About the Role
This role serves as a Data and Systems Specialist within the Career Network, supporting both technical infrastructure and analytical needs. This position manages critical career technologies/platforms, oversees user access and onboarding processes in Handshake, and ensures system reliability across the Network. As a data leader, this individual will help drive high-quality data collection, governance, reporting, and analysis across multiple platforms—ensuring accuracy, consistency, and adherence to data security and confidentiality standards.
Responsibilities
- Manages critical career technologies/platforms.
- Oversees user access and onboarding processes in Handshake.
- Ensures system reliability across the Network.
- Drives high-quality data collection, governance, reporting, and analysis across multiple platforms.
- Ensures accuracy, consistency, and adherence to data security and confidentiality standards.
- Fosters a culture of belonging and a healthy work environment by communicating across differences.
- Is cooperative, collaborative, open, and welcoming.
- Shows respect, compassion, and empathy.
- Engages and supports others regardless of background or perspective.
- Speaks up when others are being excluded or treated inappropriately.
- Supports work/life integration of oneself and others.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree required with up to 2 years of related experience in managing data, data analytics, operations or an equivalent combination of experience and education is also acceptable.
- Demonstrated ability to perform somewhat complex analysis to understand as well as interpret process or data needs and make appropriate recommendations for action.
- Possess a strong attention for detail, excellent organizational and time management skills, as well a proactive approach in order to manage multiple, competing priorities/projects.
- Thrive in a collaborative and complex workplace, utilizing strong stakeholder relationship building skills as well as consensus-building skills in order to establish effective working relationship with multiple diverse teams or work groups.
- Demonstrated ability to handle confidential information, display sound judgement and ethics.
- Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members.
- Experience modeling values that support inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing.
Skills
- Intermediate knowledge of Excel, including pivot tables and working with large datasets.
- Fluency in standard software including Microsoft Office suite, reporting applications, data cleaning and analysis.
- Familiarity with Tableau or Power BI.
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
Experience Level
- Up to 2 years of related experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's degree in a related field: data analytics, data management, etc.
Salary/Compensations
- $31.73 - $36.88 per hour
About the Company
- Student & 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, wellbeing, connection and belonging, 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 25,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on multiple campuses in the U.S. and abroad.
- University Career Development (UCD) www.career.cornell.edu is under Cornell's Division of Student and Campus Life and part of the Cornell Career Network.
- Our comprehensive services are open to all students and alumni, and complement the services offered through career offices in the undergraduate colleges that are tailored to more college-specific academic and career goals.
- The Cornell Career Network is a collaborative, campus-wide ecosystem that helps students explore options, refine goals, and build skills and connections for success.
- Career development is coordinated through a hybrid model led by University Career Development, which oversees strategic planning and operations.
- The UCD team strategically leads a “One Cornell” approach to employer engagement, advising and education, with services and initiatives conducted in partnership with college and school-based teams across the university.
Equal Opportunity
- Cornell welcomes students, faculty, and staff with diverse backgrounds from across the globe to pursue world-class education and career opportunities, to further the founding principle of “... any person ... any study.” No person shall be denied employment on the basis of any legally protected status or be subjected to prohibited discrimination involving, but not limited to, such factors as race, ethnic or national origin, citizenship and immigration status, color, sex, pregnancy or pregnancy-related conditions, age, creed, religion, actual or perceived disability (including persons associated with such a person), arrest and/or conviction record, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression and/or identity, an individual’s genetic information, domestic violence victim status, familial status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
- Cornell University embraces diversity in its workforce and seeks job candidates who will contribute to a climate that supports students, faculty, and staff of all identities and backgrounds.
- We hire based on merit, and encourage people from historically underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply.
- Consistent with federal law, Cornell engages in affirmative action in employment for qualified protected veterans as defined in the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and qualified individuals with disabilities under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
- We also recognize a lawful preference in employment practices for Native Americans living on or near Indian reservations in accordance with applicable law.
