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Job Category: Limited

Employment Type: Regular

Job Profile: IT Director I (Inst)

Job Summary: Are you passionate about leading large-scale initiatives and building high-performing teams? Join our team as the Associate Director of Program and Project Management and play a key leadership role in advancing the university's critical technology, cybersecurity, and transformational changes.

As a member of the Portfolio and Project Management Office (PPMO) leadership team, you will lead a team of professionals responsible for delivering complex, enterprise-wide programs and projects. This role advances program and project management capabilities, strengthens enterprise planning practices, and helps ensure the university's strategic investments deliver meaningful outcomes for students, faculty, researchers, and staff.

Key Responsibilities: • Practice Leadership: Playing a pivotal role in driving our organization's objectives by overseeing the program and project management practices. Your expertise in these functions will be essential to leading the team to deliver the intended value of our portfolio.

• Team Management: Managing a diverse and talented team of professionals will be at the heart of your responsibilities. Your strong leadership and motivational skills will foster collaboration, excellence, and a positive work culture.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Building and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders will be key to achieving our desired outcomes. Your effective communication and negotiation skills will drive successful project delivery and stakeholder satisfaction at its core. 

• Continuous Improvement: Championing a culture of continuous improvement. You will inspire and empower the team to identify opportunities to optimize our practices, enhance operational efficiency, and achieve excellence in our practices and the outcomes we deliver.

• Coaching and Mentoring: Empowering team members to reach their full potential will be a rewarding aspect of your role. Your passion for mentoring and coaching individuals will contribute to their professional growth and career success. 

This position resides within the Portfolio and Project Management Office (PPMO), a department within the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). The PPMO comprises more than 20 professionals providing portfolio management, program management, project management, business analysis, and organizational change management services. The PPMO oversees strategic and high-value IT programs and projects sponsored by DoIT, UW-Madison, and Universities of Wisconsin partners.

The candidate selected for this position may perform a combination of on-site and remote work subject to an approved flexible work arrangement (FWA), which is reviewed and approved annually. Remote work requires successful candidates to possess their own high-speed internet and phone to perform the work on a university provided computer. Per University policy, transportation between home and assigned work location is not payable/reimbursable and will be at the expense of the employee.

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is an exciting and dynamic work environment grounded in organizational principles that include family and personal life/work balance; an inclusive, respectful, and supportive work environment; professional development opportunities; innovation; and alignment with the campus's teaching, learning, and research missions.  DoIT provides core IT infrastructure services to the university, develops and implements services for the university and in some cases, for the Universities of Wisconsin, plays a major role in managing the state-wide higher education network and regional networks.

Key Job Responsibilities: • Serves as a liaison representing the interests of the institution to internal and external stakeholders

• Advises institutional or divisional leadership on information technology operations and business models

• May perform manager functions 

• Directs strategic information technology planning initiatives and establishes objectives for the institution to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, staffing resources in alignment with the strategic plan

• Develops operating policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and unit objectives

• Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees

Department: Division of Information Technology,  Portfolio & Project Management Office (PPMO)

The IT Portfolio & Project Management Office (PPMO) is a collaborative team of program and project managers, business analysts, change managers, and portfolio professionals. In partnership with stakeholders across the university, we play a pivotal role in delivering strategic projects that advance the university’s mission and vision.

Compensation: Starting salary will be based on experience and qualifications. Well qualified applicants can anticipate to earn between $150,000 - $160,000, with final salary based on experience and qualifications.

Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and sick leave; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits. Benefits information can be found at ( https://hr.wisc.edu/benefits/ ). 

Required Qualifications: • Progressively responsible experience in project, program, and portfolio management, including operational leadership responsibilities.

• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives and cultivating strong relationships with leaders, stakeholders, and business units to achieve strategic outcom

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