The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) is a unit in the Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Innovation (VPAI). The CTI partners with the Cornell teaching community to explore and foster inclusive, evidence-based teaching practices. We facilitate the development of vibrant, challenging and reflective student-centered learning experiences. Our vision is a Cornell teaching community that embraces the research on learning, catalyzes innovative instructional practices, and creates learning environments where every student can thrive.
The Opportunity
The Teaching Support Specialist (TSS) will work under the leadership of an Associate Director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and will deepen pedagogical development for teachers at all stages of their career, with a particular focus on graduate students. The TSS will work to promote inclusive, evidence-based, and innovative teaching throughout the university. They will collaborate with colleagues and with CTI Graduate Teaching Fellows to develop, implement, and assess programs that support the development and deepening of teaching skills for graduate students and prepare them for careers as future faculty.
The teaching support specialist will work with the CTI’s Graduate Program to support all graduate teaching assistants and contribute to CTI’s faculty development initiatives supporting CTI’s mid-semester feedback program.
In this role, candidates can expect to:
Design, develop and facilitate a range of teaching development programs for graduate students, including workshops, institutes, learning communities and department collaborations.
Contribute to the administration and evaluation of graduate programming at Cornell. Additional responsibilities may include developing and teaching courses on pedagogy in higher education.
Support CTI’s mid-semester feedback program, course observations, department workshops, individual consultations, and other efforts
The Center is a large, highly collaborative group, and the TSS will interact with colleagues who have a wide range of skills and experiences.
This position has the option for a hybrid work arrangement: 3 days in person and 2 days work from home. The New York Convenience of employer guidelines require New York State individual tax reporting and withholdings for this position. Additional individual state income tax filings may also be required if working temporarily outside New York State. The university reserves the right to modify, suspend, revoke or terminate the hybrid work arrangement at any time.
We are looking for a team member who has:
-Passion for working in an organization that values and promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and well-being.
-Ability to cultivate inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members.
-Strong interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills with the ability to engage diverse audiences.
-Demonstrated resourcefulness and initiative with the ability to learn and adapt.
-Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, deadline-driven, team-based environment with multiple competing priorities.
-Excellent project management skills with attention to detail and accuracy.
-Strong ability to set priorities, work independently, and contribute as part of a team.
The successful candidate must have:
-Master’s degree with 3-5 years of relevant experience, including higher education teaching experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
-Experience in or demonstrated commitment to supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
-Knowledge of current educational practices in faculty and graduate student development, teaching, and assessment.
-Proven collaboration and communication skills.
-Experience participating in or working with graduate training programs.
If you possess these experiences this may be the role for you! In addition, having a PhD. and teaching experience in higher education as the instructor of record would be viewed as incredibly helpful in this role.
A resume or CV and a cover letter are required for further consideration for this position.
Rewards and Benefits
Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, sustainability, and diversity initiatives.
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.
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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.
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.
There is no Visa sponsorship available for this position. There is no relocation assistance available for this position.
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