Description
Primary goal is to ensure that IT optimally develops, supports, and manages a portfolio of University-wide Finance and Accounting, Procurement, Grants Management, Payroll, elements of Human Resources and Student Systems applications. Responsible for managing organizational structure, recruiting, ensuring development of staff, establishing metrics for departmental and staff performance, planning and managing service delivery, maintaining alignment between business plans, applications, technical architecture and University IT standards. Consults with VPs, Central Administration managers, Administrative/Financial Deans on the development and implementation of administrative IT projects, governing relationships with internal suppliers and external contractors and consultants, and strengthening customer service. Education and Experience: Bachelor degree is required, Masters degree preferred. 7 to 10 years of increasingly responsible experience in the operation and management of IT services. Strong leadership, communications, technology management skills and experience. The primary duty of employees in this classification is the management of a customarily recognized department or subdivision, including the supervision of three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees have impact on budgeting, controlling costs, planning, scheduling, and procedural change. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.