Assistant Director, Design, Entrepreneurship - FLI Focused; Design Lab

Assistant Director, Life Design, Entrepreneurship – FLI Focused (Life Design Lab)
The Johns Hopkins University

The Life Design Lab seeks an Assistant Director who will report to the Senior Director of Life Design and execute on the Lab’s vision, strategy, and objectives to expand entrepreneurial exploration, innovation experiences, and life design outcomes for first‑generation and limited‑income (FLI) undergraduate students.

• Identify and map the student population interested in entrepreneurship across academic programs — with particular attention to FLI students — to ensure programming, outreach and opportunity pathways are inclusive, targeted, and reflective of student interests and needs.
• Expand FLI student engagement with entrepreneurship through experiential learning, innovation programs, mentoring and project‑based work.
• Identify and address participation gaps in innovation experiences, including Explore Tours, treks, internships and student venture programs.
• Define and track indicators such as participation in innovation programs and workshops, engagement with mentors, alumni founders and employer partners, access to internships, micro‑internships and startup experiences, progress toward entrepreneurial or innovation‑related career goals.
• Use data to inform continuous improvement and scalable access strategies.

• Design scalable workshops and digital content introducing students — especially FLI students — to entrepreneurial mindsets, including creativity, experimentation, problem‑solving and storytelling.
• Develop programming addressing access gaps related to exposure, networks, belonging in innovation spaces and venture skill development.
• Strategically manage student communication to increase participation in innovation programming, Explore Tours and mentorship opportunities.

• Provide inclusive, strengths‑based coaching supporting life design exploration, entrepreneurial ideation and innovation‑focused career pathways.
• Integrate life design and equity‑informed practices into all advising, workshops and group facilitation.

• Deliver and customize the Life Design curriculum to support entrepreneurship‑focused exploration and skill‑building.
• Facilitate or support credit‑bearing and non‑credit‑bearing courses such as the Life Design Practicum, Arrive & Thrive, Map the System, Hop In, FLI Internship Academy or entrepreneurship‑related intersession offerings.

• Manage logistics, communications and follow‑through for innovation treks, workshops and student‑facing events to ensure high‑quality implementation.
• Coordinate cohort‑specific services and entrepreneurship‑related initiatives in partnership with the Pava Center, Tech Ventures, academic departments and employer partners.
• Support the execution of innovation‑focused programs, Explore Tours and experiential learning opportunities by adhering to established project timelines and workflows.

• Work closely with the Pava Center to align programming and co‑develop experiential opportunities connecting students to the innovation ecosystem.
• Collaborate with academic departments, advising units and student success offices to strengthen pathways into innovation experiences for FLI students.

• Build and maintain relationships with alumni founders, startups, accelerators and innovation employers who can support student learning and opportunity access.
• Partner with Employer Engagement and Alumni Relations to connect students to internships, micro‑internships, mentoring and project‑based experiences.
• Use institutional data systems to track student engagement with entrepreneurship pathways.
• Develop assessment plans that measure the impact of interventions and inform strategy.
• Produce reports and insights demonstrating progress toward reducing participation gaps and expanding FLI access to innovation pathways.

• Serve on a Life Design Lab committee and contribute to Lab‑wide strategy, collaboration…