Sr. Administrator, Research & Academics

We are seeking a Sr. Administrator, Research & Academics. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine organizes its non-clinical research and academic departments via a consortium of basic science departments, institutes, and academic/research departments representing the full array of scientific and academic specialties and subspecialties. These departments currently have 253 full time faculty, 310 staff to include bargaining unit, and over 1,127 students and/or postdocs. The consortium had annual expenditures of $173 million and a $157 million endowment pool in FY23. The consortium houses twelve graduate programs two of which are the largest graduate education programs along with the largest training grant.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

Planning

• Direct responsibility for administrative aspects of consortium including strategic direction, and financial oversight of operating budgets, capital budgets, and other functions such as administration and development of academic program development, fundraising activities and public relations.
• Develop, recommend, and implement short and long-range goals and objectives for functional operations.
• Develop and implement operational plans and departmental management objectives to ensure performance and contribution to consortium objectives.
• Gather from internal and external sources appropriate data to measure performance in operations.
• Provide information on operational trends to support the consortium’s planning requirements.
• Develop new services, streamline current services within cores and integrate the services across SOM.

Organizing & Implementing

• Provide mentoring and direction to administrators and other managerial leadership.
• Develop long and short-range action plans to achieve collaborative results and maximize individual and collective strengths.
• Advise Institute, department/functional unit directors, on a broad range of consortium specific issues including financial performance, operational achievements and issues, information technology/system changes, State and Federal activities, institutional strategic planning goals, etc.
• Create operational programs to address programmatic and financial issues facing the consortium.
• Develop standards of performance for consortium activities, monitor safety, quality, and service performance and implement training, resource allocation and corrective actions as necessary.
• Timely and accurate communication of departmental/functional unit status to JHU leadership, departmental leadership, and staff members.
• Identify, evaluate and guide the integration of functional units across the consortium.
• Serve as a collaborative partner with the departments and School of Medicine leadership in identifying, planning and implementing functional units.

Managing

• Oversee the Human Resources, Credentialing, Information Systems, Finance, Operations, and Academic functional units and Consortium Administrators.
• Monitors the budget process and assure that both expense and revenue budgets are accurate, timely and realistic during the fiscal year, including the release of funds for expenditure and the review/approval process for capital equipment.
• Manage the development of management reports to document and describe departmental activities over time.
• Communicate outcomes with JHM leadership, Consortium Advisory Committee, and departmental leadership.
• Assess, implement and measure new programs for success.
• Sets clear performance expectations and objectives; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others; recommends proper training and coaching when appropriate; ensures recognition of positive results and takes corrective actions to resolve performance problems as appropriate.
• Review the management of all personnel issues for the consortium including appointment and salary package development for faculty.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or other related field.
  

• Seven years progressively responsible professional-level administrative and financial experience related to monetary or non-monetary resources of a department, center, or unit, including 2 years financial management experience (e.g., planning, directing, monitoring, organizing, and controlling monetary and non-monetary resources). 
  

• Master's Degree in a related field may substitute for required experience, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Demonstrated record of related accomplishments, mentoring staff, increasing employee engagement and reducing st