Associate Vice President, Information Technology Services

About the role

This position has the opportunity to be located at any one of our three campuses: Westminster, Longmont, and Fort Collins, Colorado. Front Range Community College (FRCC) is the state’s largest community college, enrolling close to 28,000 students annually from a diverse service area. FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs and provides concurrent enrollment classes for high school students, earning college credit without paying tuition. The college was recently ranked as one of the "Top Online Colleges" in the country by Newsweek.

Responsibilities

• Partner with college and system leaders to shape and advance IT strategy aligned with institutional and system priorities.
• Guide long-range technology planning, including the College’s IT Strategic Master Plan, ensuring alignment with student success, equity, and workforce needs.
• Evaluate solutions, vendors, and partnerships to strengthen outcomes, steward resources, and reduce risk.
• Contribute to systemwide collaboration that advances a connected, modern digital ecosystem.
• Lead a multi-functional IT team including cybersecurity, infrastructure, client services, and project delivery.
• Guide day-to-day operations through clear prioritization, delegation, and proactive issue resolution.
• Affirmatively assess organizational structure, workforce capacity, and workload distribution to align resources with evolving needs.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment grounded in accountability, learning, and continuous improvement.
• Support professional growth through coaching, development, and succession planning.
• Partner with Human Resources and college leaders to strengthen workforce readiness through technology-enabled training and development.
• Promote effective adoption and use of technology that enhances employee success and student outcomes.
• Guide the delivery of reliable, accessible, and equitable IT services across campuses.
• Strengthen processes that support efficiency, transparency, and a strong user experience.
• Use data and performance insights to identify gaps and improve service quality.
• Maintain governance for technology solutions, ensuring alignment with accessibility, security, and institutional priorities.
• Develop, maintain, and advance the College’s IT Strategic Master Plan, IT Emergency Response Plan, and Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plans.
• Ensure project prioritization and readiness align with systemwide strategies and operational requirements.
• Support continuity, resilience, and long-term sustainability of IT systems and services.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Business Administration or a related field.
• Required: Five to seven years of increasingly responsible experience in a mid to senior level IT positions.
• Required: Extensive knowledge of networking, data communications, telecommunications, audio and visual components, servers, databases, computing hardware and software systems.

Skills

• Leadership: Manages a broad team of professionals who complete and support a variety of technology operations while serving a diverse multi-campus institution.
• Communication (Oral & Written): Utilizes strong oral and written communications skills to share critical information and concepts with a wide variety of audiences.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Champions equity and inclusion within the College and College departments through policies and practices that support all employees, students and visitors.
• Collaboration: Works effectively with stakeholder groups to understand their needs and utilize judgement on how to build relationships.
• Project Management: Understands who needs to be involved in complex projects and how to foster engagement during project inception, planning, development, implementation and close out. Maintains a project priority list that would include target dates, resource allocation, & assigned resources in alignment with the FRCC and CCCS strategic plans.
• Change Catalyst: Ability to encourage others to seek opportunities for different and innovative approaches when addressing problems or opportunities.
• Critical Thinking: Identifies future innovation opportunities that relate to higher education and the delivery of instruction. Determines the most appropriate strategy to leverage technology using available resources. Develops long-term strategies and goals for the Department.
• Organizational Skills: Plans, develops and maintains department structures, projects and processes that support the technology at both the College and CCCS level. Manages multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.

Benefits

The college offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off. For more details, please refer to the provided document.

Pay

$118,766-130,643 annually

Schedule

Consistent on-campus presence and regular travel across all campuses is required.