Sr. Assistant Director, Training and Development; Undergraduate Admissions
Listed on 2026-08-26
-
Management
Education Administration -
Education / Teaching
Education Administration
Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.
We are seeking a Sr. Assistant Director, Training and Staff Development who will balance the core admissionofficer responsibilities of recruitment and management of aregional 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.
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 offocus. [SM1.1]
- Provides oversight of major programs and/processes and connectsthem to strategies in other areas of the office to work towardsinstitutional goals.
- Builds relationships with all relevant third parties (withinUndergraduate admissions as well as across the university) to collaborate effectively towards goals.
- Works with the management team to develop a strategic visionfor their respective areas of focus.
Develops an evaluative structure for effective programming intheir 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 newstrategies, and evaluate them over time.
- Identify future areas for innovation/growth withintheirarea.
- Creates any staff training content around their area offocus.
- Manages a regional territory—reads applications, plansrecruitment strategies and initiatives, and manages constituentrelationships.
- 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 forofficewide 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 toprovide 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 theefficacy of staff training
- Research and stay informed about current industry trends
- Anticipate future training needs
- Ability to communicate effectively with prospective students,parents, secondary school counselors, faculty and other universitypartners as well as the ability to represent Johns Hopkins University to the public.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision, independently and aspartof 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 ofstudent 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, tothe 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
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to apre-employment background check.
If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact theHR Business Services Office TTYusers, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.
The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will…(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).