Director of Information Technology; on site

Job Title: Director of Information Technology (on-site)

Reports To: Vice President for Finance & Administration

The Director of Information Technology provides leadership and strategic direction for the College’s technology environment and Information Technology department. The position is responsible for ensuring reliable, secure, and effective technology services while helping the College use technology, data, automation, and emerging technologies to advance its academic, administrative, and operational goals.

The Director serves as the College’s senior technology leader and advisor and works collaboratively with institutional leadership, faculty, staff, and campus departments to develop technology priorities, assess risks and opportunities, improve business processes, and ensure technology investments align with the College’s mission and strategic objectives.

The Director provides leadership for technology strategy and planning, cybersecurity, enterprise applications, infrastructure and cloud services, data and system integration, business continuity, technology service delivery, budgeting, vendor management, technology governance, and the development of Information Technology staff.

• Provides leadership, vision, and direction for the Information Technology department and establishes technology priorities that support the mission and strategic goals of the College.
• Develops and executes a multi-year institutional technology strategy aligned with the College’s academic, administrative, operational, and financial priorities.
• Serves as the College’s senior technology advisor and partners with institutional leadership and campus departments to evaluate technology needs, investments, risks, opportunities, and emerging technologies.
• Identifies opportunities to use technology, automation, artificial intelligence, and improved business processes to increase institutional effectiveness and improve services for students, faculty, and staff, and provides leadership for the evaluation, governance, risk management, accessibility, and responsible use of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies across the College.
• Provides leadership for technology governance and project prioritization to ensure technology investments are sustainable, appropriately resourced, and aligned with institutional priorities.
• Leads the College’s cybersecurity and information security program, including security governance, risk management, data protection, identity and access management, security awareness, incident response, regulatory compliance, third-party technology risk management, policy development, and the establishment of appropriate security standards and controls.
• Provides strategic oversight for the College’s enterprise systems environment, including the ERP/SIS platform, Microsoft 365, cloud and SaaS applications, reporting systems, integrations, and other mission-critical business systems.
• Provides leadership for institutional data governance, reporting, analytics, system integration, and decision-support initiatives designed to improve data quality, accessibility, consistency, security, and informed institutional decision-making.
• Ensures the reliable, secure, and sustainable operation of the College’s technology infrastructure, including networks, wireless services, servers, cloud services, telecommunications, identity systems, endpoints, and related technology services.
• Leads technology business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning and ensures appropriate safeguards, recovery capabilities, documentation, and testing are maintained for critical technology services.
• Provides leadership for technology service delivery and establishes…