Field Services Associate Director

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Job Category: Limited

Employment Type: Regular

Job Profile: IT Director I (Inst)

Job Summary: Help us transform Wisconsin and the world! The University of Wisconsin - Madison, branded a "public Ivy" by Forbes Magazine, provides a world-class education to our students and supports cutting-edge research with global collaborators who leverage our data networks to find and visualize black holes, uncover elusive subatomic particles and gravitational waves, improve weather and climate forecasting, identify invasive species in the U.S., enhance agriculture yields and livestock growth and SO much more!

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) seeks an enthusiastic and talented Network Services Field Services Associate Director to work with world-class faculty, staff, students and leading-edge network technologies. In this role, you’ll be managing a team of 15 to install and maintain networks connecting over 60,000 faculty, staff and students, special-purpose research instruments, computation and storage systems to each other and to reach collaborators and data sources across the world.

The candidate selected for this position may perform a combination of on-site and remote work subject to an approved flexible work arrangement (FWA), which is reviewed and approved annually. It is anticipated the role will be onsite at least four days per week. Remote work requires successful candidates to possess their own high-speed internet and phone to perform the work on a university provided computer.

Per University policy, transportation between home and assigned work location is not payable/reimbursable and will be at the expense of the employee.

Travel Expectations: It is expected that employees will make individual arrangements for transportation adequate to meet position responsibilities and essential job functions. Read more about UW-Madison Driver Authorization.

Applicants are required to:
Have a valid drivers license and a reliable source of independent transportation for periodic in-state work travel, and/or comply with requirements for UW-Madison vehicle use authorization.

Key

Job Responsibilities:

• Directs strategic information technology planning initiatives and establishes objectives for the institution to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, staffing resources in alignment with the strategic plan
• Develops operating policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and unit objectives
• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
• May develop and audit institutional budgets and/or financials
• Manage and maintain service levels. Establish measures of service success such as benchmarks, key performance indicators (KPIs), and Objective and Key Results (OKRs). Oversee a program of continuous improvement for all services
• Serves as a liaison representing the interests of the institution to internal and external stakeholders
• Responsible for the successful implementation of and management of projects at the group, department, and enterprise level
• Advises institutional or divisional leadership on information technology operations and business models
• May perform manager functions

Department: Division of Information Technology, Network Services, Field Services UW is a comprehensive teaching, public service and scholarly research institution. Our faculty have enabled us to remain consistently ranked in the top 5 research institutions (by expenditures) in the U.S. We are comprised of 14 schools and colleges, over 28000 faculty/staff, a student enrollment of over 50,000 with a $5.1B annual budget which includes over $1.9B in research expenditures.

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is an exciting and dynamic work environment grounded in organizational principles that include family and personal life/work balance; an inclusive, respectful, and supportive work environment; professional development opportunities; innovation; and alignment with the campus's teaching, learning, and research missions. DoIT is UW’s central IT organization. We provide computer technology services to UW and a more limited set of services to other Universities of Wisconsin, other units of State government and other institutions in the region.

DoIT delivers desktop, server and cloud computing services and supports networks, telecommunications, Internet connectivity, administrative and academic systems, security, instructional technology and other information technology services. Network Services is a department within DoIT that is responsible for the operations, administration, management and support of the campus wired and wireless networks, wide-area…