Sacramento-Area County Seeks IT Exec

A historic Gold Country county is seeking an IT executive.

The county of Placer is looking to hire an information technology manager, in a recruitment that opened Thursday. It’s an unclassified position according to the job posting and “serves at the pleasure of the Appointing Authority.”

This is a management role and the successful candidate will prioritize department resources, and wield “direct supervision over management, supervisory, professional, and technical personnel.” The IT manager reports to Chief Information Officer Jarrett Thiessen and has “senior management responsibility for planning, organizing, and directing” day-to-day operations of the IT Service Desk, Systems Administration, and Geographic Information Systems. Specific responsibilities include developing short- and long-range plans for delivering program objectives; operational process improvement; administration of the unit’s $9.9 million budget; oversight of 23 staffers; procurement of tech-related items, business development, outreach to partners and customers, and strategic planning around tech.

The county’s IT manager oversees “administration of server and desktop hardware, virtualization software, operating systems, cloud infrastructure, and disaster recovery systems.” The person in this role also manages the IT Service Desk, which includes “first- and second-tier technical support for incidents, service requests, change notifications, county-wide PC deployments, and any related communications.” The person hired also oversees Placer’s county-wide GIS program and works with its various departments. As a manager-level position, the successful candidate will, generally, “provide full line and functional management responsibility for a division or program area within a department.”

Duties include:

• Direct, oversee and participate in the development of the Information Technology operations work plan; assign work activities, projects and programs; monitor workflow; and review and evaluate work products, methods and procedures.
• Plan, organize and direct assigned information systems activities including planning, implementation, support and troubleshooting.
• Evaluate and prepare recommendations on requests for systems development and equipment or the feasibility of computer applications.
• Provide oversight and coordination of emergency response capability for computer service on a seven-day, 24-hour basis.
• Prepare the Information Technology operations budget; assist in budget implementation; participate in the forecast of funds needed for staffing, equipment, materials and supplies; and administer the approved budget.
• Represent the division to outside agencies and organizations; participate in outside community and professional groups and committees; and provide technical assistance as necessary.
• Provide advice to personnel of the division and other county departments on future Information Technology direction based upon knowledge and industry trends and standards.
  

Minimum qualifications include five years’ “increasingly responsible experience” in IT “involving direct experience in systems development, programming and/or operations; including two years of supervisory responsibility.” Training includes the equivalent of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with “major course work in computer science, information systems, telecommunications management, business administration, public administration” or a related field. A master’s degree is desirable.

This position has a monthly salary range of $9,763.87 to $12,195.73, and the application deadline is 5 p.m. April 7.