qualtrics and web-content editing skills.
Rewards and Benefits
This position is eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. The university reserves the right to modify suspend revoke or terminate the hybrid work arrangement at any time.The New York Convenience of employer guidelines require New York State individual tax reporting and withholding for this position. Additional individual state income tax filings may also be required if working temporarily outside of New York State.
Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health wellbeing and sustainability.
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
Cornells impressive educational benefits include tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program tuition aid for external education and Cornell Childrens Tuition Assistance Program. Learn more about our extensive educational benefits: Education Benefits Working at Cornell
Follow this link to learn more about the Total Rewards of Working at Cornell:Total Rewards Working at Cornell.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
