Senior Director of Information Systems & Technology
Advancement Services
Summary of Job Details
Under general direction, the Senior Director of Information Systems & Technology (“Sr. Director”) leads and manages the Division of Institutional Advancement’s information systems area to achieve departmental, divisional and institutional business objectives. Provides a high level of technical expertise and understanding on all Institutional Advancement data systems and develops associated business processes for optimal operation. Provides supervision of all data acquisition, data integrity, database administration, technical training and support services. Supervises and provides technical guidance to programming staff. Develops Oracle procedures and packages; configures application’s forms using Ellucian’s* configuration utility. Provides technical consulting on the development of complex systems including the development of associated strategic plan/scope and timelines for projects, guides application development, systems design, technical functionality, reporting requirements and analysis. Responsible for the full evaluation of the front-end and back-end of technical systems, including all programming, reporting, server(s) administration, data integrity and training. Explores, recommends, and implements new and emerging technologies and version upgrades to maintain state of the art data collection and extraction to support short- and long-range campus-wide fundraising goals. Oversees a complex training program providing direction for database use data integrity, user support and training related functions for 200+ staff. Participates in departmental and divisional planning and decision making and serves as a member of the UC Office of the President Data Managers group, providing information and expertise for developing system-wide policy, procedures and best practices. *Ellucian Advance system is UC Santa Barbara’s comprehensive fundraising and constituent relational database system of over 350,000+ records with each record occupying potentially 2,000+ data elements for alumni, donors, friends, corporations, and other current or potential supporters of Institutional Advancement’s fundraising and public relations mission.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in related field
- 7-9 years of progressively responsible technical management experience in university advancement or development management. Skills set must be specific to advancement data and systems integration, gift reporting and analysis, data security, prospect data management and advancement services.
- 7-9 years of technical leadership providing an enterprise CRM fundraising software system infrastructure support (network, desktop computers, server virtualization, identity management, security, data integration and business intelligence) in a high availability production and test environment.
- 7-9 years of proven technical experience in implementing, upgrading, patching and maintaining support for enterprise CRM fundraising software systems and multiple related third-party integrated systems.
- 4-6 years with demonstrated ability providing technical leadership and direction to a diverse collaborative technical team supporting current fundraising methodologies and goals
Special Conditions of Employment
- May be asked to work occasional evenings and/or weekends due to seasonal workload and/or to meet critical deadlines.
● UCSB is a Tobacco-Free environment
● Satisfactory conviction history background check
Budgeted Salary Range: $140,000 – $160,000 / yr.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. To review detailed job description and online please visit: www.jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 67041.
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