Strategic IT Administrator – Public Sector (Hybrid)

State of Illinois; Springfield (IL); Hybrid; USD 151,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Work Schedules

Paid Holidays

Job summary

Illinois Department of Human Services is seeking an Information Technology Strategic Administrator to coordinate enterprise IT strategy and align DHS priorities with DoIT standards. You will lead cross‑department collaboration, manage complex business and system requirements, and ensure compliance with enterprise IT policies.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and change management skills, including supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Requires completion of four years of college.
• Four years of progressively responsible administrative experience in analytics, reporting, and strategic planning for a public or private organization.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the statewide DHS Information Technology Strategic Administrator.
• Facilitates high-level communication between DHS program areas and DoIT to ensure mutual understanding of goals, constraints, and expectations, including articulating business system needs and long-term strategic priorities to ensure full alignment with technology standards, compliance requirements and enterprise-wide goals.
• Coordinates DHS business requirements and priorities with DoIT’s enterprise architecture and project management functions by leading the end-to-end collection, analysis and documentation of complex business and system requirements from diverse DHS stakeholders.
• Monitors business side readiness and adoption to design and execute formal change management and communication strategy aligned with the agency’s information strategy.
• Performs as a procurement liaison with DoIT providing budgetary and contract oversight for information strategy related procurements and contracts.

Skills

IT governance

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Change management

Education

4-year college degree

Job description

Illinois Department of Human Services is seeking an Information Technology Strategic Administrator to coordinate enterprise IT strategy and align DHS priorities with DoIT standards. You will lead cross‑department collaboration, manage complex business and system requirements, and ensure compliance with enterprise IT policies.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and change management skills, including supervisory responsibilities.