Executive Director, Information Technology bei Mohave College

About the Department

*****POSITION TO START EARLY 2026*****

Mohave College is seeking an Executive Director of Information Technology to lead our IT strategy into a bold new era of innovation, security, and transformation. The ideal candidate will bring inclusive leadership skills needed to build, coach, and inspire high­ performing teams along with their IT background.

At Mohave College, collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. You'll work across departments and campuses, driving digital transformation that supports learning, equity, and student success. If you're a strategic thinker who thrives in a diverse environment and believes in the power of people-first technology, we want to hear from you.

What We Will Love About You:

• You bring deep expertise in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, with a forward-thinking approach to applying emerging technologies in higher education.
• You're a relational leader who values people as much as systems—someone who listens well, communicates with empathy, and leads with authenticity.
• You have a proven track record of building and coaching high-performing teams, and you take pride in mentoring others and creating a culture of growth and trust.
• Your leadership is inclusive, collaborative, and strategic—you know how to bring together diverse voices to solve complex problems and move projects forward.
• You're not just a tech expert; you're a transformational change agent who sees technology as a tool to enhance teaching, learning, and the student experience

• You thrive in dynamic environments, balancing long-term vision with day-to-day operational excellence.
• You’re excited to make a lasting impact at a college that’s committed to innovation, equity, and community success.

What you'll love about us: 

• We create the future by cultivating relentless curiosity in our students and each other to unlock new opportunities and break barriers. We take risks, adapt to oncoming challenges and opportunities, and engineer new ideas as we learn together from our mistakes and successes.  
• We engage fearlessly, bringing passion and energy to our work by dreaming big, being bold, having fun, and fostering a caring environment. Celebrating each other and our results with enthusiasm makes our work meaningful and exciting. 
• We build together. Our individual differences and backgrounds strengthen our teams, where we seek input and ensure every voice is heard. We amplify our impact when we empower each other to take ownership and work together toward a common vision. 
• We live authentically, being our best when we share information openly, create clarity, invite stakeholders to participate in decision-making, and communicate with the utmost respect. 
• We care! We care about our students, our communities, and each other, finding ways to actively engage and invest in the success of those we serve.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance/FSA, HSA -see more detailed information here.
• PTO
  • 120 hours per year - Staff
  • 18 hours per year - 9-Month Faculty
  • 35 hours per year - 12-Month Faculty
• Paid Holidays
  • 21 days - Staff
  • 26 days - 9-month Faculty
  • 39 days - 12-Month Faculty
• Sick Leave – 40 hours per year
• ASRS (Arizona State Retirement System)
• Remote/Hybrid work - for approved positions.
• Tuition Voucher (to use towards Mohave College courses)
• Summer hours - 4-day work week

Position Duties

1. Provides leadership in security, strategic, and business alignment, tactical planning, budgeting, executive reporting, and supporting processes that the IT department has adopted and streamlined. Communicates current and projected needs, requirements, and options in the college budgeting process, and recommends acquisitions and updates.
2. Works collaboratively with other departments to efficiently implement technical installations and upgrades. Provides leadership by focusing on planning and execution to help college management and the organization succeed and improve productivity, particularly by providing stakeholders with effective information, support systems, resources, and business solutions.
3. Creates a work environment to foster positive employee relations, efficient and effective deployment of human resources, and utilizes professionally sound personnel management techniques. Supervises and reviews the performance of professional, technical staff, and subordinate staff.
4. Supervision includes training, delegation of work assignments, employee evaluation and discipline, and employee hiring/termination, promotion, and pay rate change recommendations.
5. Develop and implement long-range planning activities for the security and technology infrastructure of the college, including planning and implementation of all academic and administrative computing systems, data and telecommunications networks, and telephone messaging systems. Activities and decisions are highly complex and require significant independent action and judgment that are subject to college-wide policies and procedures.
6. Directs IT support services including media services, network operations and services, student computing, and college telephone systems. Creates and maintains a customer service culture, program, orientation, and focus for assigned areas. Monitors departmental activities and customer satisfaction with service delivery; identifies and implements appropriate improvement measures.
7. Develops information security guidelines and strategies based on industry frameworks and best practices (e.g., NIST-CSF, FERPA, HIPAA, SOC2, PCI).
8. Maintains, reviews, and upgrades as needed with the disaster recovery plan for the college's information recovery services, as well as the college’s maintenance windows.
9. Establishes standards for technology hardware, software, and communications protocols.
10. Evaluate and recommend vendor contracts for hardware, software, and technology-related services as needed while aligning to third-party risk management (TPRM) efforts.
11. Provides project management for technology deployment or implementations while being cognizant of internal and external resource utilization.
12. Serves as an advocate for the college's interests. Represents the college by speaking to and making presentations to external groups who have the capacity to influence/affect the college's successes

