Communications Specialist

About the role

The Cornell AI Initiative is a university-wide effort to advance Cornell’s leadership in research and education in artificial intelligence, while creating, applying, and evaluating human-centered AI as a tool across the university.

Responsibilities

• Managing the Initiative’s digital ecosystem — including ai.cornell.edu — ensuring content is current, accurate, and strategically aligned with initiative priorities.
• Maintaining and continuously improving expert profiles, program pages, and core website content.
• Timely and coordinated promotion of events, announcements, and research outputs across initiative digital channels.
• Leading the amplification strategy for the Cornell AI Initiative across all initiative-owned platforms, ensuring research, events, and faculty expertise reach priority audiences with clarity and impact.
• Scheduling, speaker coordination, AV, and promotional materials for Thought Summits and sponsored events.
• Tracking, analyzing, and reporting on performance metrics across digital platforms, newsletters, and campaigns, and translating data into actionable insights to refine content strategy, audience targeting, and channel effectiveness.

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree plus 2-4 years of full-time work experience in strategic communications, preferably in higher education, research, or technology.
• Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills.
• Demonstrated creativity and ability to handle multiple projects while meeting concurrent deadlines.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong and collaborative working relationships with key constituencies.
• Creative problem solving and the ability to network and build positive relationships with a wide variety of individuals within the College and University.
• Knowledge of AP style writing and editing.
• Experience with Drupal and WordPress.

Qualifications

The successful candidate must have a Bachelor’s degree plus 2-4 years of full-time work experience in strategic communications, preferably in higher education, research, or technology. Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills. Demonstrated creativity and ability to handle multiple projects while meeting concurrent deadlines. Ability to establish and maintain strong and collaborative working relationships with key constituencies. Creative problem solving and the ability to network and build positive relationships with a wide variety of individuals within the College and University. Knowledge of AP style writing and editing. Experience with Drupal and WordPress.

Skills

Knowledge of AP style writing and editing. Experience with Drupal and WordPress.

Benefits

Cornell receives national recognition as an award-winning workplace for our health, wellbeing, and sustainability. The position is covered under the ENDOWED benefits program. 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: Understand Your Benefits | Working at Cornell.

Pay

$65,447.00 - $74,056.00

Schedule

Hybrid