MCC is a comprehensive, two-year, rural community college dedicated to enhancing careers, lives and futures. Our mission is to serve our communities and students by providing an environment for educational excellence, innovation and awareness.  

At the current time, we offer our employees a comprehensive including 23-25 paid holidays per year; a generous leave policy; basic medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage provided at no cost to the employee; matched contributions to state retirement program, and much more.  

MCC serves the northwest corner of the State of Arizona (Mohave County) and its neighboring communities in California, Nevada and Utah. Mohave County's location provides residents with an assortment of activities to suit all interests. Our warm, dry Southwestern climate is perfect for year-round outdoor recreation. With 1,000 miles of freshwater shoreline, activities such as boating, fishing, skiing and swimming are readily available.   Numerous national and state parks and forests provide ample opportunities for hiking and camping in either the mountains or the desert. Winter sports are available a couple of hours away at the Arizona Snowbowl in Flagstaff or at Mt. Charleston in the Toiyabe National Forest just north of Las Vegas.  

Glitz, glitter and sophisticated entertainment can be found nearby in Las Vegas or Phoenix and the local communities offer many fine art performances year-round. Annual events include vintage automobile shows, bluegrass festivals, International Jet Ski competitions, top marquee entertainers, rodeos, chili cook-offs, and the county fair.  

JOB NUMBER 5-145 – DIRECTOR, INFRASTRUCTURE

This position is located in Kingman, Arizona

Position Closes: Open until filled – 1st review date 11/9/09.

Please check our website for status updates - www.mohave.edu 

Job Summary:

Reporting directly to the chief information officer, this position will be responsible for developing and keeping current the overall network architecture of the college. This includes ensuring the following tasks are completed, either personally or through subordinate staff members.  

This position will direct and coordinate the activities of a technology staff, plus a number of students, engaged in applications support, desktop support, lab support, networking, telephony, Web, and media services. This position will be responsible for managing subordinate supervisors who supervise employees in several functional groups and for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of these groups. 

This position works with limited supervision and will work non-traditional hours including nights and weekends to include being on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or five to seven years related experience and/or training; or any combination of experience, training and/or education which demonstrates potential for success in performing the essential duties of the position as listed above.   A minimum of 5 years of IT management experience in the past 10 years. 

Knowledge Required:

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  Application of efficiency and effectiveness measures in a "standards, benchmarks, and key results' management environment.
  
  
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  Comprehensive knowledge of college policies and procedures.
  
  
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  Knowledge of network, communications systems, data center operational support, desktop computing, Web services, and help desk management.
  
  
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  Knowledge of Microsoft and UNIX platforms, Windows Active Directory, MS Exchange, VoIP, and Cisco routers and switches.
  
  
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  Knowledge of performance tuning, capacity planning, systems management & networking on multiple computing platforms.
  
  
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  Knowledge of the principles and practices of leadership and team building.
  
  
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  Microsoft Office Professional and Project.  

Skills Required:

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  Willingness to work to fully implement the college's "standards, benchmarks, and key results" management paradigm in all decision making within the comprehensive community college environment.  
  
  
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  Excellent communications (written and oral) and documentation skills.
  
  
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  Detail oriented with ability to assign appropriate importance to events and actions.
  
  
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  Ability to work closely with user community of administrators and faculty.
  
  
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  Ability to work in an environment having a user community directed IT Governance structure.
  
  
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  Ability to listen to the user community and translate into potential action.
  
  
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  Ability to build and work closely with teams.
  
  
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  Strong Project Management/Activities skills.
  
  
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  Skill in the use of modern office equipment including Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel, Outlook Express and the use of the Internet.

Examples of tasks (does not include all tasks that may be assigned):

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  Responsible for managing institutional communications utilizing a communications plan; services including service recovery activities and technical emergencies. Responsible for maintaining infrastructure to ensure provision of the highest possible availability of services in a higher education environment. 
  
  
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  Responsible for managing technology including, management of Jenzabar EX ERP, Unix/Windows Active Directory based LAN environment, Exchange/Outlook email system, wireless networks, network security, wide area network operations in a multi-site environment, desktop support services and IP telephony.
  
  
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  Supervise and review the performance of professional, technical staff and subordinate staff. Supervision includes training, delegation of work assignments, employee evaluation and discipline, and employee hire/termination, promotion and pay rate change recommendations.
  
  
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  Evaluate and recommend support policies and procedures for LAN, WAN, routers, switches, firewall, VPN, server system software and hardware systems, desktops, telephony and web hardware and connectivity.
  
  
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  Manage projects and activities through structured planning and oversight resources using MCC's official project planning tools. Make procurement recommendations for project management of systems implementations, to maintain networked systems and software.
  
  
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  Meet with a variety of users to determine quality of service, identify needs, and initiate service and operation improvements.
  
  
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  Maintain current knowledge of industry trends and standards. Adhere to college, federal and state administrative procedures, guidelines, initiatives and directives to ensure compliance with all relevant regulations affecting college operations.
  
  
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  Perform other tasks of a similar nature or level as assigned.

Physical Requirements and Potential Hazards:

Light Work: Light work involves lifting no more than 20 pounds at a time with frequent lifting or carrying of objects weighing up to 10 pounds. Even though the weight lifted may be very little, a job is in this category when it requires a good deal of walking or standing, or when it involves sitting most of the time with some pushing and pulling of arm or leg controls. To be considered capable of performing a full or wide range of light work, you must have the ability to do substantially all of these activities. If someone can do light work, we determine that he or she can also do sedentary work, unless there are additional limiting factors such as loss of fine dexterity or inability to sit for long periods of time.   May often be exposed to individuals who are hostile, angry or frustrated.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Required Application Materials:

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   Mohave Community College Application. Packets that do not contain an MCC Regular Employment Application will be considered incomplete, will be returned to the applicant and will not be considered.  If you do not have MS Word, you may print the application for completion.
   
   
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   A cover letter of interest. Address letter to Human Resources Specialist.
   
   
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   Contact information for three professional references.  

APPLICATION NOTES:

Submit only required application materials. Extraneous application materials will not be forwarded to the selection committee. Only complete packets will be considered. In order to ensure full consideration of your application packet, please email all items together. The MCC regular application is in Microsoft Word format and can be saved to your computer for completion and then attached to an email. All documents included in your application file become the property of the college and will not be returned. Your application for this opening cannot be used in consideration for future openings. If mailed, all items must be submitted on standard weight, white bond paper.

Send complete application packets to:  apply@mohave.edu (email)

Or via postal mail to:

Human Resources Mohave Community College

1971 Jagerson Avenue

Kingman, AZ 86409 (928) 757-0875 (fax)