Director Information Technology II (Research

Location

Atlanta, Georgia

Full-Time

Regular

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The Office of the Executive Vice President for Research (EVPR) directs Georgia Techs more than $1 billion research program. The research leadership team collaborates closely with Georgia Techs college deans and school chairs to move the Institutes research agenda forward. Leadership also guides research administration teams and development experts to support our researchers. The EVPR support team helps carry out the vision, mission, and programs of research leadership.

Plan, organize and oversee the information technology support function for a large, organizationally complex campus unit. Includes planning for and acquisition, installation and maintenance of hardware and software systems required to meet unit's information technology needs. Responsible for setting employee, determining organizational structure to meet those goals, assessing performance, providing feedback and recommending pay actions. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: unit senior management and staff, unit IT users/customers, OIT management and staff, IT directors in other units.

This position typically will advise and counsel: unit senior management and staff, unit IT users/customers, OIT management and staff, IT directors in other units. This position will supervise:
Unit IT support team.

• Job Duty 1 - Direct unit IT support staff personnel to include staffing, formulation and assignment of goals, performance assessment and employee development
• Job Duty 2 - Formulate unit IT budget and manage related expenditures
• Job Duty 3 - Oversee continual review of unit information needs; formulate and implement plans required to meet those needs
• Job Duty 4 - Advise unit senior management on IT strategy
• Job Duty 5 - Coordinate/communicate unit IT plans, programs and activities with OIT, as appropriate
• Job Duty 6 - Serve as unit representative on campus-wide information technology advisory groups, as applicable
• Job Duty 7 - Perform other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science Computer Engineering or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience Six to eight years of job related experience

The Director of Information Technology will be responsible for IT Service Delivery for the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research. This role will lead teams of IT professionals directly and will be responsible for coordinating IT service…