Center for User Experience Director
JOB SUMMARY:
This is an amazing opportunity to champion the university vision of a welcoming, empowered, and inclusive community. The Director of the Center for User Experience leads a team of professionals to advance the role of inclusive design in meeting the needs of students, faculty, and staff. The director provides oversight, guidance, advocacy, and support to the university to improve the accessibility and usability of existing and emerging digital experiences and technologies.
The Center for User Experience resides within Academic Technology, a department within the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). DoIT Academic Technology (AT) consists of over 60 dedicated professionals that engage and work closely with university partners and collaborators to provide technology and services that support the teaching and learning missions of the university (https://at.doit.wisc.edu/).
The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) team members are part of an exciting and dynamic work environment grounded in organizational principles that include family and personal life/work balance; an inclusive, respectful, and supportive work environment; professional development opportunities; innovation; and alignment with the campus's teaching, learning, and research missions.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Develops and directs the implementation of strategic plans for enterprise information technology (IT) function(s), program(s), or service(s) to ensure resources are utilized to provide effective administrative, research, outreach, and/or instructional information technology services. May directly manage IT services.
- 20% Directs strategic information technology planning initiatives and establishes objectives for the institution to ensure appropriate use of financial, administrative, staffing resources in alignment with the strategic plan
- 5% Develops operating policies and procedures to comply with regulations, institutional policies, and unit objectives
- 10% Exercises supervisory authority, including hiring, transferring, suspending, promoting, managing conduct and performance, discharging, assigning, rewarding, disciplining, and/or approving hours worked of at least 2.0 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees
- 10% May develop and audit institutional budgets and/or financials
- 20% Serves as a liaison representing the interests of the institution to internal and external stakeholders
- 5% Advises institutional or divisional leadership on information technology operations and business models
- 10% May perform manager functions
- 20% Collaborates with university partners to improve the user experience for students, faculty, staff, and other stakeholders through inclusive, accessible design and education throughout the enterprise
INSTITUTIONAL STATEMENT ON DIVERSITY:
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion
EDUCATION:
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required Qualifications include:
-Experience managing and developing a group of professional staff (five years preferred)
-Direct experience with digital accessibility or user experience design within an IT ecosystem
-Knowledge of digital accessibility and/or user experience standards, guidelines, or requirements
-Demonstrated ability to provide leadership, exercise influence, and build consensus and partnerships in a large, complex, and collaborative enterprise
-Excellent presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
WORK TYPE:
Full Time: 100%
This position is eligible for any of the following: 100% remote work; partial remote work; or fully on-site. Remote work requires an approved remote work agreement (RWA) agreement. An RWA requires successful candidates to possess their own high-speed internet and phone to perform the work on a university provided computer.
APPOINTMENT TYPE, DURATION:
Ongoing/Renewable
SALARY:
Minimum $125,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications
Employees in this position can expect to receive benefits such as generous vacation, holidays, and paid time off; competitive insurances and savings accounts; retirement benefits.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Please note that successful applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without need of employer sponsorship, on or before the effective date of appointment.
HOW TO APPLY: