| JOB SUMMARY: |
As we continue to expand our project delivery, product offering, and client service capabilities, we are seeking a dynamic and experienced Senior Director of Technology to join our executive team, helping drive the Advanced Data Solutions ongoing growth and transformation.
Reporting directly to the Vice President of ADS, the successful candidate will be a strategic leader with exceptional decision-making capabilities, a strong background in financial management, outstanding client management and relationship skills, and the ability to build and lead a team of high performers.
The Senior Director will oversee delivery excellence for the ADS portfolio of projects, providing strategic oversight to Project Managers, technical leaders, and delivery teams. Contributions and key elements of this role include assuming the responsibilities of Project Director, as needed, to ensure seamless project oversight and client management, collaborating with IT/Engineering and security teams to address technology escalations, strategizing with the Business Development Director to explore new service offerings, and working with the Legal team to manage contractual obligations.
In partnership with the Finance team, the Senior Director will monitor the fiscal health of the ADS administrative, product infrastructure, investment, and portfolio budgets. The successful candidate will work closely with the Operations Director to lead the bi-annual project and administrative Cost-to-Complete exercises.
Additionally, the Senior Director, along with the ADS leadership team, will develop and implement the Center’s growth, delivery, and product strategies, and its operational model. This includes playing a key role in talent acquisition and staff development and retention and aligning the team’s capabilities with ADS’s long-term goals.
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| DEPARTMENT: Advanced Data Solutions |
The ADS Center provides imaginative and outcome-driven products and services to deliver innovative and tailored research technology solutions to government and private organizations interested in solving complex research questions facing today’s world. We leverage over 18 years’ experience providing data governance, access, management, analysis, and dissemination of high-risk sensitive and confidential data assets to support our client’s programs and a robust researcher community. Our expertise and reputation as thought leader in confidential data management is demonstrated by the research technologies with develop and implement like the market-defining NORC Data Enclave®.
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| RESPONSIBILITIES: |
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Work closely with manager(s) within the area of operations to ensure NORC policies are followed and that projects are managed effectively within budget, scope, time, and quality.
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Develop criteria and oversee the appropriate balance between staff satisfaction, and the time, budget, and quality constraints of projects and NORC. Advise on project staffing and training needs to improve the execution of projects.
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Oversee budget expenditures within the department, reporting variances and suggesting solutions to align plan vs actual cost. Assist project directors in identifying an effective and efficient approach to IT project work, within the project constraints of budget, schedule, scope, and quality.
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| SALARY AND BENEFITS: |
The pay range for this position is $177,000 – $265,000.
This position is classified as regular. Regular staff are eligible for NORC’s comprehensive benefits program. Benefits include, but are not limited to:
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Generously subsidized health insurance, effective on the first day of employment
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Dental and vision insurance
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A defined contribution retirement program, along with a separate voluntary 403(b) retirement program
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Group life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance
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Benefits that promote work/life balance, including generous paid time off, holidays; paid parental leave, bereavement leave, tuition assistance, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
NORC’s Approach to Equity and Transparency
Pay and benefits transparency helps to reduce wage gaps. As part of our commitment to pay equity and salary transparency, NORC includes a salary range for each job opening along with information about eligible benefit offerings. At NORC, we take a comprehensive approach to setting salary ranges and reviewing raises and promotions, which is overseen by a formal Salary Review Committee (SRC).
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| WHAT WE DO: |
NORC at the University of Chicago is an objective, non-partisan research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analysis to guide critical programmatic, business, and policy decisions. Since 1941, our teams have conducted groundbreaking studies, created and applied innovative methods and tools, and advanced principles of scientific integrity and collaboration. Today, government, corporate, and nonprofit clients around the world partner with us to transform increasingly complex information into useful knowledge.
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| WHO WE ARE: |
For over 80 years, NORC has evolved in many ways, moving the needle with research methods, technical applications and groundbreaking research findings. But our tradition of excellence, passion for innovation, and commitment to collegiality have remained constant components of who we are as a brand, and who each of us is as a member of the NORC team. With world-class benefits, a business casual environment, and an emphasis on continuous learning, NORC is a place where people join for the stellar research and analysis work for which we’re known, and stay for the relationships they form with their colleagues who take pride in the impact their work is making on a global scale.
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| EEO STATEMENT: |
NORC is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer that values and actively seeks diversity in the workforce. NORC evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, gender identity, and other legally protected characteristics.
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