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Essential Functions:

• Operational responsibility for fiber/copper management and logical and physical design of the campus network including routers, switches, firewalls, VLANs, IP space, Internet connectivity, and wireless networks.
• Review and analyze networking and physical operations, including capacity planning, fault tolerance, performance, new and advanced technology, monitoring, environmental controls, and service levels; develop recommendations to improve performance, capacity, and security.
• Develop and implement policies, procedures, documentation, technical KPIs, and SLAs for network and telecommunications services portfolio.
• Develop a budget for lifecycle management and continuous network and infrastructure upgrades.
• Ensure the provision of comprehensive, integrated, reliable, high-quality services for GGC in areas such as backbone and local area networking, network facilities and infrastructure, Internet access, high-performance networking, network security, remote access to campus IT services, and telecommunications.
• Ensure compliance with USG IT handbook and other compliance standards that are in scope for this position.
• Provide effective project leadership and ensure that team is providing responsive service and meeting established service level agreements for service incidents.
• Ensure preparation for business continuity and disaster recovery with respect to campus network and telecommunications and establish on-call rotation schedule to provide 24/7 support for networks and telecommunications.
• Manage relationships with vendors for quotes, maintenance renewals, etc.

Required Education:

• Bachelors degree in a related field
• Required Work Experience
• 3 years experience in leadership and management roles including experience with supervision and performance management.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a technical project leader.
• Demonstrated progressively responsible experience in networking and telecommunications.

Preferred:

• Masters degree in a related field and 7 years of experience in leadership and management roles
• Relevant certifications
• Experience working in public higher education or the public sector
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to translate technical terminology to clients.
• Strong leadership skills with a high commitment to customer service. Must have a cooperative approach to leadership and management.
• Ability to forge effective collaborations with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to facilitate productive meetings and work successfully in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong managerial, organizational, analytic, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of network and telecommunication resources, services, and applications appropriate for a campus environment.
• Ability to envision and implement exemplary applications of information technology to support network and telecommunication operations.
• Knowledge of the acquisition, installation, maintenance, and management of networking, telecommunications, and computing equipment.
• Outstanding reporting capabilities to enable powerful communication of complex network status and projects.
• Ability to foster a work environment based on trust, respect, and competence.
• Demonstrated commitment to use office standards for project management and service deliver.

Experience required: 5-8 Years