Executive Officer, Technological Support Services

Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB); Ottawa; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading school board in Ontario is seeking an Executive Officer for Technological Support Services. This role involves providing strategic leadership in IT, ensuring alignment with educational priorities, and leading digital transformation efforts. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of relevant experience, a strong commitment to diversity, and essential certifications. This is a full-time position expected to start in late September 2025.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of experience in IT and digital transformation.
• Experience in educational administration or similar environments.
• Strong commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership to the technology department.
• Align IT strategy with teaching and learning priorities.
• Lead modernizing enterprise resource management systems.

Skills

Project management

IT strategy alignment

Cyber security knowledge

Digital transformation

Education

Post-secondary degree in business or computer science

Professional certification (CISSP, CISM, CISA)

Job description

About the OCDSB: The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is the largest school board in Eastern Ontario and offers students and parents a world of choice for learning. Our nearly 150 schools offer a wide range of programs to promote learning excellence and meet the individual needs of students, parents, and the community at large. Our schools are teaching communities where principals, vice-principals, teachers and support staff nurture student well-being and challenge students to achieve their best.

We are seeking a creative, dynamic, committed leader to join our team:

EXECUTIVE OFFICER, TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT SERVICES

Regular, Full-time

Job Summary

The Executive Officer will provide strategic leadership and direction to a highly effective team within the District’s business and learning technology department, including technology investment planning and procurement, cyber security, and digital information management and transformation.

The Executive Officer ensures that the IT strategy aligns with and continues to advance the District’s teaching and learning priorities. They also lead the modernization of the District’s enterprise resource management systems, while maintaining a stable, robust and secure IT environment, underpinning core organizational processes. They establish strategic service provider partnerships, and coordinate IT security and compliance obligations. The Executive Officer plans, develops, implements, and evaluates information technology programs, policies, and procedures, in alignment with Board and provincial direction and priorities. The Executive Officer also represents the Board to external partners and stakeholders at the local and provincial level. The Executive Officer provides strategic advice, and expertise to the senior staff team and the Board of Trustees on matters related to information technology and digital transformation and cyber security; promotes a culture of digital innovation and transformation with a strong understanding of emerging technologies. The Executive Officer leads the transformational work of the Business and Learning Technology Department with a focus on client service excellence.

Candidate Profile

As the ideal candidate, you are a strategic leader with demonstrated knowledge and experience leading and managing significant projects in IT and digital transformation. A recognized leader in the field, you are intimately aware of current trends in information technology, emerging technologies, cyber security, and digital platforms. A dynamic leader of people, you excel developing and leading a team, preferably in a unionized environment. You have a proven ability to develop and lead multi-year plans and programs, leading innovative system-level change. You are a confident decision-maker within a complex, multi-stakeholder environment, able to identify key details and map out an evidence-based path forward. You have a demonstrated commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion and effective leadership to remove barriers, address anti-Indigenous and anti-Black racism, and are a champion of the advancement of human rights for students, staff and community.

The competencies and skills required are normally acquired through a post-secondary degree in business, computer science or a related field. With extensive experience (10+ years), qualified candidates should also hold one of the following professional certifications: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). A post-graduate degree in business, public administration or a related field would be an asset, as would a professional certification in project management. Experience in educational administration, or similar public or broader public sector environment would also be an asset.

Application Process

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board uses Apply to Education (ATE) to manage applications for all job competitions. OCDSB employees can apply to this job posting using their existing ATE account at ocdsb.simplication.com.

External Applicants: If you do not have an existing ATE account, you will be asked to create one at to apply. You may also choose to submit your application (cover letter and resume) to [e-mail] Please indicate "Executive Officer Application" in the subject line.

Application Deadline: Monday, August 25, 2025 at 4:00 pm

The expected start date for this position is late September 2025.

We thank all applicants that express an interest in this position; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

OCDSB employees serve students, colleagues, families and community partners. We invite people of all abilities, orientations, faiths, ethnicities, races, genders and ages to join us as we create learning and working spaces that honour the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin people, and respect, value and increasingly reflect the diversity of Ottawa. Your lived experience is an essential contribution to deliver the education every student deserves with dignity.

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