Senior Manager- Information Technology

Company Description

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage ista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development.

Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers.

We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

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Job Description

Covista is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. You will be a key technology leader for 300,000+ students and 10,000 employees, across 5 institutions and 27 campus locations. As the Senior Manager, IT, you will be responsible for overseeing the IT department and ensuring the efficient and effective operation of our technology landscape.

The Senior manager will lead a team of IT professionals, manage IT product lifecycle, manage projects, and provide strategic guidance to align our technology initiatives with the overall business goals. A Senior Director typically has a broader scope of responsibility compared to a Director. They are responsible for overseeing multiple teams, departments, or functions within an organization. This may include managing multiple projects, budgets, and resources across various areas of IT.

• People/Talent leadership:
  Responsible for overseeing multiple teams, departments, or functions within an organization. This may include managing multiple projects, budgets, and resources across various areas of IT. Attracts, hires and builds high-performing teams, empowers people and rewards results; achieves results through clearly articulated goals, discernment, priorities and a belief in the positive intentions of our employees. Takes an active role in developing talent.
  
  Builds and enables a highly engaged, high performing team. Strong communicator.
• Lead, motivate, and inspire a team of IT professionals, including hiring, training, and performance management.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative work environment that encourages teamwork and knowledge sharing.
• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members to support their professional growth.
• Operational leadership:
  Demonstrates organizational agility and an ability to build a high performance culture e which models the willingness, leadership, and courage to challenge the status quo; fosters creativity; problem solves/acts quickly to activate change, innovation and resilience. Delivers a highly stable, robust environment for Covista and enables our business. Thinks “human first” in operational experiences delivered. Shows discipline of execution and delivery.
  
  Oversee the day-to-day operations of the assigned IT sub-function, ensuring the stability, security, and reliability of the technology stack, capability and/or product.
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