Director, IT - Portfolio & Program Management

Company Description

About Adtalem Global Education

Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. Adtalem educates and empowers students with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their communities and make a lasting impact on public health, well-being and beyond. Through equitable access to education, environments that nurture student success, and a focus on expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline in healthcare, Adtalem is building a brighter future for communities and the world.

Adtalem is the parent organization of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

Visit Adtalem.com for more information, and follow on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Adtalem believes in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and innovation, which thrives when we can work flexibly. Depending on your location, this role may be hybrid or remote.

• HYBRID – If you reside within 50 miles of Adtalem offices in Chicago, IL, Addison, IL, Columbia, MD, Minneapolis, MN, and Miramar, FL this role is hybrid, requiring office presence three days a week (Tue, Wed, Thu), with the rest of the workweek spent working from home.

Job Description

Opportunity at a Glance
Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. As the Director, of Information Technology you will be a key leader of IT products and services for 300,000+ students and 10,000 employees, across 5 institutions and 27 campus locations. In this role, the IT Director will be accountable for overseeing and managing all aspects of an organization's information technology systems and operations for the function in which assigned.     

Responsibilities

• People/Talent leadership:

• Responsible for overseeing multiple teams, departments, or functions within an organization. This may include managing multiple projects, budgets, and resources across various areas of IT. Attracts, hires and builds high-performing teams, empowers people and rewards results; achieves results through clearly articulated goals, discernment, priorities and a belief in the positive intentions of our employees. Takes an active role in developing talent. Builds and enables a highly engaged, high performing team. Strong communicator.

• Operational Leadership

• Demonstrates organizational agility and an ability to build a high performance culture e which models the willingness, leadership, and courage to challenge the status quo; fosters creativity; problem solves/acts quickly to activate change, innovation and resilience. Delivers a highly stable, robust environment for Adtalem and enables our business. Thinks “human first” in operational experiences delivered. Shows discipline of execution and delivery.

• Financial leadership:

• Understands the organization’s financial processes. Prepares, justifies and administers her/his budget. Oversees procurement and contracting to achieve desired results. Monitors expenditures and uses cost benefit thinking to (re)set priorities. Focuses on value creation for Adtalem – this includes IT centric cost management and business results. Drives a fiscal disciplined behavior in her/his organization. Thinks long term and short term while managing finance and value creation.

• Technical leadership:

• Demonstrates breadth and depth of professional/technical skills and capabilities required for position; shares knowledge; sets or contributes to the organization's direction within an area of expertise. Leads to drive value for Adtalem through technology. Influences with fluency on technology related change.

• Strategic Leadership:

• They collaborate with executive management and other senior leaders to align IT initiatives with business objectives. Demonstrates the process of using well considered tactics to establish/communicate a vision for an organization or one of its parts. Fluently thinks between needs for today, while planning for the near and far future. Understand the competitive landscape, industry directions. Aligns with Adtalem IT & Digital strategy, builds their own game plan, communicates and delivers on the strategy.

• Performs other duties as assigned

• Complies with all policies and standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Required and
• higher in related discipline Required and
• Master's Degree Required
• 10+ years