Job Role Description

IT and Engineering > Vice President of Information Technology

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205330.0000 268190.0000 344970.0000

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Short Description:

Oversee an organization’s technology initiatives, IT changes, and updates to all projects. Assess IT systems and make decisions on investments and the implementation of future technology. Develop policies, standards, and objectives, participate in training sessions, and help recruit new talent. Create budgets and authorize purchases with assistance from other executives and managers.

Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Champion and implement a strategic technology and financial plan which strives for optimized business results by prioritizing technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technologies.
  • Oversees the technical development, selection, testing, deployment, training, and operations/support of all I.S. applications.
  • Develop and implement application roadmaps, consolidation, and embedded vendor replacement/migration plans.
  • Maintains close relationships with management of user and affiliate communities to ensure that system needs are being met or exceeded.
  • Represents the I.T. Department in senior-level work groups, teams, committees, and/or meetings, both within the company and with external entities as well.
  • Identifies significant cost reduction or revenue enhancement opportunities through technology with customers.

Skills / Requirements / Qualifications

  • Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
  • Coordination: Adjusting actions concerning others' actions.
  • Monitoring: Monitoring/assessing the performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
  • Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
  • Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.
  • Time Management: Managing one's own time and the time of others.
  • Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
  • Writing: Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the audience's needs.
  • Management of Personnel Resources: Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
  • Systems Analysis: Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
  • Complex Problem Solving: Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
  • Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
  • Management of Financial Resources: Determining budgets and spending to get the work done and accounting for these expenditures.
  • Social Perceptiveness: Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
  • Systems Evaluation: Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance relative to the system's goals.
  • Active Learning: Understanding new information's implications for current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
  • Management of Material Resources: Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do specific work.
  • Service Orientation: Actively looking for ways to help people.

Job Zones

  • Education: Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
  • Related Experience: A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations.
  • Job Training: Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, or vocational training.
  • Job Zone Examples: Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include accountants, sales managers, database administrators, teachers, chemists, art directors, and cost estimators.
  • Specific Vocational Preparation in years:  2-4 years of preparation (7.0 to < 8.0)

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