General Counsel

Johns Hopkins; Ames (IA); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Johns Hopkins in Ames, IA seeks a temporary General Counsel to own Contract Lifecycle Management from week one. The role offers a $69,000–$90,000 salary, real ownership over your work, and a clear path to grow with a team that ships.

Responsibilities include driving improvements, balancing independent work with collaboration, and ensuring regulatory compliance in the Ames office. A hybrid schedule and tailored development plan accompany the role.

Qualifications

• Curiosity about Johns Hopkins customers and their needs.
• Ability to turn data into persuasive, decision-ready storytelling.
• Comfort with temporary arrangements and fast-paced work rhythms.
• Ability to defend recommendations in front of stakeholders.
• Experience in contract-related roles or governance preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive measurable improvements within your area of responsibility.
• Balance independent work with effective temporary team collaboration.
• Trade quick wins for rigorous, well-founded fixes when justified by data.
• Field curveballs from Ames clients without losing the thread of work.
• Champion a positive, collaborative culture in the Ames, IA office.
• Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable IA regulations.

Job description

When a General Counsel seat opens at Johns Hopkins, it's because we trust someone new to own Contract Lifecycle Management from week one in Ames. This temporary General Counsel role offers a $69,000 - $90,000 salary, real ownership over your work, and a clear path to grow alongside a team that ships.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive measurable improvements within your area of responsibility
• Balance independent work with effective temporary team collaboration
• Trade quick wins for warm-yet-rigorous fixes when the math favors patience
• Field curveballs from Ames clients without losing the thread
• Champion a positive, collaborative culture throughout the Ames, IA office
• Ensure compliance with company policies and applicable IA regulations

What You'll Bring

• Real curiosity about why Johns Hopkins customers do what they do
• Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision
• Comfort with temporary arrangements and the rhythms of a gloriously-unglamorous workplace
• Comfort defending a recommendation in front of skeptics
• Demonstrated wins in general work somewhere near Ames, IA

Everything Johns Hopkins ships starts as a clarity-seeking argument in an Ames conference room about how Goal Setting should really work. We believe the best general decisions get made closest to the work, not three floors up.

You’ll receive $69,000 - $90,000, a hybrid schedule, and a personalized development plan tailored to your general career goals.

Updated within the day, the General Counsel position keeps welcoming resumes.

We’d rather hear from you sooner than later, so don’t sit on this General Counsel opening.