Chief Technology Officer
Join one of the nation’s most comprehensive academic medical centers, University of Chicago Medicine, in the role of Chief Technology Officer
In this role, the CTO will partner with the CBIS leadership team to lead the information technology direction for the enterprise. The CTO has overall responsibility for managing technology infrastructure planning and deployment, providing technology vision, enabling innovation and understanding the Information Technology trends that can create business value.
He/she also:
- Develops and deploys services including but not limited to service desk, field services, and desktop engineering.
- Influences technical and architectural aspects of enterprise-wide business decisions, and proposes the basic IT philosophies and directions related to planning for and acquiring advanced information technology.
- Is responsible for assessing organizational telecommunication and architectural technical needs and proposing appropriate technologies and services to enable the enterprise to meet strategic and tactical objectives.
Ultimately, the CTO is accountable for all IT Infrastructure performance, operation, and strategy to meet business and innovation goals of the enterprise.
Job Scope/Complexity:
Responsible for a multi-million dollar budget including both capital and operating expenses. Budget funding comes from budget allocations and chargebacks. The CTO is responsible for creating and managing an appropriate mix of funding sources while balancing user needs with institutional strategy. Units and costs of chargeback rates must be created and managed with transparency and clarity.
You'll thrive in this position if you:
- Strengthen Collaboration– you put the organizations interests and customer needs ahead of your own. You identify and create effective working collaborations with others; establish good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and offer support. You present sound reasons and recommendations that link to the needs of those impacted; obtain agreement to support ideas; leverage win-win solutions to ensure others take action.
- Make Thoughtful Decisions– you identify issues, problems and opportunities; proactively recognize the need for improvement. You work with others to develop a sense of common purpose; understand different perspectives on issues; gathers and examines information available. You generate alternatives - Create relevant options, including financial and resource implications, for addressing problems and opportunities. You select appropriate action - Formulate clear decision criteria; evaluates options by considering implications and consequences; chooses an effective option. You commit to implementation and work with a sense of urgency and a bias for action to implement the decision.
- Promote Innovation – you combine ideas in a unique way or make connections between ideas that may appear to be different; explore situations from multiple perspectives, seek alternative ways to define problems. You are open to diverse thoughts and approaches by others. You test solutions, gather feedback on effectiveness, review impact on the results and modify appropriately to product expected results.
- Communicate with Impact– you focus on the message of others, provide undivided attention, and defer judgment. You convey messages logically, simply, and with confidence. You check for understanding by asking questions, seeking clarity and responding accordingly.
Qualifications
A Bachelor’s degree coupled with a minimum of 10 years IT experience, including 5 years leading directors, managers and staff, is required. An advanced degree in a technology or business field coupled and proven experience leading large scale, complex projects is desired. Additional education may substitute for required experience and additional related experience may substitute for required education.
Applicants must possess proven skills and experience in: writing and verbal communications, presenting to groups, budget management, strategic planning and large scale, complex project management. Applicants must possess an advanced, conceptual knowledge of technologies within all areas of his/her organization.
Why Join Us:
We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, The University of Chicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion
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The University of Chicago Medical Center is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.