Job Description

We are seeking a Managing Director of the Institute for Policy Solutions (IPS) who will work in collaboration to support and administer programming within the assigned project or portfolio. This position will work closely with project partners towards common project goals and serve as the focal point for consortium partners. They will play a key role in knowledge management, reporting, and work planning for the overall project.

The Managing Director of the Institute for Policy Solutions (IPS) at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. The position is the institute’s senior operational leader—reporting to the Vice Dean for Policy and Health Systems Transformation, who also serves as IPS Executive Director—and it owns the operational execution of a newly structured, growing policy institute across its research cores, the Policy Leadership Academy, and its communications and external engagement.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as program lead and/or writer of sections for very large and complex and/or global proposals.
• Reviews and provides feedback on country level narrative and budget submissions to donor
• Ensures a knowledge management system to track all requests and submissions
• Network and liaise as needed to promote the project.
• Lead work planning and reporting across all project technical/core areas, as well as troubleshooting as needed.
• Develop and then track metrics to gauge performance across the project.
• Acts as Project Director, in the absence of the Project Director.
• Other duties as assigned.

In addition to the duties described above

• Communications and marketing leadership: own the institute’s integrated communications, marketing, and brand strategy across earned, owned, and paid media; supervise the Senior Communications and Marketing Strategist; and manage external communications contracts. This absorbs most functions of a Director of Communications and Marketing role being eliminated and falls entirely outside the generic Finance — Business description.
• Senior operational leadership of a new institute: build the operating infrastructure and coordinate day-to-day work across three research cores, contributing centers, and the Policy Leadership Academy, protecting the Executive Director’s strategic and scientific capacity.
• Earned-revenue program operations: direct the business model, pricing, enrollment, and continuing-education/certificate administration of a national, fee-based policy-training program, and administer the Policy Pitch Program’s proposal cycle, pitch event, and milestone-tied awards.
• Sponsored-program administration: oversee research-grant administration with School of Nursing research administration (proposal support, award set-up, effort reporting, and sponsor/university compliance) and administer discretionary and endowment funds.
• Policy convening and events: plan and execute institute convenings and policy-facing briefings, including programming at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC, and support the advisors and affiliates network.

Required

• Demonstrated experience leading communications and marketing—integrated strategy, media relations, and brand—and supervising communications staff (scope beyond the generic Finance — Business description).

On call or non-standard work hour requirements

• Occasional travel to Washington, DC (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center) and evening or weekend hours as needed for convenings, briefings, and policy-facing events.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Finance, Business or related field.
• Five years of related experience, with at least three years managing staff.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma/graduation equivalent, to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or operating a fee-based, earned-revenue educational or professional-development program.
• Sponsored program (grants) administration, including federally funded awards.
• Working knowledge of health policy, nursing, or health services research environments.

Technical Skills & Expected Level of Proficiency

• Budget Management - Advanced
• Financial Acumen - Advanced
• Financial Project Management - Advanced
• Knowledge Management - Advanced
• Proposal Development - Advanced
• Performance Metrics Development - Advanced
• Stakeholder Engagement - Advanced

The core technical skills listed are most essential; additional technical skills may be required based on specific division or department needs.

Classified Title: Sr. Program Manager
Job Posting Title (Working Title) Managing Director of the Institute for Policy Solutions (IPS) (Research Administration)
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PG
Starting Salary Range: $102,295 - $179,375 Annually ($150,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5:00 (evening or weekend hours as needed for convenings, briefings, and policy-facing events)
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid/School of Nursing
Department name: Research Administration
Personnel area: School of Nursing