The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is recruiting for a chief information officer (IT manager II) who would also serve as IT operation manager for the Office of Information Technology Services.
The CIO position opened with the recent promotion of Rob Peterson to the role of CDFA’s agency information officer (AIO).
“The IT Operation Manager/CIO must have broad experience in IT activities and operations,” the job posting says, including “application/systems development and support, IT project management and related CDT (California Department of Technology) processes and oversight, statewide infrastructure operations, IT security and privacy, service desk operations, telecommunications, IT asset management, IT procurement, contracting, and budgeting, and process and staff management, development, and improvement.”
The CIO provides day-to-day supervision and oversight over all the department’s IT sections, including Applications Development Services, Customer Support and Services, Information Security and Infrastructure Operations, the Technology Governance Section, and the Enterprise Architecture Section.
“Critical to this position, the incumbent must have a broad and deep background and experience in working in all IT domains,” the posting specifies. “An additional key component of this position is that the incumbent must be able to establish relationships with all subordinate managers and supervisors and be highly skilled at building management team relationships between the managers and supervisors.”
More details about the CIO position are available in the duty statement.
The position has a monthly salary range of $9,725 to $11,821, and the application deadline is April 19.
Peterson had been the department’s CIO for almost five years before his elevation last month. In the AIO role, he succeeded Jennifer Chan, who moved to the CIO position at the California State Lottery in January.
