Associate Vice President, Information Technology Services

Associate Vice President, Information Technology

This position has the opportunity to be located at any one of our three campuses. We have campuses in Westminster, Longmont, and Fort Collins, Colorado.

With three campuses along Colorado's Front Range, FRCC is the state's largest community college. We enroll close to 28,000 students annually from our diverse service area, which offers a variety of cultural and recreational activities.

Each year approximately 5,000 FRCC students transfer to four-year universities and FRCC offers more than 36 career training programs that prepare students for immediate employment and rewarding careers. Last year, more than 5,000 high school students took concurrent enrollment classes with us, earning college credit without having to pay college tuition. And we were recently ranked as one of the "Top Online Colleges" in the country by Newsweek.

One of FRCC's main goals is to offer educational excellence for everyone. The college's strong commitment to student success means we start by creating an inclusive and equitable environment—one where both students and employees feel they belong and are supported. FRCC's focus on diversity, equity and inclusion is woven into the fabric of our college conversations and decision-making processes. We are actively seeking to hire a workforce that reflects the diversity of our student body.

The college is also an emerging Hispanic Serving Institution. For us, becoming an HSI is an intentional commitment to being a college where our Latinx (and other historically marginalized) students thrive.

FRCC employees and leaders work hard to create a culture of collaboration, innovation and pride. We're looking to hire people who share these values—along with our commitment to student success, equity and excellence.

Description of Job

You are a strategic, collaborative technology leader who connects enterprise direction with meaningful, campus-level impact. As the College's senior IT leader, you translate systemwide priorities into technology solutions that strengthen student success, workforce readiness, and operational effectiveness.

You partner directly with system-level leadership as part of a shared leadership network, contributing to strategy while guiding how initiatives are implemented and translated to ensure systemwide digital transformation initiatives are successfully adopted, integrated, and optimized at the college level.

The AVP leads campus technology services while acting as a key collaborator, advisor, and execution partner in advancing:

• Enterprise digital transformation and innovation
• Data-informed decision making
• Technology-enabled student success strategies
• Cybersecurity and risk management
• Workforce-aligned technology ecosystems

You ensure FRCC both contributes to and benefits from a unified, interoperable, and modern Colorado Community College System (CCCS) digital ecosystem and serves as the college-level executor and integrator of a systemwide digital transformation strategy.

This is an essential, highly visible leadership role requiring consistent on-campus presence and regular travel across all campuses to effectively coordinate departmental needs, collaborate with stakeholders, and foster a supportive culture. You may be required to work onsite or remain on campus during delayed starts, early releases, or campus closures.

Please note: You need to be a Colorado resident on your first day of employment. Also, Front Range Community College is an E-Verify employer.

SALARY: $118,766-130,643 annually

The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum starting salary for the position. When determining the starting salary for a new employee, FRCC takes into consideration a combination of the selected candidate's education, training and experience as it relates to the requirements of the position, as well as the position's scope and complexity, internal pay equity and external market value.

BENEFITS: For information about benefits, please view APT & Faculty Benefits.

SELECTION PROCESS: Position will remain open until filled with a priority deadline of June 16, 2026. This posting may be used to fill multiple or similar positions.

The selection process for the Associate Vice President of Information Technology will be conducted through a competitive, merit-based evaluation of all qualified applicants. Preliminary screening will be based on the completed application package submitted by the candidate. In your application, please include a resume and cover letter that specifically address how your background and experience align with the requirements, qualifications, and responsibilities of the position.

Primary Duties

Strategic Leadership

• 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.
• Align technology investments, initiatives, and project priorities with academic, operational, and systemwide goals.
• Evaluate solutions, vendors, and partnerships to strengthen outcomes, steward resources, and reduce risk.
• Contribute to systemwide collaboration that advances a connected, modern digital ecosystem.

Team Leadership & Operations

• 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.
• 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.

Workforce Enablement

• 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.

Operations & Continuous Improvement

• 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.

Planning, Governance & Continuity

• 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.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

Required Competencies

• 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.

Qualifications

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

Welcoming. Respectful. Inclusive. Together, we are FRCC.