Director of Cohort- Learning; Design Lab

Johns Hopkins University is advancing an ambitious vision to integrate life design, career readiness, experiential learning, and mentoring throughout the undergraduate experience. The Life Design Lab (LDL), within Integrative Learning and Life Design (ILLD), helps students explore possibilities, build the skills and relationships needed to pursue them, gain meaningful experience, and successfully launch beyond Johns Hopkins.

Reporting directly to the Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Life Design, with dotted-line reporting to the Associate Vice Provost for Student Affairs, Director of Athletics & Recreation, and the Executive Director for Student Success, we are seeking a Director of Cohort-Based Learning who will lead the design, implementation, and assessment of a formal, progressive model of life design and career preparation for first-generation and/or limited-income (FLI) students and scholar-athletes.

The Director will ensure that students in these cohorts receive structured support systematically and with certainty, with clear developmental milestones from early exploration through internship and post-graduate readiness.

The Director will initially supervise a team of life design educators supporting FLI students and will lead the strategy, implementation, and assessment of the FLI cohort model. The Director will personally implement and facilitate the scholar-athlete cohort, providing direct life design and career-readiness education in close partnership with Athletics and Blue Jays LEAD. Working with FLI and student-success partners and teams across ILLD, the Director will connect students to existing internship academies, Blue Jay Pathways, research, employer and alumni opportunities, and other paid experiential learning opportunities.

The Director may also support aligned cohort-based initiatives, including work connected to the Partnership for Student Success (PSS), as the model develops.

The Director will establish baselines and annual targets in partnership with the Assistant Vice Provost and relevant university partners, including the Executive Director for Student Success. Measures are expected to include,

• Cohort reach and completion: the percentage of FLI students and scholar-athletes who participate in and complete defined stages of the progressive model.
• Demonstrated career readiness: the percentage of students meeting established standards for resumes, interviewing, professional storytelling, and opportunity-search preparation.
• Experiential learning access: the percentage of students securing paid internships, research, industry projects, or other qualifying experiential opportunities.
• Post-graduate outcomes: the percentage of graduates employed, enrolled in graduate or continuing education, engaged in service, or pursuing another qualifying destination within six months of graduation, including the quality, timeliness, and equity of outcomes across designated cohorts.
• Program effectiveness: evidence of student progression, partner satisfaction, effective referral pathways, and continuous improvement based on data and student feedback.

• Develop and lead a comprehensive cohort-based life design and career-readiness model for FLI students and scholar-athletes, establishing a sequenced experience that advances from exploration and foundational preparation to experiential learning and successful launch.
• Translate shared career-readiness expectations into clear student milestones, delivery plans, and intervention strategies that can be implemented consistently across cohorts while remaining responsive to the distinct experiences of each population.
• Establish systems that ensure all students in…