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Chief Information Officer & Clinical Assist Professor, University Michigan School of Information

How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and experience that directly relate to this position.

Job Summary

The School of Information (UMSI) at the University of Michigan is seeking outstanding applicants for a Clinical Assistant Professor who will also provide leadership for the School's Information Technology function. UMSI is refocusing its information technology service organization to support the faculty, students and staff responsible for achieving the School's mission of enabling people using information - with technology - to build a better world.

UMSI has recently completed a comprehensive information technology strategic plan that is designed to take advantage of the capabilities of the School?s community of scholars and the rapidly evolving information technology services environment in which the School operates. The School is critically dependent on reliable production IT services for its educational and research missions. It also must support leading edge IT capabilities to enable innovation in research and learning environments.

Because this set of activities is so closely coupled to the School?s academic mission, the School has decided to seek the appointment of a clinical faculty member to this leadership role. The appointment will be composed of a 50% 9 month role of Clinical Assistant Professor and a 50% 12 month role of Chief Information Officer (CIO). We expect the successful applicant to be a full participant in the School's academic community while also providing leadership for the School's IT service function. To enable the CIO to focus on strategy and academically critical IT functions, UMSI's Administrative Director will work with her or him to support the IT group's personnel and production management activities. We also expect the CIO to undertake teaching, service and research appropriate to his or her half time role as a clinical faculty member.

We seek a creative, experienced, energetic leader to be the first CIO at UMSI. We seek an individual to work with the UMSI community to define the vision for UMSI IT environment, develop strategies to implement that vision, manage the resulting program to meet School requirements, and collaborate with other university and college IT support units to improve effectiveness and achieve scale economies.

As a Chief Information Officer at UMSI, we seek a candidate that is able to build and maintain strategic partnerships with the wide variety of stakeholders necessary to establish innovative information technology services. These partnerships include, but are not limited to, external vendors and cloud computing services, other departmental IT organizations, central IT organizations, peer institutions, and our own community of faculty, staff and students.

Candidates will be expected to provide visionary and strategic leadership in how the broad information needs of the School, beyond traditional IT functions, can be addressed in efficient and innovative ways. These information needs include effective navigation of a changing scholarly publishing landscape, issues balancing personal privacy with advanced analytic capabilities, innovations in licensing and sharing (such as the application of Creative Commons licenses to academic works and activities) and changes in digital learning.

We expect the Chief Information Officer at UMSI to take a lead role in integrating new technology capabilities into the School's operations to enhance the strategic use of IT to fulfill the School's goals. The CIO will be responsible for researching disruptive technologies, and identify those that can support breakthrough innovations for the School's learning and research activities.

As Clinical Assistant Professor, we seek a candidate able to translate her or his competence and experience in IT leadership to courses relevant to the School's degree programs. In particular, we seek a candidate who will reinforce the UMSI's capabilities in health informatics, personal information technology and IT management.

Candidates will be expected to make substantive creative contributions in teaching and professional service and their work will be expected to be consistent with the stated mission of the School. Less emphasis will be placed on scholarly publication and a formal research record, but candidates will be expected to achieve outstanding work at the level of professional engagement and practice. As with all faculty, criteria for appointment will include evaluation of the impact of the faculty member's work in the community of their peers as well as those they serve in their practice, but for clinical faculty, impact will be measured in ways beyond scholarly publication.

Candidates will be expected to demonstrate evidence of excellent teaching and mentoring ability, and candidates will be expected to play an active role in instructional development, initiation of new courses, innovation in instruction delivery and content, and contribution to overall curriculum design and development. The School's strong commitment to service carries with it the expectation of service to the university and external communities, and this service will be expected to have impact and influence on the communities served.

Responsibilities*

Strategic Leadership

-Establish and direct the strategic goals, policies and procedures around the use of information technology to support the mission of the School.

- Effectively communicate the strategic benefits of advanced information and communications technologies by developing information materials and presenting briefings and demonstrations to the community.

-Assess and develop strategies to capitalize on external opportunities and threats around technology and information policy.

IT Management

-In partnership with UMSI's Administrative Director, establish the necessary management practices to ensure alignment between the School's IT strategy and day-to-day operations.

-Participate in budgeting and planning.

-Participate in procurement and partnership negotiations.

IT Innovation

- Assess and integrate new and emerging technologies into UMSI.

- Expand the use of contextual inquiry approaches to anticipate the requirements of faculty and researchers by understanding teaching, learning and research processes and matching them to the next waves of technology.

- Integrate prototyping and evaluation efforts into learning and research processes.

- Implement assessment activities in order to measure project and overall unit results both qualitatively and quantitatively.

- Increase the ability of the School to deploy advanced technology.

Partnership Development

- Work with other University information technology production units to leverage their platforms for testbed activities and to effect knowledge and technology transfer.

- Work with campus-wide initiatives in order to enhance the School's investments in advanced technologies.

- Establish and sustain partnerships with corporations, other universities, and government agencies working on related efforts.

- Participate in the School's teaching mission by helping other faculty use information technology in their courses. Create and/or teach courses that motivate students to apply information technology to realize their entrepreneurial, professional and research goals.

- Work with faculty to enhance and support the information technology required to support their teaching and research.

- Maintain and develop relationships with partner organizations in Michigan and nationally.

Required Qualifications*

Masters degree in business administration, computer science, or information science or an equivalent combination of education and professional experience.

Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience leading information technology innovation and applied research and development efforts, including five or more years of supervisory experience.

Experience in developing and delivering courses and learning environments.

Extensive experience with a wide range of IT-enabled teaching, learning and research.

Experience with technology transfer processes for bringing research or teaching innovations to commercial markets.

Demonstrated ability to effectively apply the successes and approaches used by one user community to other disciplines.

Outstanding attention to detail and follow-up, including a proven ability to handle multiple research projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

Experience with production IT environments and technology and knowledge transfer from research to production.

Outstanding oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills dealing with both non-academic and academic audiences, including a diverse range of students, faculty, staff and administrators.

Experience working in higher education.

Desired Qualifications*

Experience working in an information school.

Demonstrated excellence teaching in a professional degree environment.

Knowledge of UM schools and colleges, policies, procedures and regulations.

Experience working with IT standards development.

Knowledge of federal, particularly NSF and NIH, initiatives related to the IT infrastructure for teaching, learning and research.

Evidence of obtaining and sustaining external funding.

Experience in managing industry/academic partnerships.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

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http://umjobs.org/job_detail/95197/clinical_assistant_professor_and_chief_information_officer_school_of_information