This is a pro-bono volunteer position.

JerseySTEM is looking for talented professionals across our departments to commit time and energy as long-term engagement for our mission to provide STEM education to underrepresented middle school girls.

• The Head of the IT department manages a team of 4-6 technical leads (and their respective associates) supporting the following technologies: GSuite, Salesforce, Jira, Slack.
• This is not a technical job, this is a people management job.

• As part of the executive committee, represent the IT department
• Run the department weekly team meeting
• Set SLA goals for each department
• Promote best practice of documentation, grooming the succession
• Maintain a culture of openness, sharing and welcoming input/feedback.
• No turf or pride of ownership: the goal is to create programs to serve the kids.

• Have a service mentality: Business/Users are your clients
• Ability to build and lead a team: articulate overall strategy, get buy in from team, get leads to work together
• Communicate, Communicate, Communicate
• Sense of urgency: getting things done today is better than getting them done tomorrow
• Cheerleader in chief for the technology department
• Exposure to all or some of these technologies
• Obsessive documenter
• 8-10 hours per week, 12+ month commitment

This is a pro-bono volunteer position.