Architecture Travel and Finance Coordinator

The OpportunityThe Department of Architecture seeks a Finance and Operations Coordinator to join its administrative team. In this role, you will help advance departmental priorities by providing responsive, accurate support across three essential areas: financial transactions and travel, event coordination, and day-to-day office operations. You will work closely with faculty, students, staff, visitors, and colleagues across the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP).You will serve as a key resource for purchasing and other financial transactions, helping faculty and staff navigate relevant policies and procedures. Your work will include processing transactions, assisting with account reporting and reconciliations, researching discrepancies, coordinating procurement, and supporting the semesterly course-budget process. You will also help faculty and students plan course-related travel and field trips, arrange travel for department visitors, and maintain accurate records of related expenses.Beyond financial and travel support, you will plan and coordinate departmental events, from space and service requests to guest and vendor communication, while monitoring event expenses. You will help keep the office running smoothly by responding to inquiries, maintaining supplies and records, coordinating routine administrative needs, and connecting people with the right resources. Your welcoming, service-minded approach will shape the experience of those who interact with the department.This position offers opportunities to exercise sound judgment, work with considerable autonomy, learn new systems, and improve the way work gets done. You will collaborate with colleagues throughout the department and AAP, provide backup support when needed, and contribute ideas that make operations more effective and inclusive. As a member of the Cornell community, you will help foster a culture of belonging and a healthy work environment through respectful communication, collaboration, and care for others. About AAP: The College of Architecture, Art, and Planningat Cornell University (Cornell AAP) includes the departments of Architecture, Art, City and Regional Planning, the Paul Rubacha Department of Real Estate, jointly led by AAP and the SC Johnson College of Business, the multicollege Department of Design Tech, and the Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities. The college spans three locations in Ithaca, New York City, and Rome, Italy, each with world-class facilities and cutting-edge technologies. Cornell AAP is about acts of transformation. We are committed to reimagining and reshaping the world in new ways, every day. A vital college at one of the nation's foremost research universities, Cornell AAP brings faculty, staff, and students together from around the world to take up some of today's most urgent challenges and advance research, inquiry, and collaborative approaches to designing, making, and doing that make a more just and resilient future. About the Department of Architecture: The Department of Architecture dates to the founding of Cornell University. The department engages urgent global issues through a foundation of conceptual thinking and processes of making, and is committed to architectural practices informed by and embedding within evolving and dynamic social, environmental, and technical contexts. Degree programs include a professional Bachelor of Architecture, a professional Master of Architecture, post-professional Master of Science degrees in Advanced Architectural Design and Advanced Urban Design, and a doctoral program in the History of Architecture and Urban Development. Cornell Architecture students and faculty benefit from the Material Practice Facilities in AAP and a world-renowned library collection, and participate in an expanded footprint that includes AAP NYC and Cornell in Rome. What We Need* An associate's degree and 2-4 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combina