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Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT)

Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) Managers direct and lead teams in the planning, consulting, and implementation of technologies for faculty and student engagement opportunities.

• Manage TLT team(s), including hiring, development, and performance management
• Develop and implement protocols to assess feasibility of technical requests and new technologies
• Actively engage with IT staff to determine how new technologies can integrate within existing infrastructure
• Collaborate in strategic planning and develop plans for achieving tactical / strategic goals
• Provide oversight of TLT budget and initiatives, to include forecasting requirements in the areas of staffing, classroom and lab lifecycle replacement, courseware, learning spaces, etc.
• Recommend equipment and software expenditures, including new purchases as well as lifecycle replacements
• Ensure work is compliant with university policies and legal requirements
• Represent University and participate, as appropriate, in national affiliations
• Ensure team(s) maintain familiarity with instructional uses of technology through local and national reports as well as less formal sources (blogs, conference calls, etc.)

Level:

– Principal Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates awareness of broad issues and management trends. Applies exemplary management principles. Evaluates impact of policy and adjusts accordingly. Ensures appropriate skills are developed and maintained within team/unit. Realigns staff responsibilities to meet desired changes. Provides administrative and policy direction. Develops and articulates broad goals. Fosters collaboration between units. Engages in written and verbal communications that reach a university-wide and/or broad external audience. Develops and implements solutions to highly complex and often controversial problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees teams of other supervisors/managers
– Leads a business unit

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Plans, forecasts, develops, and/or approves budgets
– Typically has final signature authority for business unit

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that may have a significant impact on multiple units and/or the University
– Regularly develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve the most difficult problems
– Creates an environment that encourages imaginative solutions to problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined and may be frequently changing
– Sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Oversees completed work of others and is accountable for unit results
– Delegates advanced tasks to others and provides guidance to team members

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– May represent the University externally
– Collaborates closely with team members and other leaders across the University
– Communicates a compelling vision that inspires and motivates others

• Comp Grade – 14
• Minimum – $97,100.00
• MidPoint – $121,400.00
• Maximum – $145,700.00