Located 45 minutes from the Nation’s Capital, nestled in a history-rich community of southern Maryland, The College of Southern Maryland (CSM) is a two-time Aspen recognized institution (top 15% of Community Colleges) with academic programs in over 100 disciplines. CSM is among America’s top 100 producers of Minority Associate Degrees in twenty categories, according to Diverse Issues in Higher Education.  CSM offers excellent health insurance benefits; State Retirement Pension plan; wellness programs; Code Green early closure Fridays in the summer; paid leave for Spring Break and most major holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year.  We are an innovative institution committed to student success and well known for our flexibility to meet student and community needs.

The College of Southern Maryland is searching for an Associate Vice President Information Management/Chief Information Officer who will play a critical role in providing strategic and transformational technology leadership at the college in order to drive technology alignment and cost savings. We are seeking a talented, passionate individual who has at least 10 years of IT experience and can show us:

• A strong track record of IT leadership experience
• Talent for managing people and fostering an environment of positive employee engagement and trust
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating diverse groups to an agreed upon outcome that is aligned with the best interest of the organization
• Experience with the Ellucian Colleague ERP system
• Experience and innovation with higher education technology solutions
• Proven success leading a multi-campus organization through transformation
• Models our values, inspires confidence and encourages excellence in others while fostering a culture of equity, inclusion, and collaboration that embraces the larger college community

The work schedule for this position is 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Flexibility is required.  

College of Southern Maryland conducts background checks in order to ensure the safety and well-being of the college's staff and students.  The final candidate for this position will be subject to the following background checks:  Criminal History Check and Sex Offender Registry Check.
 
This position is open until filled.  For best consideration, apply by 11:59 pm, EST on Friday, May 27, 2022.   The College of Southern Maryland is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

The College of Southern Maryland values the safety of its students, faculty, and staff.  As part of that commitment, the college will require offers of employment to be contingent on the candidate providing proof of being fully vaccinated for COVID-19 prior to the start date of employment.  As a new employee, you will be required to comply with this mandate and all the current campus health and safety protocols.

Essential Functions:

• Works collaboratively to maintain and execute a 3-year IT Plan that provides a clear path and model to improving the effectiveness of the IT organization, operations, and services aligned with the institutional strategic direction
• Updates and maintains IT and Data Governance that drives transformation
• Propels the IT organization in a way that communicates the vision, strategy, priorities, and logistical aspects of IT plans and operations of the college community, providing opportunities for consultation
• Develops long-term approaches to the ERP environment to streamline operation across the organization
• Champions and leads business process transformation across the organization to drive the highest quality experience and lower costs overall for IT
• Supports campus, online, remote and various learning environments across the organization (both academic credit and continuing education/workforce development programs), designs spaces with technology to meet the current and future needs for teaching and learning
• Implements a service orientation for Help Desk, user support, classroom technology, and infrastructure operations, where effective communication with the college community is a hallmark
• Provides leadership in recruiting, hiring, management, and staff assessment/development of college employees in the IT department
• Re-energizes and empowers faculty, staff and end users, and executes the vision for a more modern IT organization

Additional Duties:

• Performs other related work as required.