Job Req ID:  16644 

Director of PHutures 

General Summary/Purpose:

Johns Hopkins University has developed an ambitious vision to continue to integrate life design, experiential learning, and mentoring in the academic and co-curricular learning experience for all students and postdoctoral fellows. Under the leadership of Dr. Farouk Dey, the inaugural vice provost for integrative learning and life design, the university has announced the creation of three new departments and several new initiatives and mission that will ensure that every student and postdoctoral fellow will have the ability to pursue life purpose regardless of background, field of study, or social capital. Read more about this plan here. 

Reporting to the Vice Provost for Integrative Learning and Life Design with a dotted line to the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, the Director of PHutures will develop a vision, strategy, and plan for enhancing the professional development, life design, alumni connections, employer engagement, and career and mentoring opportunities for doctoral students and Postdoctoral fellows at Johns Hopkins University, with special attention to the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering. The Director will work collaboratively to develop programs, courses, events, content, and resources that enhance the experience and opportunities for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, particularly at the Homewood schools. 

Specific Duties & Responsibilities:

• Develop a vision, strategy, and plan that builds on the strategy of integrating life design, alumni connections, employer engagement, experiential learning, and mentoring into the academic and co-curricular experience for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.
• In complement to offerings provided through the Professional Development and Career Office (PDCO) of JHU’s East Baltimore campus, plan and execute courses, workshops, programs, content, and digital resources to help doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows achieve their life ambitions.
• Engage with faculty, alumni, and employers to increase professional development, mentoring, experiential learning, and career opportunities for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. 
• Cultivate and strengthen partnerships with colleagues across units, including, but not limited to, academic departments, academic advising, life design lab, alumni relations, and international services.
• Recommend and develop tools and resources for faculty to enhance their mentoring experience of doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. 
• Customize offerings and approaches given the unique needs of doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows based on areas of academic interests.
• Recommend the purchase and implementation of digital resources for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows across all JHU departments, schools and programs including vendor negotiation, installation of technology, and staff/faculty training.
• Hire, train, supervise, and motivate a team of life design educators to scale efforts for a positive life design and professional development experience for all doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.
• Develop strategic relationships with key academic leaders (deans, vice deans, program directors, faculty, etc.) to facilitate continuous needs assessment and the effective implementation of life design and professional development for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows.
• Meet regularly with administrators at the university whose offices also provide career and life design as well as mentoring and employer engagement to encourage coordination and identify the intersections of programs and initiatives.
• Collaborate with leaders of Hire Hopkins and Hopkins Connect to build and maintain a network of employers and mentors across various fields who can participate in courses, programs, and networking events.
• Coordinate with the office of institutional research and the vice provost for graduate and professional education to collect, analyze, and report outcomes data relative to doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows having a satisfactory professional development experience at Johns Hopkins University and achieving their life ambitions. 
• Engage in social media, digital outlets, academic and professional journals, and professional associations to establish an exciting brand, tell the story, and serve as a thought leader at Johns Hopkins University and in higher education.

The Ideal Candidate:

The ideal candidate is comfortable with co-working and flexible work arrangements. Our educators work within multiple offices and spaces on campus. Rather than assigning office or desk spaces to our teams, we have modernized our approach and assigned laptops and cell phones and expect that our teams can work from anywhere for the purpose of scaling our impact across the institution. For this model to work, the ideal candidate must present excellent skills in relationship development and engaging audiences in groups and via social media and digital outlets.

The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial, data and outcomes driven, strong in planning and execution, comfortable leading programs and interventions with groups, and enjoys developing relationships and connections with multiple stakeholders at once. Our new vision is focused on scalability of resources and services and does not utilize a one-on-one appointment model. For this transformation to work, traditional one-on-one counseling and coaching services are taking a backseat to a culture of scalable programs and interventions. Educators who thrive as counselors, advisors, and coaches and do not enjoy the intense focus on scalability and metrics may not be the best fit for this organization.

The ideal candidate is an effective user of social media and digital outlets to engage multiple audiences, strengthen individual and organizational brand, scale impact, and influence public opinion. Candidates who are not comfortable with the utilization of social media in a professional environment may not be a good fit for this organization.

The ideal candidate for this position will hold a terminal degree and have experience working with terminal-degree students and postdoctoral fellows.

Minimum Qualifications (Mandatory):

• Master’s degree required.
• 5 years recent direct experience within a higher education, government, non-profit, or corporate setting. Additional experience may substitute for education.
• The successful candidate will have proven leadership skills, knowledge of highly selective college or university settings and has familiarity with operations of the world of work and university networks.
• Strong multicultural competency; extensive experience and working knowledge in diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PhD preferred.
• Preferred experience in higher education from a research driven institution, including experience in building professional development and experiential learning programs that reach large audiences.

• Thought leadership in a related area is highly desirable.

JHU Equivalency Formula:  30 undergraduate degree credits (semester hours) or 18 graduate degree credits may substitute for one year of experience.  Additional related experience may substitute for required education on the same basis.  For jobs where equivalency is permitted, up to two years of non-related college course work may be applied towards the total minimum education/experience required for the respective job.

Special Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• By way of experience, evidence of ability to develop and execute programs, courses, events, and content to scale impact across various constituent groups.
• By way of experience, evidence of ability to engage, teach, and energize various constituent groups.
• Knowledge of higher educational leadership and administration, higher education structure and governance and factors that affect decision making at private research institutions. 
• Understanding of nationally recognized practices, trends, and procedures for university career and life design, especially the unique needs of doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows.
• Ability to translate doctoral and postdoctoral experiences to employment as evidenced by prior experience in either a government, non-profit, education, or private sector setting.
• Demonstrated skill in fostering new institutional relationships, and marshaling professional networks with faculty, senior administrators, employers and alumni.
• Experience in developing and implementing effective assessment methods and articulating strategic priorities.
• Ability to provide energetic leadership, with ability to develop and execute a vision, and effectively manage, supervise, and develop staff.
• Ability to demonstrate capacity to work effectively with persons from diverse backgrounds to promote an inclusive campus and community culture.
• Demonstrated skill in effective negotiation, building consensus and influencing institutional decisions.
• Be influential and manage change in a highly decentralized institution.
• Analyze information and situations and make independent judgments and decisions.
• Listen and communicate convincingly in written and verbal formats.
• Effectively and creatively utilize social media to increase engagement and influence public opinion.
• Manage and delegate workload and work flow under the pressure of deadlines.
• Set priorities in a complex environment and represent the institution’s perspective to external entities.

Classified Title: Director Phutures 
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MG 
Starting Salary Range: Commensurate with Experience
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Mon to Fri 8:30am - 5pm 
Exempt Status: Exempt  
Location: 01-MD:Homewood Campus 

The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.

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