Senior Advisor, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

The Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins University (GovEx) is looking for a Senior Advisor, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative to join our team of government, data, and performance practice experts to support senior government leaders across Canada, the United States, and Latin America to strategically use data to get better results for residents.

Senior Advisors play a critical role in our organization, as the staff who directly interact with city leaders. Senior Advisors deliver world class coaching and technical assistance, facilitate training and workshops, collaborate on the design of new learning opportunities for city teams, and support cities to create enduring organizational impact.

Since 2015, GovEx has supported over 10,000 public sector leaders in 37 countries, and over 568 cities, counties, and states by providing coaching and technical assistance; research and analytics; training and capacity building; and human resource support. GovEx is a recognized leader in the provision of public sector training to upskill employees and improve data practices through self-guided courses and instructor-facilitated learning.

GovEx is committed to addressing structural and entrenched racism and recognizes the public sector’s role in perpetuating these legacies. We are looking for candidates committed to dismantling structural and entrenched racism and addressing these issues as we promote this work in communities. For more information about GovEx, please visit https://govex.jhu.edu/.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide coaching and direct technical assistance to city teams in the development and implementation of data and performance management practices.
• Facilitate on-site and virtual trainings and workshops for city teams with academic, government, nonprofit and other external partners.
• Design and develop new learning opportunities, curriculum, and resources in collaboration with GovEx’s Learning and Development team.
• Prepare reports, summaries, presentations, and other work products for distribution to the Center’s leadership and external partners, including Bloomberg Philanthropies.
• Contribute to internal strategy development, continuous improvement of existing programs, and the design and execution of new programs.
• Identify, recruit, and liaise with new government partners to participate in our programming.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Special Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Deep knowledge of local government data and performance management efforts.
• Strong attention to detail, project-management skills, and experience managing complex programs from initiation to completion.
• Excellent relationship-building skills, facilitation skills, and the ability to support senior officials from public sector organizations to advance their strategic goals.
• Outstanding ability to collect, synthesize, and communicate program information to varied audiences, including supervisors, external partners, funders, and senior officials.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's Degree in related discipline. Typically require PhD.
• One-year related experience. Require highly specialized advanced knowledge, education and/or training in a specialized field of study to conduct research.
• Demonstrated ability on significant graduate project or additional doctoral education may substitute for experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ten years relevant experience.
• Bi-lingual / Multilingual (Spanish and/or Portuguese) candidates are encouraged to apply given our growing work across Latin American cities.

Classified Title: Sr. Research Data Analyst
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Senior Advisor, Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
Role/Level/Range: ACRP/04/MD
Starting Salary Range: $55,800 - $97,600 Annually(Commensurate with experience)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8am-5pm
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: Hybrid/Homewood Campus
Department name: ​​​​​​​Ctrs for Govt Excellence & Public Innova
Personnel area: Academic and Business Centers

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