International IT Solutions Director

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To apply, email your résumé to:
resume@children.org

Or mail to:
Children International,
Attn: Human Resources
2000 East Red Bridge Road
Kansas City, MO 64131

Title: International IT Solutions Director (Bilingual)
Reports to: Vice President of IT
About Children International

Children International is a nonprofit humanitarian organization working to eradicate poverty around the world. At CI, we believe that every child matters and that it is simply unacceptable that over a billion children live in poverty. The CI approach is to invest in our kids and youth by providing a safe place, a caring team and a path out of poverty through programs in health, education, empowerment and employment. We provide this support for 250,000 children in 13 agencies working in 10 countries around the world.

The work Children International does on behalf of children in poverty is funded primarily through a one-to-one sponsorship model. We are transforming our funding model to dramatically increase the support we provide our kids. Additionally, we are taking our programs from good to great by elevating our people systems and practices worldwide. That’s where you come in.

Position summary

The International Information Technology (IT) Solutions Director provides leadership, analysis, and design to enable and support CI agency and community center capabilities for stable operations as well as capabilities for innovation. Leads the effort to define and manage solutions needed to achieve targeted business outcomes at CI’s agencies and community centers.

This individual facilitates and orchestrates proactive and holistic technology solutions needed to enable current and future-state capabilities that, in turn, drive targeted program outcomes. Deliverables include systems (applications, processes and information), shared services and components.

Responsibilities

  • Understand business drivers and business capabilities (current and future-state) for agencies and community centers and determine corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements to drive targeted business outcomes.
  • Provide consulting support to IT and PMO on international projects to ensure the project is aligned with the overall international enterprise architecture.
  • Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving agency business and operating models.
  • Understand, advocate and augment the principles of information technology strategies needed to enable and support CI program delivery.
  • As a member of the IT Enterprise Architecture (EA) Committee, design and direct the governance activities associated with ensuring international solutions architecture assurance and compliance.
  • Define, manage, and direct the evaluation and implementation of shared services solutions needed to support agencies and community centers.
  • Build consensus and commitment between IT, agencies, and business units for achieving CI’s international vision through strategic and tactical plans.
  • Define, manage and direct the needed end-to-end PMO work effort, which includes leveraging best practices and techniques in identifying, quantifying and tracking the realization of expected benefits defined in business cases.
  • Build consensus and commitment for achieving the organization’s vision.
  • Meticulously manage the transformation involved in maturing/improving global technology capabilities.
Education
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, business administration or related field, or equivalent work experience.
Experience
  • Ten or more years of experience in IT; minimum five years of experience in leadership.
  • Five or more years of experience collaborating and interacting with global business leadership.
  • Minimum five years of experience in at least two IT solution development disciplines including technical architecture, applications development, middleware, database management or business intelligence (BI).
  • Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments.
  • Good understanding of strategic and new and emerging technology trends, and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to new and evolving business and operating models.
  • Understanding of agile methods and processes; capable of supporting agile project teams by providing advice and guidance on opportunities, impact and risks, including taking account of technical and architectural debt.
  • Demonstrated experience in leading diverse teams.
Knowledge and Skills
  • Must be bilingual: fluent in written and spoken English and Spanish.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation.
  • Strong leadership skills.
  • Excellent strategic and tactical analytical and technical skills.
  • Excellent planning and organizational skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain IT concepts and technologies to business leaders and business concepts to IT and PMO staff.
  • Knowledge of all components of an enterprise technical architecture.
  • Ability to define and build distributed support models for international business units.
  • A distinctive blend of business, IT, financial and communication skills. (This is a highly visible position with substantial impact.)
  • Strong business acumen, including ability to absorb and apply industry, domain-specific knowledge of the enterprise and its business units.
  • Demonstrated ability to develop and execute a strategic resource plan.
  • Must be able to travel 20-25%; possibly 30-40% within the first six months.

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