Description
Senior administrative officer responsible for planning, organizing and setting the strategic direction of the organization's information technology functions and resources. Provides direction and control of activities such as systems design and analysis, applications and systems programming, database management, network systems, telecommunications, and data processing operations. Identifies systems software and hardware necessary for the successful integration of information systems across the organization. Establishes computer operations control policies and procedures, and designates priorities for computer operations and applications development work. Prepares long-range systems projects/plans with priority recommendations. 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, incumbents in this position meet the criteria for exempt status.