Sr. Research Manager, Design Nucleus (Research Administration)

Johns Hopkins University•Baltimore, MD

13h•$66,215 - $116,130

About The Position

The Sr. Research Manager, Design Nucleus helps build and lead the Design Nucleus at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, a hub for advancing work at the intersection of design and nursing. The position collaborates with principal investigators to set direction for multiple research projects within a large program and plans and directs research operations involving multiple projects, external partners, internal collaborators, and national or international networks. The role reports to Design Nucleus Director Andre Nogueira and works closely with Dean Sarah Szanton. This entrepreneurial position combines strategic and operational leadership. It helps shape the Nucleus’s direction, portfolio, partnerships, and funding model while ensuring projects are planned, staffed, budgeted, and delivered. The portfolio includes Neighborhood Nursing, the Social Prescription Initiative, CAPABLE Care Connect, and the BTC journal. The role also supports projects in the Dean’s broader portfolio outside the Design Nucleus, including Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) work. The position oversees research activities, staff, data management, regulatory procedures, and staff training. It develops project plans and standard operating procedures, manages program finances, supports grant applications and progress reports, and contributes to manuscripts and presentations. Additional portfolio responsibilities include cultivating funding and partnership opportunities, developing the Nucleus’s operating and financial model, packaging its methods and tools for partners, managing the BTC journal, coordinating cross-sector and multi-site work, and communicating impact. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with occasional evening and weekend hours for community events and convenings, early-morning or evening meetings with international partners, and occasional domestic and international travel.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
Six years of related experience.
Demonstrated supervisory or lead experience.
Demonstrated success building and managing a portfolio of externally funded projects, including proposal development, budgeting, and partner management.
Additional education may substitute for required experience, and additional related experience may substitute for required education beyond a high school diploma or equivalent, subject to the JHU equivalency formula.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in a related field.
Experience in a design-led, innovation, or entrepreneurial setting, such as an innovation lab, design studio, social enterprise, or startup.
Working knowledge of human-centered or systems design methods.
Experience with community-based health, nursing, or aging initiatives.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with investigators and exercise independent judgment in directing research.
Participate in scientific discussions with collaborators, principal investigators, and funding organizations, contributing to decisions that affect research conduct.
Provide support and guidance to the research team.
Collaborate with principal investigators on protocol development and evaluation.
Develop or oversee development of standard operating procedures and data collection forms based on protocols.
Train and oversee research data management and regulatory compliance.
Ensure development, testing, and evaluation of manuals, questionnaires, and coding structures for efficient data collection.
Oversee data collection, validation, and quality control of study data.
Develop or oversee study budgets with the finance team and ensure all study costs are included.
Manage program finances.
Assist principal investigators with grant applications and progress reports.
Contribute to manuscripts and presentations.
Recruit, educate, train, and supervise research staff.
Serve as a strategic thought partner to the Director and Dean, translating the design-and-nursing agenda into a multi-year roadmap, annual priorities, and a coherent project portfolio.
Build and manage the project pipeline for the Design Nucleus and related Dean’s portfolio projects, assessing strategic fit, team capacity, and financial viability and recommending sequencing and go/no-go decisions.
Identify, cultivate, and steward funding and partnership opportunities across federal, state, philanthropic, health system, payer, and industry sources; lead development of concept notes, pitch materials, and proposals.
Help design and implement the Nucleus’s operating and financial model, including faculty service offerings, cost-recovery structures, and partnership agreements, in collaboration with finance, research administration, and development teams.
Package the Nucleus’s methods, tools, and models into offerings that partners can adopt or scale, and build shared systems for project intake, resourcing, and reporting.
Manage the BTC journal as a portfolio project, overseeing editorial workflows and timelines, coordinating authors, reviewers, and editors, and managing the journal budget and publisher relationship.
Coordinate cross-sector, multi-site work with community organizations, health systems, and international collaborators, including partners in India.
Track and communicate portfolio impact to leadership, funders, and partners.
Perform other duties as assigned.