[AISWorld] CIO & Clinical Assist Professor, University Michigan School of Information

[Lionel Robert]

Chief Information Officer & Clinical Assist Professor, University Michigan
School of Information



How to Apply

A cover letter is required for consideration for this position and should
be attached as the first page of your resume. The cover letter should
address your specific interest in the position and outline skills and
experience that directly relate to this position.


Job Summary

The School of Information (UMSI) at the University of Michigan is seeking
outstanding applicants for a Clinical Assistant Professor who will also
provide leadership for the School's Information Technology function. UMSI
is refocusing its information technology service organization to support
the faculty, students and staff responsible for achieving the School's
mission of enabling people using information - with technology - to build a
better world.


UMSI has recently completed a comprehensive information technology
strategic plan that is designed to take advantage of the capabilities of
the School?s community of scholars and the rapidly evolving information
technology services environment in which the School operates. The School is
critically dependent on reliable production IT services for its educational
and research missions. It also must support leading edge IT capabilities to
enable innovation in research and learning environments.


Because this set of activities is so closely coupled to the School?s
academic mission, the School has decided to seek the appointment of a
clinical faculty member to this leadership role. The appointment will be
composed of a 50% 9 month role of Clinical Assistant Professor and a 50% 12
month role of Chief Information Officer (CIO). We expect the successful
applicant to be a full participant in the School's academic community while
also providing leadership for the School's IT service function. To enable
the CIO to focus on strategy and academically critical IT functions, UMSI's
Administrative Director will work with her or him to support the IT group's
personnel and production management activities. We also expect the CIO to
undertake teaching, service and research appropriate to his or her half
time role as a clinical faculty member.


We seek a creative, experienced, energetic leader to be the first CIO at
UMSI. We seek an individual to work with the UMSI community to define the
vision for UMSI IT environment, develop strategies to implement that
vision, manage the resulting program to meet School requirements, and
collaborate with other university and college IT support units to improve
effectiveness and achieve scale economies.


As a Chief Information Officer at UMSI, we seek a candidate that is able to
build and maintain strategic partnerships with the wide variety of
stakeholders necessary to establish innovative information technology
services. These partnerships include, but are not limited to, external
vendors and cloud computing services, other departmental IT organizations,
central IT organizations, peer institutions, and our own community of
faculty, staff and students.


Candidates will be expected to provide visionary and strategic leadership
in how the broad information needs of the School, beyond traditional IT
functions, can be addressed in efficient and innovative ways. These
information needs include effective navigation of a changing scholarly
publishing landscape, issues balancing personal privacy with advanced
analytic capabilities, innovations in licensing and sharing (such as the
application of Creative Commons licenses to academic works and activities)
and changes in digital learning.

We expect the Chief Information Officer at UMSI to take a lead role in
integrating new technology capabilities into the School's operations to
enhance the strategic use of IT to fulfill the School's goals. The CIO will
be responsible for researching disruptive technologies, and identify those
that can support breakthrough innovations for the School's learning and
research activities.


As Clinical Assistant Professor, we seek a candidate able to translate her
or his competence and experience in IT leadership to courses relevant to
the School's degree programs. In particular, we seek a candidate who will
reinforce the UMSI's capabilities in health informatics, personal
information technology and IT management.

Candidates will be expected to make substantive creative contributions in
teaching and professional service and their work will be expected to be
consistent with the stated mission of the School. Less emphasis will be
placed on scholarly publication and a formal research record, but
candidates will be expected to achieve outstanding work at the level of
professional engagement and practice. As with all faculty, criteria for
appointment will include evaluation of the impact of the faculty member's
work in the community of their peers as well as those they serve in their
practice, but for clinical faculty, impact will be measured in ways beyond
scholarly publication.


Candidates will be expected to demonstrate evidence of excellent teaching
and mentoring ability, and candidates will be expected to play an active
role in instructional development, initiation of new courses, innovation in
instruction delivery and content, and contribution to overall curriculum
design and development. The School's strong commitment to service carries
with it the expectation of service to the university and external
communities, and this service will be expected to have impact and influence
on the communities served.


Responsibilities*

Strategic Leadership

-Establish and direct the strategic goals, policies and procedures around
the use of information technology to support the mission of the School.

- Effectively communicate the strategic benefits of advanced information
and communications technologies by developing information materials and
presenting briefings and demonstrations to the community.

-Assess and develop strategies to capitalize on external opportunities and
threats around technology and information policy.



IT Management

-In partnership with UMSI's Administrative Director, establish the
necessary management practices to ensure alignment between the School's IT
strategy and day-to-day operations.

-Participate in budgeting and planning.

-Participate in procurement and partnership negotiations.



IT Innovation

- Assess and integrate new and emerging technologies into UMSI.

- Expand the use of contextual inquiry approaches to anticipate the
requirements of faculty and researchers by understanding teaching, learning
and research processes and matching them to the next waves of technology.

- Integrate prototyping and evaluation efforts into learning and research
processes.

- Implement assessment activities in order to measure project and overall
unit results both qualitatively and quantitatively.

- Increase the ability of the School to deploy advanced technology.



Partnership Development

- Work with other University information technology production units to
leverage their platforms for testbed activities and to effect knowledge and
technology transfer.

- Work with campus-wide initiatives in order to enhance the School's
investments in advanced technologies.

- Establish and sustain partnerships with corporations, other universities,
and government agencies working on related efforts.

- Participate in the School's teaching mission by helping other faculty use
information technology in their courses. Create and/or teach courses that
motivate students to apply information technology to realize their
entrepreneurial, professional and research goals.

- Work with faculty to enhance and support the information technology
required to support their teaching and research.

- Maintain and develop relationships with partner organizations in Michigan
and nationally.



Required Qualifications*

Masters degree in business administration, computer science, or information
science or an equivalent combination of education and professional
experience.



Seven or more years of progressively responsible experience leading
information technology innovation and applied research and development
efforts, including five or more years of supervisory experience.



Experience in developing and delivering courses and learning environments.



Extensive experience with a wide range of IT-enabled teaching, learning and
research.



Experience with technology transfer processes for bringing research or
teaching innovations to commercial markets.



Demonstrated ability to effectively apply the successes and approaches used
by one user community to other disciplines.



Outstanding attention to detail and follow-up, including a proven ability
to handle multiple research projects simultaneously in a fast-paced
environment.



Experience with production IT environments and technology and knowledge
transfer from research to production.



Outstanding oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills dealing
with both non-academic and academic audiences, including a diverse range of
students, faculty, staff and administrators.



Experience working in higher education.



Desired Qualifications*

Experience working in an information school.



Demonstrated excellence teaching in a professional degree environment.



Knowledge of UM schools and colleges, policies, procedures and regulations.



Experience working with IT standards development.



Knowledge of federal, particularly NSF and NIH, initiatives related to the
IT infrastructure for teaching, learning and research.



Evidence of obtaining and sustaining external funding.



Experience in managing industry/academic partnerships.



U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer.



Apply here:



http://umjobs.org/job_detail/95197/clinical_assistant_professor_and_chief_information_officer_school_of_information



-- 
Lionel P. Robert Jr.
Assistant Professor of Information
School of Information
University of Michigan
4417 North Quad
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285
Phone: 734-764-5296
Fax: 734-615-3587
Email: lprobert at umich.edu
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