Founded in 1887, Cornell Law School is a top-tier law school, currently ranked 13th by U.S. News & World Report. We offer a 3-year JD program for about 200 students per class, a one-year LLM program for about 90 students from countries throughout the world, and a doctoral (JSD) program for about 2-3 new students per year. Cornell Law School has 41 tenured and tenure-track faculty, including 20 with chaired faculty positions; and 15 clinical professors in the legal research and writing program and in clinics at the local, national, and international level. Our faculty is consistently ranked among the top in the country for scholarly productivity and influence, and has pre-eminence in many areas, including quantitative and qualitative empirical legal studies, international and comparative law, and robust doctrinal scholarship in core fields. Our school is committed to being recognized as the leader among law schools at combining inspiring theoretical, doctrinal, and experiential teaching with cutting-edge scholarship in a supportive, intellectually rich community, so that our graduates can achieve excellence in all facets of the legal profession.

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 clerkship recommendation letter process by editing letters, corresponding with recommendation writers, and overseeing an administrative assistant's work in support of this process.
• 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, as an individual contributor you will model and support a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and wellbeing and continually seek to understand how your role, behaviors, and actions impact the success of this culture.

What We Need

• Bachelor's degree and 5-7 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.
• Experience in supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.
• Demonstrated skill in understanding of cultural differences.
• Proven experience connecting diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing practices to business goals.

If you possess these experiences and skills this may be the role for you! There are a few other qualifications that we would view as incredibly helpful in this role, to include:

• 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 located in Ithaca, New York and currently allows the flexibility for a hybrid schedule.
• 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 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.

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