The American Heart Association (AHA) has an excellent opportunity for a Manager Systems, Digital Programs in our National Center office located in Dallas, Texas .
Areas of Responsibility:
- Oversees development, configuration, and usage of assigned application system for AHA business units to meet ongoing technology needs.
- Manages application programming, accessibility, and security. Provides detailed monthly reporting on usage, customization, changes to system support, and educates AHA staff.
- Manages associated 3rd party vendor relationships, including ongoing support, contractual and cost reviews.
- Leads project scope development with project managers. Communicates project status and time estimates for remaining work on a regular basis to appropriate staff. Prepares project status reports and conducts status meetings, as needed, with the product sponsor(s), business expert(s), user design team and senior management.
- Attracts, develops, coaches and supervises team staff. Manages activities with complete integrity and in accordance with AHA policies, systems, practices and programs.
- Participates in Business Technology planning process providing resource allocation information, high-level project estimates and technical guidance to all departments and levels within the organization. Participates in annual budgeting process.
Educational Background:
Bachelor's Degree from a four year college or university or equivalent work experience.
Skills/Experience:
- Minimum of eight (8) years of experience in application systems management, configuration, or programming.
- Minimum of five (5) years of experience overseeing technology provided through internal platform or Service as a Software (SaaS) vendors.
- Experience in strategic planning, including the ability to focus on overall strategic goals of the Association and dependencies on the assigned application system.
- Experience supervising a team of analysts, developers, or administrators.
- Comprehensive technical skills with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, API methods.
- Ability to communicate, both verbally and on paper; tailoring the form and method of communications to the needs and perceptions of the recipients
- Ability to break complex problems down into simple elements and to solve them logically
- Ability to embrace and drive change, as well as remove barriers to change or accelerate the pace of change.
- Ability to attract, develop and coach staff.
- Strong time management skills with demonstrated experience in managing complex web environments.
- Must be able to travel overnight approx. 5% of the time.
Here are some of the preferred skills we are looking for:
- Experience with Donor Engagement Systems (Blackbaud Luminate, Greater Giving, and CrowdRise).
- Knowledge of web development principles.
- Basic knowledge of vendor management best practices.
- Knowledge of Agile development principles.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Apr 30 2019
Active Until:
May 30 2019
Hiring Organization:
American Heart Association | American Stroke Association
industry:
Nonprofit