Director, Academic Technology

UMass Chan Medical School; Worcester (MA); Presencial; USD 150 000 - 190 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

UMass Chan Medical School seeks a Director of Academic Technology to lead strategic planning, resource allocation, and implementation of institutional software for academic operations. You will serve as SME and consultant to students, faculty, and staff, guiding governance and continuous process improvement across the university.

The role requires building a collaborative leadership style, managing a development team, and delivering scalable IT solutions within a dynamic academic environment.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree in information systems management or CS.
• 5+ years of management/supervisory experience in a large IT organization with at least 4 in academic/research IT and 3 years in an Academic Medical Center
• Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and enterprise-wide perspective with collaborative leadership and strong communication
• Strong project management skills and ability to lead with technical and non-technical users
• Ability to lead, manage, and deal with ambiguity in a dynamic research community

Responsabilidades

• Lead strategic planning, resourcing, programming and implementation of institutional software for supporting academic operations.
• Manage and lead the academic development team supporting Student Information Systems and integrations.
• Promote collaboration tools for the academic mission across multiple campuses.
• Ensure academic systems are available for students, faculty and staff.
• Develop governance and sustainable support models for academic IT services.

Conhecimentos

Management experience

Strategic thinking

Project management

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Formação académica

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems Management or Computer Science

Master's degree preferred

Ferramentas

PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Position Summary

Under the general direction of the Associate Chief Information Officer or designee, the Director of Academic Technology is responsible for the strategic planning, resourcing, programming and implementation of institutional software for supporting academic operations at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. This includes designing, developing and implementing and supporting various technological solutions to enable academic operations and continuous process improvement. In addition, he/she will serve as SME, and consultant to the Medical School students, faculty and staff. He/she will perform diverse and complex duties in a manner consistent with a dynamic and active academic education and research community.

Essential Functions

Management Process

• Develop goals around Academic Technology at the Medical School. Socialize and gain adoption of those goals across the various constituents
• Promote the collaboration tools for the academic mission across the five UMass campuses through education and community building.
• Ensure that the appropriate academic systems are available for students, faculty and staff at UMMS
• Lead the evolution, installation, maintenance, configuration, and customization of the academic infrastructure and facilitate the strategic needs of the academic community
• Develop recommendations for creating a collaborative environment for end user services, infrastructure access and the evaluation of new technologies/products
• Manage and lead the academic development team supporting Student Information Systems and integrations, ensuring effective team management and delivery.

Coaching

• Facilitate accommodations and solutions for the academic community related to IT services and infrastructure utilization that are outside of standard School practices
• Lead the Academic Technology governance process for managing the delivery of academic based requests
• Develop the model for providing the sustainable support required for academic initiatives at a campus-wide level, as well as the ability to support the individual departments in the administration and support of their local environments
• Coordinate and provide resource to activities in support of UMMS' three graduate schools and academic offices
• Assist or lead in the coordination of optimizing academic processes and automating academic systems [identification, build and acquisition

Consulting

• Provide consultation to UMass students and faculty in the utilization of local support environments and academic tools for education
• Provide technical resource for quality assurance, debugging/tuning and in the software development architectures for the three UMMS schools and academic offices

Compliance

• Conduct and manage technology education programs, workshops and conferences
• Develop and manage sustainable budget models for academic initiatives
• Coordinate support services and models for current and future services
• Encourage that department based academic IT systems meet all university, state and federal requirements for data sharing, integrity, security and business continuity

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Level Degree in Information Systems Management or Computer Science related majors
• 5 years of management/supervisory experience in large IT organization with at least 4 in the field of academic/research IT and 3 years in an Academic Medical Center
• Demonstrated strategic thinking abilities and an enterprise-wide perspective, effective negotiator and consensus builder in an academic setting and will have a collaborative leadership style with excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
• Strong project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with technical and non-technical users
• Strong interpersonal and consensus-building skills
• Ability to lead, manage, and deal with ambiguity in a dynamic and growing research community

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Level Degree or equivalent
• Masters in Computers Engineering or Computer Science, MBA or equivalent degree(s), with proven experience in providing solutions in a academic environment
• Demonstrate data proficiency and prior experience managing development teams
• In-depth understanding of PeopleSoft Campus Solutions

The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School welcomes all qualified applicants and complies with all state and federal anti-discrimination laws.