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in information technology or a related discipline.
• 7 years of experience in information technologies
• Three (3) years of progressively responsible supervisory experience
• Attainment of Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP for Routing & Switching, Network Security, and/or Design at the entry, associate, or professional level required. If not certified at the professional level expectation is that the professional level certification(s) will be attained within 12 months of hire.
• Attainment of VMware certification at the data center level (vSphere 5.x) and at the desktop virtualization level (vSphere 5.x). If not certified at these professional levels, the expectation is that the professional level certification(s) will be attained within 12 months of hire.

• Any combination of education and experience that results in the possession of skills, knowledge, and behaviors as outlined in the position's core competencies below.

• Master's degree from an accredited institution in information technology or a related discipline
• Five (5) years of progressively responsible supervisory experience in a community college setting

• Adaptability (Advanced Level): Understands the requirements of different situations and effectively adapts his/her behavior even when under stress and pressure. Adjusts own view and objectives in order to achieve a shared goal. Open to various standards, values, and rules without losing a sense of identity.
• Analytical Thinking (Advanced Level): Successful candidate displays an ability to extract key information from data from different sources and analyze, sort, and synthesize data with careful attention to detail. Compares data and integrates broad themes and lines of reasoning to create new insights or levels of understanding for the issue at hand. Identifies actions to prevent the problem from occurring partially or totally. Identifies a number of solutions to complex problems, integrates findings from several different disciplines, identifies and evaluates the various options developed, and selects the most effective solution.
• Budget Management (Advanced Level): Effectively safeguard fiscal resources and consistently adhere to all internal control procedures designed to prevent and detect theft or misuse of funds. Remain alert to potential breaches of financial security/control procedures and immediately report incidents and problems. Actively seek ways to improve internal controls. Keep up-to-date on changes to fiscal procedures, principles, standards, rates, etc. Ensure all financial data is properly calculated and reported. Responsibly allocate and account for the use of fiscal resources, evaluating alternatives and weighing their benefits. Research or recognize the market value of goods and services to ensure efficient and reasonable expenditure of resources.
• Coaching & Developing Others (Advanced Level): Enables others to take appropriate risks. Organizes and structures work for others in a manner that encourages ownership and accountability. Balances the organization’s tasks, goals, and objectives with subordinates’ personal and professional needs. Diagnoses performance issues and determines appropriate development approaches to suit the individual’s learning style. Uses effective questioning techniques to allow subordinates to think through problems and develop solutions.
• Decision Making and Judgment (Advanced Level): Models the use of sound judgment and integrity to make clear, transparent decisions regarding complex and or sensitive issues or materials. Makes independent, critical decisions based on relevant information, considering the total organization. Strikes a balance between being participative, i.e., involving team members in decisions, and being directive, depending on the needs of the team and the situation. Consistently and effectively seeks input from unit and campus partners; is nimble and decisive.
• Effective Communication (Advanced Level): Tailors information to the audience and individual needs - flexes style appropriately. Models interpersonal communication that invites participation and future dialogue. Actively seeks perspectives from others to ensure inclusiveness and understanding. Refrains from immediate judgment and criticism of others' ideas and delivers criticism in a way that demonstrates sensitivity to the feelings of others, and waits for others to finish their intended message before responding.
• Influence (Advanced Level): Uses all available information appropriately to guide decisions and negotiations to meet objectives, while acting with integrity. Effectively explores alternatives and positions to reach outcomes that gain the support and acceptance of all parties. Assertively interacts in a manner that is controlled, planned, and well-thought-out to lead others to the desired outcome. Maintains an awareness of goals and objectives and navigates solutions towards desired ends, while maintaining relationships and supporting consensus.
