Ellucian
CIO
🇺🇸 Lawrenceville, NJ
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Information Technology
🗓️ May 1st, 2025
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a CIO. This role involves leading digital transformation efforts at Rider University, serving as a strategic advisor to the institution’s leadership, and ensuring alignment with university-wide collaboration and Ellucian objectives. Responsibilities also include managing technology modernization efforts and fostering engagement across all university levels.
Highlights
- Drive technology transformation and effective change within the institution.
- Develop strong relationships with faculty, staff, and students.
- Establish goals and policies for the IT division to support the university’s strategic plan.
- Implement and communicate technology governance processes.
- 10+ years of IT field experience in a higher education environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Comprehensive health coverage, including medical, dental, and vision.
- Flexible time off and a 401k with a match.
- Professional development and education assistance programs.
- Employee referral bonuses.
CIO Full Description
CIO (ONSITE - Rider University, NJ)
- 2083 Lawrenceville Rd, Lawrenceville, New Jersey, US, 08648
- Services
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
Ellucian is seeking a Head of Digital Transformation & CIO who will work onsite at Rider University. As the Head of Digital Transformation & CIO reporting directly to the Vice President of University Operations, you will be the trusted advisor to the Rider University executive leadership team and senior most technology leader on campus. You will facilitate the strategic, forward-thinking vision to better advance the university’s adoption of information technology and business process optimization through meaningful campus communications and enablement practices. You will manage strategic and tactical initiatives and build consensus around the value of university-wide collaboration in a private higher education institution, while ensuring the alignment of Ellucian strategy, processes, and resources.
The ideal candidate must have the ability to collaborate across all levels of the university and infuse current practices with creative problem solving through positive relationships. The position requires professionalism, confidentiality, organization, prioritization, excellent interpersonal skills, strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to garner respect and confidence of colleagues through listening, learning, and forging working relationships and synergies across the university.
Where you will make an impact
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.
Values Rooted in Purpose
We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.
About the Opportunity
Ellucian is seeking a Head of Digital Transformation & CIO who will work onsite at Rider University. As the Head of Digital Transformation & CIO reporting directly to the Vice President of University Operations, you will be the trusted advisor to the Rider University executive leadership team and senior most technology leader on campus. You will facilitate the strategic, forward-thinking vision to better advance the university’s adoption of information technology and business process optimization through meaningful campus communications and enablement practices. You will manage strategic and tactical initiatives and build consensus around the value of university-wide collaboration in a private higher education institution, while ensuring the alignment of Ellucian strategy, processes, and resources.
The ideal candidate must have the ability to collaborate across all levels of the university and infuse current practices with creative problem solving through positive relationships. The position requires professionalism, confidentiality, organization, prioritization, excellent interpersonal skills, strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to garner respect and confidence of colleagues through listening, learning, and forging working relationships and synergies across the university.
Where you will make an impact
- Drive technology transformation and effective change within the institution, ensuring constituents are consulted, informed and enabled along the way.
- Develop and sustain positive relationships with the institution’s community members - faculty, staff and students.
- Establish and direct the goals, policies, procedures and outcomes of the IT division in support of the university’s strategic plan and core objectives in tight collaboration with the functional teams.
- Maintain an exceptionally high level of professionalism, responsiveness, and ongoing proactive collaboration.
- Communicate strategic priorities and implementation plans to internal and external stakeholders.
- Implement a modern technology governance process that effectively considers and integrates with established university-wide policies and practices; communicate governance processes, plans and status updates on a regular basis with related functional division leadership.
- Assess, anticipate, and lead technology modernization projects and recommend appropriate action and resources.
- Help translate goals into executable tactics through identifying responsible parties, needed resources, deadlines, and assessments.
- Stay abreast of emerging higher education issues as well as trends in technology and development.
What will you bring
- 10+ years of experience in the Information Technology field or equivalent combination of education and experience leading strategic technology initiatives in a college or university environment.
- Knowledge of higher education with the ability to be sensitive and tactful, with high emotional intelligence.
- Current knowledge of use and trends of technology in higher education.
- Strong advising, empathizing and influencing abilities.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong information technology project management skills.
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
What makes #Ellucianlife
- Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision
- Flexible time off
- Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
- 401k w/ match & BrightPlan - to help you save for the future
- Parental Leave
- 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
- Telemedicine
- Wellness
- Headspace Care (mental health)
- Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
- RethinkCare & Wellthy– caregiver support
- Diversity and inclusion programs which provide access to internal employee resource groups
- Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
- We Foster a learning culture with:
- Education Assistance Program
- Professional development opportunities
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#LI-ONSITE
At Ellucian, we believe in the “power of together.” We embrace an inclusive workplace, and believe that our differences help inspire a culture of acceptance that makes our company more collaborative and innovative. We’re proud to provide equal employment opportunities for job applicants and for our employees, and we are committed to providing a process and an environment that is free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), and other legally protected classifications. These protections extend to all management practices and decisions, including recruitment and hiring, appraisal systems, promotions, training, and career development programs. To enable employees to perform essential functions of their positions and to offer applicants a meaningful opportunity to be considered for positions, we also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees and applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, observances, and practices. This job posting is intended to comply with all applicable laws. If we learn during the course of our recruitment process that, due to an applicant’s location, further information about the position is required, including certain salary information, the information in this posting will be supplemented accordingly. Additionally, we are aware of fake applicant schemes and have rigorous internal processes in place to mitigate such risk and inform proper authorities of any such instances that arise.
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