Title and Standard Job Description Library

• Job Summary: The job summary is a brief statement explaining the primary functions of the job, including its main purpose and overall goal.
  Provides leadership and guidance in critical areas of technology administration at the university, including budgeting, resource development and allocation, policy formation, technology evaluation, and service development, delivery, and deployment. Provides assistance to the CIO in managing business operations to improve cost effectiveness, service quality, and IT operational effectiveness. Provides leadership, direction, and support at the institution, state, and/or national level with broad-reaching institutional and/or statewide impact. Analyzes technology trends and advancement in areas of specialization and plans for the long-term direction of the IT organization.
• Job Responsibilities: Job responsibilities are the core job duties that people in this job usually perform.
  • Provides strategic leadership and guidance at the executive level in critical areas of technology administration, having institution, state-wide, and/or national impact
  • Serves on behalf of the CIO as the principal IT Officer in the CIO's absence or as requested
  • Oversees cross-institutional initiatives and executive level projects, fostering strategic partnerships in carrying out enterprise-wide computing services for the central IT organization
  • Assists the CIO in leading overall information technology strategic planning to achieve business goals by prioritizing information technology initiatives and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future technology projects
  • Assists the CIO in governance oversight, project and portfolio management, and service delivery management
  • Directs key services within the division with broad-reaching institutional and/or statewide impact
  • Provides leadership for planning, developing, and implementing information technology initiatives
  • Leads the development and implementation of best practices and standards in process, design, architecture, and operations of all aspects of service oriented information technology delivery
  • 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
• Education: Education describes the minimum level of education that people in this job usually have. Education that is a preferred minimum is recommended for this job but not required. Relevant work experience can satisfy preferred minimum education. A hiring manager may include additional education requirements when recruiting for a position.
  Bachelor's Degree Preferred Minimum
• FLSA Status: Federal regulations determine Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) status. Employees who are non-exempt receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week. Employees who are exempt do not receive overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
  Exempt
• Institution Job: A job that has primary responsibilities that impact the majority or the entirety of the institution, or has significantly larger scope than the school/college/division in which it resides, and typically contains “(Inst)” in the job title or mentions “institution” or “enterprise” in a standard job description.
  Yes
• Required Supervisory Duty of at Least 2.0 Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Employees: The supervisor directly oversees the equivalent of at least 2.0 FTE employees or indirectly oversees one or more supervisors. The supervisor has the authority to hire, transfer, suspend, promote, manage conduct and performance, discharge, assign, reward, and discipline employees. The supervisor typically reviews the work of employees and may approve employee timesheets.
  Yes
• Employee Category: Each employee category is unique in type of work performed, job security, benefits package, and/or ability to organize unions. Assignment to an employee category is based upon job title. Refer to the UW–Madison Employment Categories policy for more information.
  Limited
• Scaled Job: Jobs with the same title may have a different scope of work based on the school, college, or division where the work is performed. Scaling recognizes these differences based on the scope, impact, and complexity of the work performed. A scaled job title has multiple salary grades to align with market data. Learn more about job scaling.
  No
• Salary Range (Annual): Jobs in the same salary grade have similar pay in the market. Each salary grade has a salary range that includes a minimum and a maximum. A job is paid between the minimum and maximum of its salary grade. Learn more about UW's salary structure.
  33: $221,646-412,262
• Job Code: A job code identifies jobs in the university’s human resources system.
  IT080: Deputy Chief Information Officer (Inst)

Knowledges and Skills Learning Resources

Each standard job description is linked to a list of knowledges and skills. Knowledges and skills are optional resources to support employee learning and development. Visit the Knowledges and Skills Learning Resources website to learn more.

• Knowledges: Understanding of concepts.
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  • Administration and Management
  • Customer and Personal Service
  • Mathematics
  • Personnel and Human Resources
  • Production and Processing
• Skills: Capabilities and proficiencies developed through training and experience. Learn more about knowledges and skills.
  • Active Listening
  • Coordination
  • Monitoring
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Speaking