Sr. Assistant Director, Training and Staff Development (Undergraduate Admissions)

We are seeking a Sr. Assistant Director, Training and Staff Development who will balance the core admission officer responsibilities of recruitment and management of a regional territory while also providing leadership over a key programmatic or process area(s) across the office.

The Senior Assistant Director sits on the management team and partners with office leadership to develop goals, ensuring academic quality and diversity of perspectives in the incoming class. This position will provide leadership across our office-wide training initiatives.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

The Sr. Assistant Director, Training and Staff Development

• Provides leadership over a key business area within the undergraduate admissions office: responsible for the strategic direction, logistics, timelines, planning, and evaluation of processes and policies that fall within their designated area of focus. [SM1.1]
• Provides oversight of major programs and/processes and connects them to strategies in other areas of the office to work towards institutional goals.
• Builds relationships with all relevant third parties (within Undergraduate admissions as well as across the university) to collaborate effectively towards goals.
• Works with the management team to develop a strategic vision for their respective areas of focus.

Develops an evaluative structure for effective programming in their designated area of focus

• Work with office leadership to create tools and/or an analysis plan to analyze and improve work in their strategic areas.
• Builds short- and long-term plans to set goals, implement new strategies, and evaluate them over time.
• Identify future areas for innovation/growth within their area.

• Creates any staff training content around their area of focus.
• Manages a regional territory—reads applications, plans recruitment strategies and initiatives, and manages constituent relationships.
• Represents JHU Admissions in public events and information sessions.

Responsibilities as a Senior Assistant Director, Training and Staff Development - In particular, this position will support and oversee training and staff development

• Partner with the leadership team to ensure the vision for officewide staff development is executed accordingly
• Collaborate with other managers/project leads to identify staff training needs
• Create a staff development strategy focused on continuous growth and elevation of impact
• Coordinate with departments and offices across campus to provide timely presentations and information to staff
• Maintain a year-round training calendar
• Oversee the transition and onboarding of new staff members
• Create surveys and other feedback mechanisms to evaluate the efficacy of staff training
• Research and stay informed about current industry trends
• Anticipate future training needs

Special Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities

• Ability to communicate effectively with prospective students, parents, secondary school counselors, faculty and other university partners as well as the ability to represent Johns Hopkins University to the public.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision, independently and as part of a team.
• Strong event management and development skills.
• Demonstrates the utmost level of professionalism with both internal and external constituents.
• Possesses strong cultural competency and understanding of student educational experiences coming from diverse backgrounds.
• Knowledge of standard office software applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
• Ability to build, propose, and maintain a budget.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Five years progressively responsible related experience.

• Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Classified Title: Sr. Admissions Officer 
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Sr. Assistant Director, Training and Staff Development (Undergraduate Admissions)   
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MD  
Starting Salary Range: $57,195 - $100,040 Annually ($80K - $90K, targeted; Commensurate w/exp.) 
Employee group: Full Time 
Schedule: Monday-Friday, some nights and weekends for events, recruitment, evaluation and selection, etc. 
FLSA Status: Exempt 
Location: Hybrid/Homewood Campus  
Department name: Undergraduate Admissions   
Personnel area: University Student Services