Responsibilities
- Designs and proposes comprehensive vision and strategy for how new/improved reporting, data management, and marketing automations strategies can further Advancement goals.
- Champions and drives adoption of the data strategy and culture of data-driven decision-making, and innovation throughout the organization.
- Recruits, develops, and leads a high-performing team of technology professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Drives team success by ensuring work aligns with critical business initiatives, providing clear direction and prioritization of projects.
- Strengthens the team’s knowledge of Advancement business priorities and processes, fostering active engagement with colleagues across Advancement and the University community.
- Advances and sustains a developing data governance program that boosts data quality, speeds and standardizes data sharing, and ensures privacy and security across all systems and processes.
- Designs and executes strategies that equip Advancement business groups with timely, intuitive reporting solutions that enable smarter, data-driven decisions and maximize the value of technology tools.
- Launches and leads a marketing automation program that drives measurable results across multiple channels, leveraging controlled experiments, advanced segmentation, and attribution analysis to generate insights and increase conversion rates.
- Proactively engages with leaders of partner business units to understand their objectives and align data strategies with their needs and goals.
- Oversees a portfolio of projects to bring the vision and strategy to life.
- Drives planning, timelines, resource allocation, and clear communication with stakeholders.
- Monitors emerging technologies and leverages AI and automation to continually enhance efficiency and increase capacity.
- Seeks opportunities for professional development that will enhance job performance, including building networks within the University and with colleagues at peer institutions and with an eye towards broadly diversifying the advancement profession.
- Manages managers and professional staff.
- Establishes performance goals, allocates resources and assesses policies for direct subordinates.
- Develops departmental plans to maintain administrative data.
- Ensures that the data is accessible, easy-to-use, flexible, and suitable for various analytical purposes, including joint analyses across multiple domains and interactions across multiple systems.
- Develops additional data warehouse and reporting environments as needed.
- Manages relationships with the University's primary software suppliers for end-user data access, query, reporting, and display.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Team
Team size: multiple teams of managers and/or professional staff. Structure: Leads a dynamic and growing team of data and technology professionals. Manages managers and professional staff.
Additional Information
- This position has a hybrid work schedule which includes weekly in-office presence.
- Standard office environment.
- Travel to campus and/or non-campus locations for University business.
- Work evenings and weekends as needed.
- This position is located in Hyde Park at 5235 South Harper Court.
- Application Documents: Resume/CV (required), Cover Letter, addressed to Hiring Committee (preferred)
- Drug Test Required: No
- Health Screen Required: No
- Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required: No
- Benefits Eligible: Yes
- All offers of employment are contingent upon a background check that includes a review of conviction history.
