Assistant Director, Life Design Educator-LDE

We are seeking an Assistant Director, Life Design Educator-LDE . The Assistant Director of Life Design Educator will report to the Director of Life Design for Graduate Programming. They will execute the Life Design Lab's vision with a focus on multicultural collaboration (the LDE would be working with students of diverse backgrounds, and the LDE would collaborate with other LDEs, professionals of different backgrounds) and the creation of scalable content delivery for graduate students in Johns Hopkins Advanced Academic Programs. Under the leadership of Dr. Farouk Dey, the inaugural vice provost for integrative learning and life design, 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.

As an equity-based office that believes all students have the same opportunity to pursue their life purpose regardless of background, field of study, or social capital, each Life Design Educator is expected to support all of our students by actively participating throughout the year in the co-creation and execution of programs that impact our entire student population. However, this position focuses on graduate students in Advanced Academic Programs, including our residential and virtual master's students pursuing Master's Degrees and graduate-level certificates. This role will be based in the DC Campus and occasionally work from the Homewood campus under multiple social media channels.

Over the course of the year, the Life Design Lab offers both credit-bearing and non-credit-bearing coursework that is driven by our unique life design curriculum. The Assistant Director will spend time serving as a teaching assistant and eventually a co-facilitator for the formalized curriculum for our student population. The Life Design Lab's efforts are also driven by initiative-based programs that span the academic calendar. These offerings will meet the unique needs of students and alumni concerning their identity, values, academic pursuits, and professional interests.

The Assistant Director implements programs and creates content that connects graduate students to critical mindsets, frameworks, and approaches, using the novel approach to career readiness and life design that has been established at Johns Hopkins University. Alongside colleagues within the Graduate Programming team, the Assistant Director will help maintain critical and established relationships with departmental leadership, faculty, campus partners, community partners, alumni, and local employers. This position is specifically responsible for branding the Life Design Lab through social media and other digital formats.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Conduct needs assessment and utilize data to create and execute scalable, sustainable, and impactful student programming.
• Collaborate with the Advanced Academic Programs Student Affairs team, an AAP Life Design team member, and student organizations (GRO, ISAH, etc.) to design, promote, and execute scalable and impactful programming to engage with 100% of students.
• Ensure the delivery of the Life Design curriculum to students via official channels, including the Life Design Course (International Student Curriculum and Graduate Students Curriculum), intersession, or department-sponsored courses.
• Partner with faculty, alumni, and employers to increase mentoring, experiential learning, and career opportunities for students and alumni.
• Create and publish digital content and other marketing materials that tell the story of the Life Design Lab, the Graduate Programming team, and our students in a way that helps establish our brand with academic, professional, and community audiences.
• Support the execution of signature annual offerings (Future Fest, Industry Weeks, etc.)
• Serve as a thought leader at Johns Hopkins and as an external point of contact for industry employers by identifying, promoting, and supporting established recruitment opportunities on campus.
• Collaborate with Life Design Lab staff to build and maintain a network of employers and mentors across varied careers who can attend courses, programs, and networking events.
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree required.
• Three (3) years of experience in higher education, government, non-profit, or corporate settings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to translate student experiences to employment as evidenced by prior experience in either a government, non-profit, education, or private sector setting.
• Experience with large-scale career course and program development, preferably for graduate student populations.
• Experience creating content (video, digital, written) and utilizing social media for the purposes of engaging and educating diverse audiences, and influencing public opinion.
• Knowledge of the needs of international students and an understanding of this population's unique life design and career planning needs and expectations.
• Experience with online student populations/distance learners and a vision to build a community for this group.
• Comfortable with technology and able to quickly learn and use a wide range of systems (Handshake, Interstride, VMock, PeopleGrove), collaboration tools (Zoom, Teams, Outlook, Canva, Miro, Monday), and instructional technologies (Canvas, etc.).
  

• Strong multicultural competency and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders to achieve equitable and inclusive results.
  

• By way of experience, evidence of ability to develop and execute programs, courses, events, and content to scale impact across various constituent groups.
  

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in person and virtually to achieve individual and shared goals within a complex and decentralized institution.
  

• Listen and communicate convincingly in written and verbal formats.
• The ideal candidate is comfortable with co-working, flexible work arrangements, and multiple forms of technology, communication, and content delivery. 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 to scale our impact across the institution. For this model to work, the ideal candidate must present excellent relationship development skills and engage audiences in groups and via social media and digital outlets.
  

• Our educators work within multiple offices and spaces on campus. The ideal candidate can work from the Homewood and DC Campuses 3-4 days per week under the numerous social media channels
  

• 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 the scalability of resources and services and does not utilize a one-on-one appointment model. Traditional one-on-one counseling and coaching services are taking a backseat to a culture of scalable programs and interventions for this transformation to work.
  

• Professional experience with social media, and familiarity with creative tools, such as Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.

Classified Title: IL & LD Officer 
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Assistant Director, Life Design Educator-LDE   
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MD  
Starting Salary Range: $55,200 - $96,600 Annually (Commensurate with experience) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: 5 days per week 
Exempt Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/Homewood Campus 
Department name: ​​​​​​​Life Design Lab  
Personnel area: University Student Services 

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal ... timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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