Sr. Executive & VIP Endpoint Support Specialist

University of Miami; Avenue (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Tuition remission

Job summary

University of Miami is seeking a Sr. Executive & VIP Endpoint Support Specialist to deliver white-glove, confidential technology support for senior leaders at the Medical Campus in Miami, FL.

The role emphasizes high-touch endpoint, mobile, and audiovisual support and requires autonomous handling of complex issues. The position involves cross-functional coordination with IT, security, and leadership, ensuring executive productivity and continuity across environments.

Qualifications

• Associate degree in relevant field is required.
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience.
• Learning agility and teamwork are essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-touch technical support to executives and VIPs, serving as escalation point.
• Understand executive technology preferences and proactively identify risks and gaps.
• Coordinate complex travel-related tech needs and off-site support.
• Lead cross-functional escalations and ensure timely resolution of high-impact incidents.
• Design, implement, and optimize executive endpoint and audiovisual environments.

Skills

Executive support

VIP tech support

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Associate degree

Job description

The University of Miami Health System ("UHealth") IT Department has an exciting opportunity for a full-time Sr. Executive & VIP Endpoint Support Specialist to join our team in a full-time, onsite capacity at the Medical Campus in Miami, Florida.

The Sr. Executive & VIP Endpoint Support Specialist provides highly specialized, confidential, and mission‑critical technology support to senior University leadership and other designated VIPs, including the President, Provost, Senior Vice Presidents, and their respective offices. This role delivers white‑glove, relationship‑based endpoint, mobile, and audiovisual support for executive computing environments where downtime, security incidents, or service disruptions carry significant institutional, reputational, and operational risk. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role serves as the primary escalation point for complex, high impact issues and plays a critical role in ensuring executive technology readiness across environments. In addition to advanced technical execution, the position proactively identifies risks, drives resolution of high visibility incidents, and leads cross-functional coordination across IT and business stakeholders.

Core Responsibilities:

• Provides dedicated, high-touch technical support to executives and VIPs, serving as the primary escalation point for complex and high-risk endpoint, mobile, and presentation issues.
• Maintains deep understanding of executive technology preferences, workflows, and environments while proactively identifying risks, gaps, and opportunities to enhance executive productivity and continuity.
• Supports and oversees executive offices, residences, and approved off-site locations, including advanced planning and coordination for complex travel-related technology needs.
• Owns and drives resolution of the most complex, high‑impact technology incidents affecting executive leadership, Board‑level activities, and high‑visibility institutional events.
• Leads and oversees cross‑functional escalations with infrastructure, security, applications, vendors, and leadership teams, ensuring timely resolution and accountability across all stakeholders.
• Troubleshoots, resolves, and advises on advanced hardware and software issues across Windows, macOS, and mobile platforms, influencing long‑term solutions and supportability.
• Designs, implements, and optimizes executive endpoint environments, ensuring reliability, security, scalability, and alignment with enterprise standards and evolving executive needs.
• Delivers high‑priority on‑site and remote technical support with extended availability, including after‑hours coverage and critical event support with minimal tolerance for failure.
• Designs, implements, and governs executive audiovisual and conference room environments, including complex hybrid meeting and presentation technologies.
• Provides real‑time, “stay‑with” support for Board‑level meetings, executive sessions, and high‑visibility events where service disruption is not acceptable.
• Safeguards, assesses, and mitigates risks within highly confidential executive environments, ensuring adherence to institutional security standards while balancing usability and risk exposure.
• Partners and influences Information Security and enterprise stakeholders to proactively manage executive level security risks, incidents, and evolving threat landscapes.
• Evaluates, selects, and oversees vendors and external partners supporting non‑standard technologies, ensuring service quality, accountability, and alignment with executive expectations.
• Communicates, documents, and advises by translating complex technical issues into executive‑ready insights and serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on technology strategy, risk management, and executive support models.
• Adheres to University and unit‑level policies and safeguards University assets.
• Adheres to University and unit‑level policies and safeguards University assets.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Associate degree in relevant field required
• Minimum 7 years of relevant experience required
• Learning Agility: Ability to learn new procedures, technologies, and protocols, and adapt to changing priorities and work demands.
• Teamwork: Ability to work collaboratively with others and contribute to a team environment.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using office software, technology, and relevant computer applications.
• Communication: Strong and clear written and verbal communication skills for interacting with colleagues and stakeholders.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth‑University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading‑edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub‑specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff

The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service. A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System (“UHealth”) have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation. The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit welcome.miami.edu/about‑um to learn more about our points of pride. The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.