Director HR IT

IT@JH Administration and Finance is seeking a HR Director, IT. Reporting to the VP and Chief Information Officer of Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and Johns Hopkins Medicine (JHM), the HR Director, Information Technology is responsible for providing strategic and tactical leadership for IT@JH, a department of nearly 1,300 full-time Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Health System employees serving at multiple campuses/locations in the Baltimore/DC Metro area and St. Petersburg, FL. This position serves as a strategic thought partner for the CIO and provides input and direction to all leaders within IT@JH. The HR Director, Information Technology designs and implements strategies focused on attracting, engaging, developing and retaining top IT talent in a large, complex enterprise IT environment.

Specific Duties & Responsibility

Strategic Planning

• Develop and execute HR initiatives that support IT@JH goals, ensuring alignment with the strategic priorities of both JHU and JHM.
• Provide strategic recommendations and analysis to ensure ongoing support of IT@JH staff identification, selection, onboarding, coaching, development, engagement and retention.
• Communicate, collaborate and influence leadership within JHU and JHM by establishing reliability, credibility, trust and rapport with IT and HR leaders throughout the Hopkins Enterprise.
• Lead ongoing staff integrations in response to enterprise-level decisions to integrate external units with IT@JH.

Employee Engagement/Development/Relations

• Collaborate with management to enhance employee engagement through Glint employee engagement survey, providing training on survey interpretation and strategic guidance on the development of action plans.
• Leading the ongoing IT@JH Stay Interview Program to oversee execution and identify areas of improvement, partnering with directors to implement solutions that enhance employee engagement, retention and attraction of top talent.
• Ensure transparency of promotional opportunities by promptly informing all IT employees of direct replacement, restructured and new job openings.
• Create development pathways for high-performing employees to explore more complex roles within IT job families, enabling growth and skill development.
• Provide guidance to managers and leaders on employee development, change management, conflict resolution, performance management and discipline.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives

• Develop and oversee the implementation of the HR Diversity Strategic Plan for IT@JH.
• Provide strategic oversight of the IT@JH Diversity and Development Council, aligning projects and goals with the JHU Roadmap on Diversity and Inclusion and the JHM Diversity, Inclusion and Health Equity Strategic Plan.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with opportunity talent organizations such as NPower. Encourage participation in volunteer opportunities with NPower, as well as new partnerships from Hopkins.
• Maintain an annual IT@JH staff composition dashboard, providing DEI analysis on race/ethnicity and gender across IT departments.
• Manage two IT internship programs, one geared toward high school students and the other toward college students. Implement fair and diverse recruitment process and promote opportunities at local HBCUs as well as local vocational technical high schools in Baltimore.

Training

• Lead the development and delivery of management HR training series to address staff and management knowledge/skill needs and compliance topics.
• Work with leadership to identify opportunities for HR training at team meetings, manager forums and leadership meetings, covering topics like behavioral-based interviewing, FMLA, ADA, performance management and employee engagement.
• Create customized training plans for employees/teams based on specific needs.

Compensation and Benefits

• Analyze and provide strategic recommendations to address internal equity and market pressures, factoring in technical talent, critical skills/certifications, flight risk and hard-to-train soft skills in addition to relevant years of experience and education.
• Counsel IT@JH leadership on differences between JHU and JHM compensation policies and provide proactive strategic guidance to effectively navigate mixed-employer environment challenges.
• Partner with JHU and JHM compensation teams to ensure appropriate recognition and rewards for individual accomplishments, increased skills/competencies and significant job changes within IT@JH.
• Advise managers on resolving team conflicts arising from differences in JHU vs. JHHS compensation policies, benefits and holidays.

Compliance

• Provide strategic