• Innovative & Creative Thinking (Advanced Level): Generates high-quality ideas and solutions alone or collaboratively. Searches for new and more effective methods, making connections between previously unrelated ideas. Injects originality into daily work through research, personal knowledge, and networking relationships. Encourages new ideas and motivates others to be proactive and resourceful.
• Leadership (Advanced Level): Understands formal and informal power and influence structure within the organization and successfully achieves positive, desired outcomes. Seeks consensus among assorted viewpoints as a means of building group commitment. Incorporates a long-term perspective and broader organizational implications in planning, decision-making, and problem-solving. Inspires and energizes others to commit to the vision. Employs a leadership style based on assessing the needs of individuals and adjusting to meet their needs. Builds a wide sphere of influence to enhance individual and organizational effectiveness.
• Organizational Acumen (Advanced Level): Understands the relationship between internal climate and external environment. Knows the reasoning behind key policies, practices, and procedures, and seeks exceptions when needed to achieve goals. Uses knowledge and understanding of the organizational and political climate to make decisions and take actions that satisfy varied interests and contribute effectively to organizational goals.
• Relationship Building (Advanced Level): Facilitates dialogue to gain agreement using sound rationale to explain the value of actions. Uses diplomacy to build partners. Promotes and models collegiality. Consistently promotes and maintains a harmonious and promotes and maintains a harmonious and productive work environment. Is respected and trusted, and often viewed as a role model.
• Teamwork (Advanced Level): Maintains or enhances the self-esteem of others in all communications with team members. Actively works to remove barriers to team effectiveness. Is flexible and can work with a wide variety of different people on different tasks. Fosters cooperation and collaboration in others through trust-building and relationships. Encourages other team members to participate and facilitates when appropriate. Facilitates team activities that promote effective peer and work relationships. Fosters team communication, dialogue, and identifies opportunities to gain consensus for team options, decisions, and outcomes. Builds effective teams across organizations and levels, inside and outside own organization.
• Technical Proficiency (Advanced Level): Has acquired and been awarded formal recognition for meeting the requirements of the profession. Account for the technical difficulty and complexity of their own work and that of staff, where appropriate, at key milestones. Has acquired a broad, working knowledge of technical practices, generally recognized principles, approaches, methodological frameworks, and best practice theories. Uses extensive first-hand application and implementation experiences that have been gained in a variety of contexts and requirements for technical proficiency. Is recognized by peers, fellow professionals, and own work group for technical depth of knowledge.
• Vision (Advanced Level): Combines various social trends and developments into an integrated vision of the future. Sees chances and opportunities for the organization before others do and acts accordingly. Recognizes national and international trends early on and oversees their consequences for the organization. Integrates developments in different disciplines into a new concept. Able to imagine possibilities that other people think are impossible. Able to think ahead on the basis of limited information.

Other Qualifications

Application Instructions

It is the responsibility of each applicant to have all the following documents on file in the Employee Services office by the deadline date in order to continue in the application process for this position. Application materials will not be returned.

1. A complete online employment application form. Please do not state 'see resume' on any part of the application. Blank spaces may be a cause for rejection of the application.
2. Cover letter addressing the criteria listed in the job announcement and your qualifications for this position.
3. Resume or curriculum vitae. Optional, but encouraged.
4. Transcripts of all college work. (Unofficial transcripts or photocopies will be accepted to establish the application file. Official transcripts will be required if the candidate is offered the position.)

Important Notes:

• If any of the above-listed materials are missing or incomplete, the application will not be considered.
• Items 2-4 may either be attached electronically to the application or mailed to the address below (position number must be included on all documents):

Mohave Community College
Employee Services
1971 Jagerson Avenue
Kingman, AZ 86409