Founded in 1887, Cornell Law School is a top-tier law school, currently ranked 14th 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 120 students from countries throughout the world, an MSLS program for about 100 online students, 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.

Enrollment representatives within Cornell’s colleges, schools, and units regularly collaborate and partner with the Enrollment Division to accomplish the University’s enrollment goals.

The Law Office of the Registrar assists in managing and coordinating enrollment services and academic programs associated with Law degrees. The Assistant Registrar is integral to the student services and supports the mission of the office to maintain and protect the academic records of current and former students. The position ensures accurate academic records, classroom scheduling, student enrollment data analysis, information support, and reporting for student services.

   

What you will do:

The Assistant Registrar is a vital member of the Law Registrar team. Reporting to the Law Registrar, the Assistant Registrar collaborates closely with the Senior Assistant Registrar, students, faculty, staff, and colleagues across campus, including the University Registrar on a wide array of activities. Duties including the following:

Leading the management and retention of student records, including reporting of all aspects of students’ status and creating academic documents.

Supervising the tracking of bar passages and submission of bar passage and other reports to the American Bar Association (ABA) and other external agencies.

Overseeing the certification of graduation and completion of requirements to bar examiners, including coordinating data tracking and reporting on student character and fitness.

Coordinating grade entry, as well as processing transfer credits and other related administrative responsibilities.

Overseeing the accuracy and accessibility of Office of the Registrar webpages.

Continually leveraging technology to advance office systems and processes consistent with current best practices to meet student, faculty, and administrative leadership expectations.

Ensuring compliance with various university, accrediting and government entities’ regulations.

Accurately disseminating sensitive and confidential information regarding student records in accordance with university and college policies and FERPA regulations.

What we need:

Bachelor’s Degree and 2-4 years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Proven ability to work independently with minimal supervision while supporting the efforts of an overall team.

Experience in student services and an understanding of student records administration, including knowledge of current records, registration, and enrollment policies and processes and academic policy trends.

Understanding of FERPA and knowledge of privacy and confidential rules as they relate to student information.

Strong commitment to delivering excellent customer service to students, faculty, staff, administration, and community members.

Proficient in using and formatting word processing, spreadsheet, and database packages.

This position will utilize a variety of school and university computer applications and complete multiple tasks involving a high level of accuracy.

Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and a high degree of accuracy, attention to detail, and the ability to handle confidential data.

Strong leadership skills and the ability to establish effective and productive working relationships.

Must be organized and able to manage competing priorities simultaneously while handling constant interruptions, ensuring accuracy and paying close attention to detail with timely completion.

Experience in and/or demonstrated commitment supporting diversity, equity, access, inclusion, and wellbeing.

Ability to cultivate and develop inclusive and equitable working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and community members.

If you possess these experiences and skills this may be the role for you! Other qualifications that we would view as incredibly helpful in this role would include:

Familiarity with university policies and procedures, and the role of the Registrar’s Office at both the university and Law School levels.

Familiarity with PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, 25Live, Exam4, Stellic, Workday, and CourseLeaf.

Supervisory experience.

Experience working in a Cornell student service office (such as OUR (Office of the University Registrar), Bursar, Financial Aid, Graduate School, or other college registrar office) or in a high activity office with a strong service orientation.

Rewards and Benefits

This position is located in Ithaca, New York requiring100% on-site presence.

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: https://hr.cornell.edu/benefits-pay.

Follow this link to learn more about the Total Rewards of Working at Cornell: https://hr.cornell.edu/jobs/your-total-rewards.

Our leave provisions include three weeks of vacation, 2 floating holidays 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.

Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position

   

University Job Title:

Assistant Registrar

Job Family:

Student Services

Level:

F

Pay Rate Type:

Salary

Pay Range:

$70,978.00 - $82,488.00

Remote Option Availability:

Onsite

Company:

Endowed

Contact Name:

Liz Flint

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2025-02-11