Chief Information Officer

The University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications and nominations for the role of Chief Information Officer and Vice Provost for IT.

This is the highest IT leadership role for the university, leading a complex and dynamic, computing- and data-intensive organization. The CIO establishes and executes enterprise-wide IT strategy and ensures its integration with the university's academic, service and business strategy. This is an outstanding opportunity to guide a strong information technology team through a time of transformation.

The CIO will lead the Division of Information Technology (DoIT), UW-Madison’s central IT organization. DoIT has an $130 million operating budget with more than 600 full-time staff and 200 student staff. DoIT provides core IT infrastructure services to the university, develops and implements services for the university and in some cases, for the Universities of Wisconsin, plays a major role in managing the state-wide higher education network and regional networks. As measured by staffing, about 40% of university IT is within the DoIT organization and will report to the CIO; thus approximately 60% of UW-Madison's IT support is located in distributed IT. Providing close collaboration among and between all IT groups is an important part of the VP-CIO's position.

The VP-CIO serves as a member of the senior administrative councils of the university and also serves a key leadership role in support of IT for the entire Universities of Wisconsin. The Division of Information Technology provides technology services for the system including network, ERP, infrastructure and platform services. Additionally, as a member of the Universities of Wisconsin IT leadership, the VP-CIO participates in planning and projects across the system. The VP-CIO is UW-Madison's delegate to the Enterprise Decisions Council which oversees the shared portfolio of IT services and funding.

This position reports to the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, with a dotted-line to the Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration. They are responsible for working with the UW-Madison community to develop and implement strategic IT plans and roadmaps and for managing key university IT resources and services.

A full position description is forthcoming. 

All inquiries, applications, and nominations for this opportunity should be directed below.

Dan Rodas is leading this search with Raul Bernal and Nicole Sancilio.