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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:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

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

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 13
• Minimum – $86,300.00
• MidPoint – $107,900.00
• Maximum – $129,500.00