Position Description

The Human Resource Studies department in the ILR School at Cornell University is seeking to hire a full-time lecturer/senior lecturer to teach HR-related courses in undergraduate and graduate degree programs on Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca, New York and set to begin in Fall 2025.

We welcome candidates with expertise and teaching experience in any area(s) of human resource management, including but not limited to talent acquisition, people analytics, compensation, performance management, training and development, HR leadership, global HR, or diversity.

Qualifications:

• A Ph.D. in Human Resource Management or a related field by the appointment date.
• Prior college-level teaching experience.

Responsibilities:

• Teach five (5) semester-long courses per year across the fall and spring semesters.
• Engage in classroom or laboratory instruction.
• Hold scheduled office hours to meet with students.
• Grade assignments and examinations.
• Contribute to the design, syllabi, and organization of departmental course offerings.
• Stay current with applications and developments in pedagogy in the field.

Lecturers who have served for several years may be asked to assume administrative responsibilities for departmental course offerings or to train and supervise less experienced colleagues. Senior lecturers often carry additional administrative duties, including developing independent or team-taught courses, producing teaching materials and methodologies, and training or supervising lecturers and teaching associates. Rank and length of term will be determined based on education and experience.

In compliance with New York's Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $51,300 - $164,300. Cornell University considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer.

The ILR School is committed to professional development and promotion pathways for non-tenure-track faculty and provides generous research, teaching, and professional development support.

About the ILR School: Cornell’s ILR School is a leading institution of applied social sciences focusing on work, employment, and labor policy issues in the U.S. and internationally. The School offers undergraduate and graduate education in addition to career-long learning for professionals. ILR is comprised of five departments (including Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Studies, Global Labor and Work, Statistics and Data Science, and Economics) that operate in a highly collaborative and collegial environment.

The Human Resource Studies department is a vibrant intellectual hub connecting research and practice. Offering unparalleled coverage of human resource management, we bring together scholars, students, and industry leaders to address contemporary workplace issues. Our faculty are recognized HR experts coming from a range of disciplinary perspectives including human resource management, industrial relations, management, psychology, sociology and strategy. All are routinely publishing in our field’s top journals. They serve as journal editors and editorial board members and hold leadership roles across campus and within the profession. The department is home to the Center for Advanced Human Resource Studies and the Institute for Compensation Studies that facilitate connections to practitioners.

You can learn more about our faculty and this department by using this link https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/academics/departments/human-resource-studies

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, vita, teaching statement, statement describing experiences with and/or planned approaches to working with diverse communities in research, teaching, service, and/or outreach in support of Cornell’s founding principle of “…any person…any study”, sample syllabi, teaching evaluations, and the names of three potential references. Letters of reference will only be sought from finalists for the position.

This is an academic, full-time, non-tenured track, benefits eligible term appointment, located in Ithaca New York. The initial appointment will be for three years with possibility of renewal, title to be commensurate with experience and qualifications. 

Application Deadline is March 21, 2025.