Associate Director, Network

Open Date 12/19/2018

Requisition Number PRN19205B

Job Title Associate Director IT

Working Title Associate Director, Network

Job Grade H

FLSA Code Executive

Patient Sensitive Job Code? No

Standard Hours per Week 40

Full Time or Part Time? Full Time

Shift Day

Work Schedule Summary

M-F.TBD.

VP Area President

Department 01555 - UIT INFRASTRUCTURE & OPS

Location Campus

City Salt Lake City, UT

Type of Recruitment External Posting

Pay Rate Range $75,900/yr. to $148,100/yr.

Close Date

Open Until Filled Yes

Job Summary

The Associate Director, Network reports to the Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for providing strategic and tactical leadership for the University of Utah enterprise network and its ongoing sustainable operations, which supports the academic, research and healthcare missions of the University. The Associate Director is responsible for managing relationships with key technology vendors and suppliers, internal and external business partners, senior IT management and key stakeholders to ensure strategic goals are met. The Associate Director will work within the campus IT governance processes to ensure projects and initiatives align with campus priorities. The Associate Director is responsible for fostering relationships and working with college and departmental IT professionals to understand the needs of the campus community. The Associate Director will work with IT professionals across campus to establish a common network architecture and configuration, and to work towards unified network operations. The Associate Director will provide management oversight for the network team including engineering and operations. The Associate Director is responsible for developing and managing capital and operating budgets and ensuring that budgets align with strategic and institutional priorities. The Associate Director works closely with the IT finance team on revenue and cost tracking and reconciliation. The Associate Director works closely with the Information Securtity Office to ensure that our network architecture, technology, processes and controls conform with security best practices.

AboutUIT: University Information Technology (UIT), the central IT service provider for campus, reports to the Chief Information Officer and is responsible for many of the University of Utah’s most critical common IT resources including the campus network; the Campus Information Services (CIS) portal; UMail, telephone, and online collaboration services; high performance and research computing; information security; teaching and learning technologies; software licensing; and a host of other systems and services. For more information aboutUITvisit http://www.it.utah.edu.

About the University: Located in Salt Lake City, in the foothills of the Wasatch Mountains, the University of Utah is the flagship institution of the State of Utah’s system of higher education and a member of thePAC-12 Conference. Salt Lake City combines the amenities of a major metropolitan area of more than one million people with the friendliness and ease of living of a small, Western city. Seven major ski resorts are within an hour’s drive from campus, and opportunities to pursue activities from biking to hiking to fishing abound. Salt Lake is also home to the Utah Symphony and Opera, the Utah Ballet, several professional sports teams, and a wide range of other cultural and recreational activities. http://www.employment.utah.edu/staff/work.php

Responsibilities

This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

Work Environment and Level of Frequency typically required

Nearly Continuously: Office environment.

Physical Requirements and Level of Frequency that may be required

Nearly Continuously: Sitting, hearing, listening, talking.

Often: Repetitive hand motion (such as typing), walking.

Seldom: Bending, reaching overhead.

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in related computer science area, or equivalency required; plus six years of progressively more responsible management experience; and demonstrated leadership, human relations and effective communication skills also required.

Department Preferred Experience:

• Proven experience as a leader over large scale enterprise services

• Experience aligning costs and on-going revenue to meet business objectives

• Skilled in developing technology and product roadmaps for products/services

• Thorough understanding of service management disciplines and processes

• Excellent knowledge of change management principles

• Strong background in effective performance evaluation for teams and individuals

• Experience with academic, research and healthcare IT

• Experience in developing a network strategic plan and successful execution of the plan

• Solid understanding of overall network design and architecture

• Experience with structured cabling and the importance of Layer 1 in an enterprise network.

• Experience managing 3rd party vendors

• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate at all levels of an organization

• Excellent skills in concensus building

• Experience with software defined networking

• Experience with networking in a hybrid and multi-cloud environment

• Experience designing and implementing network solutions to support IoT

• Strong experience with network security and related technologies

• Proven track record as a thought leader with providing network architectures, technologies and services to meet diverse business requirements

Competence in all of the following areas:

• Managing and developing resources in a matrixed environment

• Excellent planning skills

• Excellent prioritization and delegation skills

• Outstanding leadership and organizational skills

• Excellent problem-solving ability

• Timely decision making

• Creativity and innovation management

• Political savvy

• Building effective teams

• Interpersonal savvy and strong peer relationships

• Managing and measuring work

• Drive for results

Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.

Preferences

Type Benefited Staff

Special Instructions Summary

Additional Information

The University of Utah is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in its workforce. In compliance with applicable federal and state laws, University of Utah policy of equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, veteran’s status, status as a qualified person with a disability, or genetic information. Individuals from historically underrepresented groups, such as minorities, women, qualified persons with disabilities, and protected veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. Veterans’ preference is extended to qualified applicants, upon request and consistent with University policy and Utah state law.

To inquire about this posting, email: employment@utah.edu or call 801-581-2300. Reasonable accommodations in the application process will be provided to qualified individuals with disabilities. To request an accommodation or for further information about University AA/EO policies, please contact the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action, 201 S. Presidents Cr., Rm 135, (801) 581-8365 (V/  TDD  ), email: oeo@umail.utah.edu .

The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). To be eligible for retirement contributions, you must be hired into a benefit-eligible position. Certain new hires are automatically assigned to the  URS  retirement plan and other employees with prior  URS  service, may elect to enroll in the  URS  within 30 days of hire. Regardless of whether they are hired into a benefit-eligible position or not, individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from  URS  must notify the Benefits Department upon hire. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801)366-7770 or (800)695-4877 or the University’s Benefits Department at (801)581-7447 for information.

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.