Director, ERP Services

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Reflects the diversity of our community
• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and under represented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

As an open access and low-cost institution, ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to the diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds of our students. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Director, ERP Services

Job Description Summary:

To manage and direct the evaluation, implementation, and development of the college-wide Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) replacement program. To provide leadership and oversight over the vendor selection process and the selected vendor during implementation of the selected ERP system. To provide ongoing maintenance and enhancements to the new ERP system and to ensure the transition and off-boarding of the existing Colleague ERP system.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

• Advises and consults with other departments on production software issues, concerns, problems, and questions.
• Provides oversight and serves as an interface to executive management for large, campuswide administrative system upgrades.
• Evaluates programming techniques and training needs, then selects and implements training as required.
• Recommends selection of, trains or directs training of, supervisors and coordinators, and evaluates performance of professional staff.

Knowledge

• Current principles and practices of information technology and applications development in an education environment.
• Computer languages, technologies, and protocols.
• Strategic planning, budgeting, and operations within an information technology department.
• Project initiation, prioritization, and information technology allocation processes.
• Management and implementation of organization-wide administrative software projects.
• Systems analysis, database design, and program design.
• Programming techniques and associated training needs identification and implementation.
• Supervisory principles, practices, and methods.

Skills

• Make recommendations that impact the budget.
• Maintaining an established work schedule.
• Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills, including tact and diplomacy.
• Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
• Providing technical leadership for administrative systems.
• Effectively managing applications development projects related to administrative systems, including student systems, human resources and finance, as well as other organization-wide applications.
• Interfacing with executive management regarding large administrative systems upgrades.
• Consulting and advising departments in relation to software issues and concerns.
• Assessing and prioritizing multiple tasks, projects, and demands.
• Effectively supervising, leading, and delegating tasks and authority.
• Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
• Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

Technology Skills

• Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
• Use query and control languages, programming languages, and database systems.

Required Work Experience

• Three years related work experience including one year supervisory experience. Education cannot be substituted for supervisory experience.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree.

Physical Requirements

• Work is performed in a standard office or similar environment.
• Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
• Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Safety

• Supervise safe operation of unit. Facilitate safety inspections. Take reasonable and prudent actions to eliminate identified hazards. Ensure employees receive appropriate safety training and foster a workplace safety culture.

Salary Range $88,751 - $126,787

Reports to Associate Vice Chancellor, Development & Solutions Delivery

Number of Openings:

1

Job Posting Close Date:

May 31, 2022

ACC Benefits Overview

Full-time faculty and staffing table employees who work in full-time and/or part-time positions at the college are eligible for ACC medical benefits effective the first of the month after their first 60 days of employment. Benefits include medical, dental, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, retirement plans and AD&D.

ACC does not participate in Social Security. ACC participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and the Optional Retirement Program (ORP-Faculty and Administrators Only). Part-time and Hourly employees participate in the ACC Money Purchase Plan (ACCMPP) as a retirement program required by federal law.

EEO Statement

The Austin Community College District is an Equal Opportunity Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, political affiliation or other protected categories.

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under the Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC as its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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