Director, Corporate Application Services

Covista; Illinois; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life insurance

401k with employer match

Flexible Time Off (FTO)

Job summary

Covista is a national leader in post-secondary education, seeking a Director of Corporate Applications. You will oversee technology delivery for the corporate application portfolio, including ERP/Finance and HRIS/HCM, partnering with executives to prioritize and execute a durable, scalable roadmap.

You will lead cross-functional teams, drive transformation programs, ensure operational excellence, and manage vendor relationships to optimize enterprise performance and data strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive IT experience leading enterprise portfolios.
• 5+ years of people leadership and cross-functional delivery.
• Portfolio leadership across ERP/Finance, HRIS/HCM, Legal, Corporate Affairs.

Responsibilities

• Provide technology delivery and operational accountability across the corporate application portfolio (ERP/Finance, HRIS/HCM, Legal, Corporate Affairs).
• Translate portfolio strategy into sustainable execution and support models with business and digital leaders.
• Lead teams to deliver complex, multi-year enterprise initiatives in ERP and HCM.

Skills

Leadership

Executive presence

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT, CS, Business, or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

ERP/Finance systems

HRIS/HCM systems

Enterprise integrations

Job description

Covista (NYSE: CVSA) is America's largest healthcare educator, serving 100,000 students and supported by a community of 400,000 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 at scale. Covista 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.
For more information, visitcovista.comand follow us onLinkedIn,InstagramandYouTube.

Covista (NYSE: CVSA) is America's largest healthcare educator, serving 100,000 students and supported by a community of 400,000 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 at scale. Covista 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.
For more information, visitcovista.comand follow us onLinkedIn,InstagramandYouTube.

Job Description

Covista is a national leader in post-secondary education and a leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. The Director, Corporate Application Services is the technology delivery and operational leader for Covista's corporate application portfolio. This role provides end-to-end accountability for the execution, integration, operational health, and sustainable support of enterprise platforms supporting Home Office functions. The Director leads people, vendors, platforms, and shared-services engagement; translates business portfolio priorities into an executable technology roadmap; and ensures major initiatives transition successfully into durable operations. The portfolio encompasses enterprise-wide capabilities including ERP/Finance, HRIS/HCM, Legal, and Corporate Affairs.

Corporate Applications Portfolio Leadership

• Provide technology delivery and operational accountability across the corporate application portfolio, including ERP/Finance, HRIS/HCM, Legal, and Corporate Affairs.
• Translate portfolio strategy, roadmaps, and priorities into a sustainable execution and support model, partnering closely with business and digital leaders.
• Integrate initiative delivery with ongoing application support so new capabilities transition into stable, supportable operations.

People and Cross-Functional Leadership

• Attract, develop, and lead high-performing teams responsible for application delivery and operational support; establish clear goals, priorities, accountability, and succession readiness.
• Influence across shared teams and coordinate engagement among Core Tech, development, data and analytics, shared services, vendors, and named program leads.
• Create a collaborative, service-oriented culture that balances business responsiveness, technical discipline, and operational sustainability.

Business Transformation and Delivery Leadership

• Lead the technology execution of complex, multi-year enterprise initiatives that combine platform implementation, integration, data, and business process redesign.
• Establish delivery governance, decision paths, dependency management, risk escalation, and visibility across initiatives while preserving named accountability for major programs.
• Partner with business leaders and delivery teams to assess options, define practical implementation approaches, and sequence work based on value, readiness, risk, and capacity.

Operational Excellence

• Own service health and operational performance for corporate applications, including incident and problem management, platform administration, support transition, continuity, and continuous improvement.
• Strengthen repeatable support practices, platform knowledge, controls, documentation, and service ownership across the portfolio.
• Maintain appropriate awareness of enterprise risk, security, privacy, compliance, audit, and data-governance requirements; partner with accountable functions to address gaps and manage remediation.

Integration, Automation, and Data Strategy

• Guide enterprise integration, API, AI, workflow, and data-management approaches that connect corporate platforms and reduce fragmented solutions.
• Promote scalable architecture, reliable data flows, appropriate reuse, and clear ownership across enterprise systems and shared capabilities.
• Ensure technical decisions support interoperability, maintainability, security, and long-term portfolio sustainability.

Executive Business Partnership and Financial Leadership

• Build trusted, consultative relationships with executives and functional leaders; communicate technology choices, risks, tradeoffs, investment needs, and delivery status with clarity.
• Prepare and administer budgets, oversee procurement and contracting, manage vendors, and apply disciplined cost-benefit thinking to investments and priorities.
• Align the corporate application strategy and operating plan with Covista IT and Digital priorities, enterprise objectives, and evolving business needs.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field. Required.
• Master’s degree in information technology, Business Administration, or related discipline. Preferred.
• Ten (10) years of progressive IT experience, including leadership of enterprise or corporate application portfolios and complex technology delivery. Specific experience with large-scale ERP & HCM system implementation required.
• Five (5) plus years of people leadership and managerial experience, including responsibility for teams, budgets, vendors, and cross-functional delivery.
• Demonstrated portfolio leadership across ERP/Finance, HRIS/HCM, Legal, Corporate Affairs, and related corporate applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead people and influence outcomes across shared, matrixed, and cross-functional teams.
• Experience leading complex, multi-year enterprise transformation initiatives involving technology implementation and business process redesign, specifically in ERP and HCM.
• Strong operational leadership across service ownership, incident and problem management, platform administration, vendor management, risk, and compliance awareness.
• Strong understanding of enterprise integrations, APIs, AI, workflow, data management & reporting, and scalable application architecture.
• Executive presence and consultative business partnership skills, with the ability to communicate strategy, risks, tradeoffs, and investment needs clearly.
• Strong financial, procurement, contract, project, program, and resource-management capabilities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a complex enterprise environment.

Additional Information

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $100,171.61 and $181,034.70. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays
  For more information related to our benefits please visit:
  https://careers.covista.com/benefits
  You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation