Job Information
Kansas Employer Information Technology Director in Wichita, Kansas
This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/12975961
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Hires and trains IT Staff.
- Schedules, organizes, and assigns projects to members of the IT team.
- Conducts performance evaluations that are timely and constructive.
- Handles disciplinary actions of employees as needed and in accordance with company policy.
- Leads development and implementation processes for the organization/s IT systems and department.
- Develops and implements business continuity protocols to minimize disruption to business operations in the event of emergency situations or data loss.
- Establishes efficiency and efficacy standards, providing recommendations for improvement of IT infrastructure.
- Regularly scan and evaluate the organizations current systems to find any risks, vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities.
- Analyzes IT infrastructure and systems performance to assess operating costs, productivity levels, upgrade requirements, and other metrics and needs.
- Oversees security of systems, networks, and enterprise information.
- Facilitates IT security audits or investigations.
- Develops and maintains relationships with external IT vendors and service providers.
- Coordinates multisite IT systems via enterprise resource planning (ERP).
- Manages network environment of 500 users.
- Manages hardware, software, and web-based infrastructures
- Server management and maintenance
- Data-Backup and disaster recovery.
- Manages Office 365 (Outlook Suite, Teams, etc.), Google Suite, and Azure AD.
- Provides remote access support.
- Manages, Installs, and troubleshoots the Verkada camera system, Cisco switches, firewalls, Ubiquity WIFI system, EMR system, and VPN.
- Collaborates closely with other departments to understand their IT requirements, needs and preferences and will install these systems accordingly.
- Establishes on-call 24/7 365 days a year schedule for team.
- Ensures HIPAA and PCI compliance is maintained at all times
- Works with third party support engineers to resolve technical issues.
- Performs other related duties as may be assigned by manger.
Required Knowledge and Skills
- A strong commitment to Heartsprings values or excellence, celebration, leadership, service, possibility, and integrity.
- Must exhibit highest professional integrity and ability to work confidentially with discretion.
- Capability of organizing, conceptualizing, and prioritizing objectives.
- Thorough understanding of IT and practical applications to support the companys goals.
- Proficient in the use of e-mail, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software and use of the Internet to access data, maintain records, generate reports, and communicate with others.
- Demonstrated organizational skills in handling, directing, and prioritizing multiple and complex assignments/projects and maintaining records.
- Demonstrated effective supervisory, interpersonal and leadership skills; ability to work independently with little direction.
- Uses expertise to influence and advocate for improved practice and to advance organizational outcomes.
- Demonstrates the ability to work productively within and across teams to achieve goals that are customer centered.
- Applies a customer centered approach to deliver and exchange information that leads to mutual understanding.
- Demonstrates ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
- Demonstrates advancing knowledge, skills and abilities in role and in field of practice.
- Demonstrated experience in manag ng a high-volume workflow office.
- Demonstrated experience of working effectively in a team environment with a customer service focus.
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; and effectively present information to top management teams.
- Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the community.
- Skilled in resolving conflicts and mediating disputes.
\ Educational, Experience, and Licensure Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science required, masters degree or MBA preferred.
- At least 10 years of experience managing an IT department.
\ Required Organizational Competencies
Advocacy: Uses expertise to influence and advocate for improved practice and to advance organizational outcomes.
Analytical Thinking: Demonstrates the ability to analyze information and use logic to address work-related issues and problems.
Collaboration: Demonstrates the ability to work productively