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With our main campus located in Ithaca, NY, Cornell's far-flung global presence includes the medical college's campuses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and Doha, Qatar, as well as the Cornell Tech campus located on Roosevelt Island in the heart of New York City.

We offer a rich array of services, programs and benefits to help employees advance in their career and enhance the quality of personal life, including employee wellness, workshops, childcare and adoption assistance, parental leave and flexible work options.

Cornell Human Ecology (CHE) explores the complexity of human life. We bring together a wide range of perspectives to understand the full context of the human experience and improve lives at every scale, from cells to society.

Our research and academic programs focus on the interaction of humans with their biological, economic, social and physical environments.

Using Cornell's far-reaching extension network and the college's translational research methods, we deliver our findings directly to communities and families, ensuring that our work reaches those who need it most.

The Residential Child Care Project (RCCP) is administered by the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR), which is located within Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology.

The BCTR mission is to improve professional and public efforts to understand and deal with risk and protective factors in the lives of children, youth, families, and communities that affect family strength, child wellbeing, and youth development.

Translational research, as defined by the College and the BCTR, is the systematic application of research findings into the development of innovative interventions, practices, and policies that may ultimately improve health and well-being.

The knowledge derived from these interventions feeds future research.

Our Mission

The mission is to improve the quality of care in residential settings and other child serving settings by designing, delivering, and evaluating programs and conducting translational research to inform and improve services for children and families, children, and young people living in group care settings.

While initially designed for residential programs, RCCP programs have been adapted for use in schools, juvenile justice programs, foster care, adoptive families, and community-based programs.

What You Will Do

This position will be responsible for processing travel reports for all RCCP staff as well as invoicing for RCCP training registrations (both individual and contractual), and hotel invoices for our trainings.

This position will also provide back up to other RCCP office staff as needed.

The successful candidate 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.

This is a fully onsite, benefits eligible, one-year renewable appointment.

No visa sponsorship or relocation assistance are provided for this position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in US without sponsorship. Employment will end upon the expiration of work authorization in the US.

Continued employment in this position is subject to eligibility to work in accordance with US immigration laws.

Required Qualifications

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

Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Passionate about working in an organization that values and promotes diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and wellbeing.

Associate degree and up to 2 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination.

Experience using travel systems like Concur for processing travel reports and managing travel expenses.

Strong attention to detail for creating accurate expense reports, verifying travel expenses, reconciling T&M card expenses, and ensuring reports are allocated to the correct accounts.

Experience in managing class / contract invoicing, including authorizing initial invoices, following up on overdue payments, and using databases for monitoring invoice statuses.

Experience auditing hotel invoices, ensuring accuracy, compiling audit forms, and submitting to financial services for payment.

Ability to independently respond to routine and non-routine inquiries, interact with various individuals and groups, and provide back up to office staff as needed.

Strong customer service skills to handle inquiries and provide support to both internal and external parties.

Preferred Qualifications :

Familiarity with Cornell’s travel system, policies, and procedures.

Benefits

Our benefits programs include comprehensive health care options, generous retirement contributions, access to wellness programs, and employee discounts with local and national retail brands.

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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.

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University Job Title :

Program / Extension Aide III

Job Family : Academic Support

Academic Support

Level : Pay Rate Type :

Pay Rate Type : Hourly

Hourly

Pay Range : $21.10 - $23.32

$21.10 - $23.32

Remote Option Availability :

Onsite

Company : Contract College

Contract College

Contact Name : Krassimira Hernandez

Krassimira Hernandez

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Unique applicable skills

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2024-06-20

Last updated : 2024-06-21