Prescott College Hiring for Director, Information Technology Services at Prescott, AZ Full Time

SUMMARY

The Director of Information Technology Services (ITS) reports to the Vice President of Finance & Administration and provides leadership and oversight to the College’s Information Technology Services Department. Working in collaboration with college leadership, this position will develop and implement the College’s vision for the use of technology college wide. Prescott Campus location.

 Responsibilities And Duties

· Partners with college leadership to develop and recommend long-range goals, applying college standards in terms of deploying technology, managing technology and support operations to ensure sustainable integration of technology with college and system-wide business needs and operations. Directs strategic planning process for future use and purchase of information technology for the college.

· Oversees the use of information technology through consistent implementation and support of technology.

• Maintains college hardware, virtual servers, virtual desktops and software programs.
• Engages with a variety of college stakeholders to ensure technology investments and projects are aligned with business and teaching needs.
• Recommends technology investments to the Vice President of Finance and Administration and President’s leadership team to further strategic initiatives and drive business process efficiencies.
• Acts as a strategic partner to college departments in the planning, resourcing and work prioritization of technology resources with a focus on driving exceptional student outcomes through effective change leadership, agile practices, and actively resolving conflicts and constraints.
• Maintains relationships with vendor contacts, evaluates vendor offerings and recommends solutions that maximize effectiveness while minimizing cost and risk for the college. Participates in evaluation and selection of vendor offerings, request for proposal committees, purchasing initiatives/contracts that can reduce cost, standardize licensing or provide efficiencies across the college.
• Establishes performance expectations and creates an environment of accountability to effectively deliver and support application infrastructure and system administration through the complete lifecycle of all applications.

Required Competencies

• Leadership: Manages a broad team of professionals who complete and support a variety of technology operations.
• Communication (Oral & Written): Utilizes strong oral and written communications skills to share critical information and concepts with a wide variety of audiences.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Champions equity and inclusion within the College and College departments through policies and practices that support all employees, students and visitors. 
• Collaboration: Works effectively with stakeholder groups to understand their needs and utilize judgement on how to build relationships. 
• Project Management: Understands who needs to be involved in complex projects and how to foster engagement during project inception, planning, development, implementation and close out.
• Change Catalyst: Ability to encourage others to seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches when addressing problems or opportunities.
• Critical Thinking: Identifies future innovation opportunities that relate to higher education and the delivery of instruction. Determine the most appropriate strategy to leverage technology using available resources. Develops long-term strategies and goals for the Department. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (appropriate combination of education and experience will be considered).
• Experience in higher education. Experience working in IT client support or instructional technology and distance learning, Knowledge of PCI and FERPA regulations
• Five or more years of experience in managing/leading technology teams supporting multi-tier application and infrastructure platforms
• Vendor management experience
• Cloud environment knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of application programming development functions

Preferred Job Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining short- and long-term enterprise technology infrastructure plans
• Experience managing budgets
• Experience managing and negotiating vendor contracts and agreements with service providers and regulatory agencies
• Experience developing technology strategies related to cloud services, virtualization, and network architecture
• Experience with business continuity planning and disaster recovery
• An understanding of technology-enhanced learning principles and best practices
• Industry Certifications – System Administration, Networking, Technology Integration, Automation and Control, System Design, Project Management
• Ability to use good judgment in interpreting and adapting policies, precedents and work directions for appropriateness to specific tasks or problems.