Position Description

The Associate Dean of Students – Group Behavior and Development for the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards (OSCCS) reports to the Senior Associate Dean of Students and Director of OSCCS and serves as a member of the office’s leadership team. The Associate Dean supports the collaborative development, management, and evaluation of the university’s student conduct system and cases arising out of the Code on a campus of 24,000 students and over 1,000 student organizations, including a robust Greek life presence. This position leads all aspects of the conduct process related to student groups and organizations (e.g., fraternities, sororities, living groups, athletic teams, and clubs), including case management, and resolution options (investigation and adjudication, alternative dispute resolution, including restorative practices). In this work, the Associate Dean utilizes an educational and restorative approach in managing and resolving student organization conduct concerns. The Associate Dean also leads collateral areas of OSCCS, including departmental assessment, the development of all educational, alternative, restorative resolution options, and manages the conduct data management system. Additionally, this position supervises direct reports in their assigned area and serves in an Administrator on-call rotation responding to crisis-related situations after-hours, including navigating high-level issues of physical and psychological safety.

This position is an in-person role but can work remotely for (3) months to support relocation needs. 

Position Requirements

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree and a minimum of five (5) years of progressive experience in College Student Personnel Administration, Higher Education, Educational Leadership, Counseling, or a closely related field with three (3) years of direct experience in student conduct. 
• Demonstrated experience working with college student conduct systems, including intake, investigation, adjudication, and sanctions.
• Experience with adjudicating policy violations by student organizations, including specifically, social Greek organizations, including experience collaborating with national headquarters and advisors.
• Experience working with an educational and restorative approach to student conduct issues, including experience with alternative dispute resolutions and restorative practices. 
• Ability to serve on-call and respond to crisis situations according to organizational protocol, including evening and weekend work as required.
• Experience supervising, developing, and motivating a team. 
• Experience building collaborative partnerships with faculty, staff, students, parents/families, and community partners.
• Experience developing and implementing training and behavior prevention efforts.
• Experience developing and implementing a sanctions curriculum focused on personal and organization development, accountability, and resource access. 
• Experience working in a quasi-legalistic student conduct process. 
• Familiarity with higher education legal issues, including HEOA, FERPA, and Clery. 
• Ability to occasionally work nights and weekends (i.e., conduct hearing, training, and prevention education sessions, etc.) 

Salary Information: $91,932.00 - $112,361.00

Application Link to Position Posting: https://jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WDR-00055733