Montana Career Opportunity – Assistant Director of Technology – Wildfire Defense

 The Assistant Director is a member of the Technology team who supports the Director, as well as other department managers. This position provides co-management, support, administrative and technical leadership over critical systems and acts as an additional point of contact for vendors and stakeholders. This position is responsible for a portion of day to day management within Technology, including but not limited to project/product management, stability, security, with support for all IT services and systems within the organization. The position works closely and in conjunction with the Director of Technology on strategic initiatives, budget planning, budget implementation, policies, operations, and staff supervision.

Supervisor Responsibilities: 

Co-management of Technology staff, including coordination of training for employees on updated IT policies, final review of time and expense and contributing to performance reviews. Serving as an escalation point and coverage when Director and CTO are unavailable.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities: 

Information Technology Systems / 85-100%

• Coordinates with the entire Tech team and in conjunction with the Director, to formulate strategic plans that align with the organizations mission, operation and goals
•  Analyze and ensure daily, weekly, monthly tech deliverables and standards are being meet
• Identify technical hazards and roadblocks, initiate solution pathways
• Self-manage workload while maintaining communication with team members 

Administrative Support / 0-15%

• Builds and maintains financial projections, budgets, and purchasing review
• Review of all technical resources, including health, scale and lifespan
• Builds project/product delivery projections and process updates

Special Projects and Critical Implementation / 0-15

• Generate client-facing or internal reporting that requires analysis of current critical data
•  Development of department policies, procedures and specifications
• Oversees all business needs/requests to ensure that the technical solution meets company standards.

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for their job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Skills:

• Experience in managing and supervising employees or teams
• Precise/clear writing/word processing abilities
• Proven software competency, i.e. MS Office Suite
• Able to utilize several programs simultaneously to perform a task, navigating easily between multiple windows and screens. 

Competencies: 

• High level of professionalism
• Accountability and Dependability
• Accuracy and Attention to Detail
• Self-motivated
• Strong communication- both written and oral 

 Required Qualifications, Education, Certification

• Completion of an undergraduate program or equivalent experience (B.A. or B.S.)

 Preferred Qualifications, Education, Certification

• Prior professional experience in Technology
• Experience managing Microsoft Active Directory and SCCM
• Experience with project/product management
• Experience managing projects, including major renovations that involved various IT solutions
• SCRUM, or other related Agile experience

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Office:  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.