Director of Academic Technology & User Services (ATUS)

Western Washington University with over 15000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school is nationally recognized for its educational programs students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham Washington a coastal community of 90000 overlooking Bellingham Bay the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes Bremerton Everett Port Angeles and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes such as being named one of the top public masters-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report.

Western Washington University is committed to achieving excellence through advancing inclusive success increasing our Washington impact and focusing on transformational education grounded in the liberal arts and sciences and based on innovative scholarship research and creative activity. Westerns greatest strength is the outstanding students faculty staff and alumni/ae who make up its community. Western supports an inclusive governance structure for all and provides a learning and working environment in which everyone can pursuit of this excellence individual employees are expected to establish and maintain productive and effective inclusive working relationships amongst diverse populations including staff faculty administration student and external constituents. Further individual employees are expected to have the ability to operationalize sustainability concepts (economic societal environmental) into all aspects of performing their job duties.

Reporting to the Chief Information Officer the Director sets the vision for technology adoption ensuring alignment with the universitys mission. As part of ITS senior leadership the Director continually evaluates services and operations leading improvements to meet evolving institutional needs.

The position manages a $4M budget balancing sustainability with innovation and leverages departmental resources to maximize capacity. ATUS is comprised of 35 staff and about 100 student employees. The Director ensures the ongoing growth and development of ATUS employees cultivating an ethic of care and building a culture that reflects the mission and values of ITS and WWU.

For more information view the position profile: Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• Five years of progressive management experience in supporting customer-focused technology services and direct reports within a large complex organization
• Demonstrated ability to advance the application of technology to enhance ITS operations using a solutions-based mindset
• Proven organizational fiscal management staff development and supervisory skills
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with technology users in a diverse environment
• Superior oral and written communication skills

• Masters Degree and seven years or more leading a technology support organization in higher education
• Demonstrated experience managing IT Service Management tools specifically Atlassians Jira
• Experience teaching instructional technology within higher education in the classroom and online
• Enterprise project or portfolio management experience
• Demonstrated ability to articulate an informed nuanced vision for the application of innovative technologies like generative and agentic AI in an education setting

Benefits Overview for Administrative Professional Position.

Application materials should address your experience related to the position responsibilities and the required and preferred qualifications.

Applicants should submit:

1. A cover letter describing your interest in the role and your approach to leadership.

2. A resume.

3. A 12 page statement responding to the following prompt:

In this role you will facilitate conversations with students faculty staff and executive leadership about the use of generative and agentic AI at Western Washington University. Please describe your perspective on the benefits and risks of AI in higher education and how you would engage constructively with stakeholders who hold differing viewpoints.

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