Sr. Administrator, Research & Academics (SOM Basic Science Consortium)
Johns Hopkins University
We are seeking a Sr. Administrator, Research & Academics for Basic Science Consortium at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine organizes its non-clinical research and academic departments via a consortium of seven basic science departments, two institutes, and three academic/research departments representing the full array of scientific and academic specialties and subspecialties. These departments currently have 261 full-time faculty, 484 staff to include bargaining unit, and over 832 students and/or postdocs. The consortium had annual expenditures of $170 million and a $165 million endowment pool in FY25. The consortium houses twelve graduate programs, two of which are the largest graduate education programs along with the largest training grant.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
Planning
- Direct responsibility for administrative aspects of consortium including strategic direction, and financial oversight of operating budgets, capital budgets, and other functions such as administration and development of academic program development, fundraising activities, and public relations.
- Develop, recommend, and implement short and long-range goals and objectives for functional operations.
- Develop and implement operational plans and departmental management objectives to ensure performance and contribution to consortium objectives.
- Gather from internal and external sources appropriate data to measure performance in operations. Provide information on operational trends to support the consortium’s planning requirements.
- Develop new services, streamline current services within cores, and integrate the services across SOM.
Organizing & Implementing
- Provide mentoring and direction to administrators and other managerial leadership.
- Develop long and short-range action plans to achieve collaborative results and maximize individual and collective strengths.
- Advise Institute, department/functional unit directors, on a broad range of consortium specific issues including financial performance, operational achievements and issues, information technology/system changes, State and Federal activities, institutional strategic planning goals, et cetera.
- Create operational programs to address programmatic and financial issues facing the consortium.
- Develop standards of performance for consortium activities, monitor safety, quality, and service performance, and implement training, resource allocation and corrective actions, as necessary.
- Timely and accurate communication of departmental/functional unit status to JHU leadership, departmental leadership, and staff members.
- Identify, evaluate, and guide the integration of functional units across the consortium.
- Serve as a collaborative partner with the departments and School of Medicine leadership in identifying, planning, and implementing functional units.
Managing
- Oversee the Human Resources, Credentialing, Information Systems, Finance, Operations, and Academic functional units and Consortium Administrators.
- Monitors the budget process and assure that both expense and revenue budgets are accurate, timely and realistic during the fiscal year, including the release of funds for expenditure and the review/approval process for capital equipment.
- Manage the development of management reports to document and describe departmental activities over time.
- Communicate outcomes with JHM leadership, Consortium Advisory Committee, and departmental leadership.
- Assess, implement, and measure programs for success.
- Sets clear performance expectations and objectives; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others; recommends proper training and coaching when appropriate; ensures recognition of positive results and takes corrective actions to resolve performance problems as appropriate.
- Review the management of all personnel issues for the consortium including appointment and salary package development for faculty.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Health Care Administration or related field.
- Ten years of progressively responsible professional-level administrative and financial experience related to monetary or non-monetary resources of an academic, clinical, and/or research department, including prior financial management experience (e.g., planning, directing, monitoring, organizing, and controlling monetary and non-monetary resources.)
- Previous experience.
- 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
- Demonstrated record of related accomplishments, mentoring staff, increasing employee engagement, and reducing staff turnover, along with strong financial and analytic capabilities.
- Experience working with Compensation model.
- Demonstrated experience increasing service line and business development.
- Understanding of theory and application of work process improvement tools.
- Master's Degree.
- Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
This salary range does not include all components of the School of Medicine's compensation program. This position may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Therefore, the actual compensation paid to the selected candidate may vary slightly from the salary range stated herein. For more information, please contact the hiring department.
Classified Title: Sr. Administrator
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Sr. Administrator, Research & Academics (SOM Basic Science Consortium)
Role/Level/Range: L/05/LG
Starting Salary Range: $111,800 - $195,900 Annually ($153,900 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 8.30am-5.00pm
FLSA Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus
Department name: SOM Basic Science Consortium
Personnel area: School of Medicine