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TECH000 : Department Head

TECH000 : Department Head

JerseySTEMWashington, DC, US
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Overview

This is a pro-bono volunteer position.

JerseySTEM is looking for talented professionals across our departments to commit time and energy as long-term engagement for our mission to provide STEM education to underrepresented middle school girls.

The Head of the IT department manages a team of 4-6 technical leads (and their respective associates) supporting the following technologies : GSuite, Salesforce, Jira, Slack.

This is not a technical job, this is a people management job.

Responsibilities

  • As part of the executive committee, represent the IT department
  • Run the department weekly team meeting
  • Set SLA goals for each department
  • Promote best practice of documentation, grooming the succession
  • Maintain a culture of openness, sharing and welcoming input / feedback.
  • No turf or pride of ownership : the goal is to create programs to serve the kids.

Qualifications

  • Have a service mentality : Business / Users are your clients
  • Ability to build and lead a team : articulate overall strategy, get buy in from team, get leads to work together
  • Communicate, communicate, communicate
  • Sense of urgency : getting things done today is better than getting them done tomorrow
  • Cheerleader in chief for the technology department
  • Exposure to all or some of these technologies
  • Obsessive documenter
  • 8-10 hours per week, 12+ month commitment
  • This is a pro-bono volunteer position.

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