Associate Director of LEED; Leadership, Engagement Experiential Development

Associate Director of LEEDS

We are seeking an Associate Director of LEEDS who will serve as a senior member of the Leadership Engagement and Experiential Development (LEED) Office and provides leadership to the LEED office in the absence of the director. This position plays a critical role in day-to-day management, supervision, and strategic implementation of student engagement, experiential learning, and student organization support initiatives. The Associate Director provides leadership for professional and student staff, advises key student governance and leadership groups, and ensures continuity of operations across LEED in the absence of the Director.

The Leadership Engagement and Experiential Development (LEED) Office supports student learning and leadership development by overseeing registered student organizations, university traditions, and fraternity and sorority life, while advancing co-curricular engagement across all Hopkins schools. LEED administers student organization recognition and governance, advises student leaders, manages the Hopkins Groups JHU’s campus engagement platform, and delivers leadership development programs and immersive experiences in collaboration with campus partners, fostering an inclusive and well-supported student involvement ecosystem.

This position reports to the Director of Leadership, Engagement, & Experiential Development and provides supervision to staff in the areas of student organizations and university programming and traditions. Evening and weekend hours are required.

• Provide staff oversight, evaluation, training and development in conjunction with office priorities for the assistant director of student organizations, assistant director of programming and traditions.
• Oversee the full lifecycle of LEED Graduate Student Interns, including recruitment, onboarding, training, supervision, and ongoing professional development, ensuring interns are effectively supported and aligned with departmental goals.
• Advise the Student Government Association and attend weekly SGA Senate meetings.
• Serve as the system administrator for the Hopkins Groups platform, providing comprehensive support across all Hopkins schools; convening monthly meetings with Hub administrators to ensure alignment and best practices; and maintaining strong working relationships with Ready Education representatives to support system optimization, training, and ongoing enhancements.
• Develop, facilitate, teach, and assess Hopkins Lead, a weeklong pre-orientation program for approximately 30 to 40 incoming first-year students focused on leadership development, identity exploration, and cultivating a connection to the Baltimore community.
• Recruit, hire, and train the Hopkins Lead student interns and advise them on the creation and implementation of the Hopkins Lead curriculum, developing their skills as facilitators, and coaching them on how to be effective mentors.
• Advise and recruit students for Hopkins’s chapter of the national honors society Omicron Delta Kappa, which is charged with celebrating and promoting student leadership at JHU.
• Provide leadership in the Director’s absence.

• Support strategic planning and implementation of LEED initiatives in alignment with departmental and divisional goals.
• Conduct assessment of programs, services, and operations to evaluate effectiveness and inform continuous improvement.
• Oversee and support the use of Hopkins Groups tools and systems, including training staff, students, and student organizations on curriculum tools and engagement platforms.
• Collaborate with campus partners to support advisor training and development related to student organizations and engagement practices.
• Design, implement, and oversee advisor training and development initiatives, with responsibility for convening and leading monthly meetings with advisors to ensure consistent communication, alignment, and continuous improvement.
• Research best practices and peer institution models related to student engagement, experiential learning,…