Assistant Vice President of Information Technology

The Assistant Vice President of Information Technology (AVP, IT) is Mitchell Hamline School of Law’s senior technology leader, responsible for the strategy, operations, security and effectiveness of the School’s information technology environment.

The AVP provides strategic direction and operational leadership across enterprise applications, infrastructure, academic technology, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and technology services. The position leads IT professionals while maintaining the technical knowledge and experience necessary to evaluate solutions, guide complex decisions, address operational challenges, and ensure effective delivery of technology services.

Working across academic and administrative areas, the AVP aligns technology priorities, resources, and investments with institutional needs. The position advances technology governance, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies while ensuring reliable, secure, and responsive services for the Mitchell Hamline community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Technology Strategy and Leadership

• Develop and execute a multi-year technology strategy aligned with the Law School’s academic mission, strategic priorities, and administrative needs.
• Advise senior leadership on technology strategy, AI and emerging technology, digital transformation, cybersecurity, risk, and significant technology investments.
• Translate institutional priorities into technology roadmaps, initiatives, and resource priorities.
• Build partnerships across academic and administrative areas to identify opportunities for technology-enabled improvement and innovation.
  
  

Technology Governance and Digital Transformation

• Develop and propose institution-wide governance for technology, systems, data, and AI, including decision rights, ownership, standards, and accountability.
• Lead responsible evaluation and adoption of AI, automation, integration, and other emerging technologies.
• Partner with institutional leaders to modernize processes and improve teaching, learning, service delivery, and institutional effectiveness.
• Ensure significant technology decisions consider value, security, privacy, accessibility, integration, cost, sustainability, and risk.
  
  

Cybersecurity and Institutional Resilience

• Provide executive leadership for cybersecurity, technology risk, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Establish appropriate standards for access, security, change management, documentation, backup, and continuity across institution-critical systems.
• Ensure significant technology risks are identified, addressed, and communicated to institutional leadership.
• Partner with appropriate institutional and external resources on privacy, compliance, security, and incident response.
  
  

IT Organizational Leadership and Service Delivery

• Lead the Information Technology function through technology professionals responsible for enterprise applications, infrastructure and support, academic technology, cybersecurity, and related services.
• Establish priorities, service expectations, accountability, staffing, and organizational capacity appropriate to the Law School’s needs. Recruit, develop, evaluate, and retain a strong technology team while promoting cross-training, succession planning, and reduction of single points of failure.
• Ensure reliable, secure, accessible, and responsive technology services for students, faculty, and staff.
• Ensures that IT infrastructure meets the needs of faculty, staff, and students
  
  

Financial, Portfolio and Vendor Leadership

• Develop and manage the IT budget and multi-year technology investment plan.
• Prioritize major technology initiatives and oversee significant implementations and institutional technology investments.
• Manage technology related vendors, consultants, contracts, licensing, and external technology partners.
• Identify opportunities to improve value, consolidate technology, and align spending with institutional priorities.
  
  

An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.