Ellucian
Head of Digital Transformation/CIO (Digital Transformation Exp REQUIRED/ONSITE at Victor Valley College, CA)
🇺🇸 Victorville, CA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Project Management
🗓️ October 12th, 2025
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Ellucian is hiring a Head of Digital Transformation/CIO to lead technology strategy and transformation initiatives at Victor Valley College. The role involves advising the President, driving technology adoption, communicating strategic priorities, and collaborating with the CCC community to align technology with institutional goals.
Highlights
- Lead strategic and tactical technology initiatives aligned with the college's strategic plan.
- Advise the President and engage with executive leadership and campus stakeholders.
- Implement modern technology governance and manage technology projects effectively.
- Collaborate across the California Community Colleges (CCC) system to align technology leadership.
- Maintain knowledge of higher education technology trends and state requirements.
- Require 10+ years IT experience, preferably in higher education, with executive leadership exposure.
- Experience with Ellucian administrative and academic computing solutions, including Ellucian Student (Colleague preferred).
- Offer comprehensive health benefits, flexible time off, 401k with match, parental leave, and wellness programs.
- Relocation assistance is provided for this onsite position.
- Supportive of diversity, inclusion, and professional development programs.
Head of Digital Transformation/CIO (Digital Transformation Exp REQUIRED/ONSITE at Victor Valley College, CA) Full Description
Head of Digital Transformation/CIO (Digital Transformation Exp REQUIRED/ONSITE at Victor Valley College, CA)
- 18422 Bear Valley Road, Victorville, California, US, 92395
- Services
- 6357
- Up to 25%
About Ellucian
Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,800 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
**This position offers relocation assistance**
Ellucian is seeking to hire a Head of Digital Transformation/CIO that will work onsite at Victor Valley College. As the CIO, you will be a trusted advisor to the President on the advancement of innovative technology strategy, adoption and impact to the college. You will lead both strategic and tactical activities and campus communications to build consensus around the value of collaboration in a public higher education institution as a member of the CCC community and engaging with other CIOs, while ensuring the alignment of Ellucian strategy, processes, and resources to drive the institution’s strategic plan. The incumbent must have the ability to challenge conventional thinking with new ideas, approaches, and solutions through personal influence to promote transformation. 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 college.
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 2,800 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
**This position offers relocation assistance**
Ellucian is seeking to hire a Head of Digital Transformation/CIO that will work onsite at Victor Valley College. As the CIO, you will be a trusted advisor to the President on the advancement of innovative technology strategy, adoption and impact to the college. You will lead both strategic and tactical activities and campus communications to build consensus around the value of collaboration in a public higher education institution as a member of the CCC community and engaging with other CIOs, while ensuring the alignment of Ellucian strategy, processes, and resources to drive the institution’s strategic plan. The incumbent must have the ability to challenge conventional thinking with new ideas, approaches, and solutions through personal influence to promote transformation. 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 college.
Where you will make an impact
- Maintain an exceptionally high level of professionalism, responsiveness, and ongoing proactive collaboration with the President and other Executive Leadership Team Members.
- Develop and sustain positive relationships with the institution’s community, faculty, staff and students.
- Establish and direct the strategic and tactical goals, policies, and procedures in the best interest of the institution.
- Communicate strategic priorities and implementation plans to internal and external stakeholders.
- Drive technology transformation and change within the institution, ensuring the campus is informed, consulted and enabled along the way.
- Implement a modern technology governance process.
- Communicate governance process, plans, and status updates.
- Assess, anticipate, and manage technology projects and recommend appropriate action and resources.
- Help translate goals into executable tactics through identifying responsible parties, needed resources, deadlines, and assessments.
- Participation and collaboration across the CCC system of CIOs to bring effective technology leadership aligned with the CCC Chancellor's Office.
- Stay abreast of emerging higher education issues, trends in technology and development, and State of California requirements, MIS Reporting and Legislative critical points of attention/awareness.
- Perform other duties as delegated by the President.
- Serve as an industry and customer expert back into the broader Ellucian departments/divisions.
What will you bring
- 10+ years of experience in the Information Technology field or equivalent combination of education and experience leading IT strategic initiatives in a college or university environment.
- Prior experience serving on campus executive leadership teams including the President.
- The successful candidate must have broad direct and relevant knowledge of higher education with the ability to be sensitive and tactful, with high emotional intelligence.
- Current knowledge in use and trends of technology in higher education.
- Good understanding of Ellucian administrative/academic computing solutions, Ellucian Student (Colleague Preferred), and other third-party systems/solutions connected to the ERP/SIS.
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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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.
We’re excited by your interest in Ellucian! Please know that all authentic communication regarding any aspect of our hiring process will always come from an @ellucian.com email address. If you receive a message from any other source, it isn’t from us. When in doubt, you can always contact talentacquisition@ellucian.com. Additionally, you can visit https://careers.ellucian.com to verify any external job posting
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