Description Why this role is open: client recently received a large grant and have aggressive goals over the next 5 years. Those include expanding their outreach into different cities, expanding their training and curriculum capabilities, increasing their student enrollment, and increasing the % of learners who land professional engagements. With all of this work, they need a new Director, SME IT and Cybersecurity.

Goals to accomplish with this roll: Designing, maintaining and overseeing the IT/infrastructure/networking & cloud trainings, products & curriculums. Developing new training, curriculums, certificates and more. Overseeing and managing their catalogue of trainings meeting the needs of their content developers. Working with content developers to do skill transfers, knowledge transfers.

Collaboration with: VP of Technology and Product Development, External clients, stakeholders at client Course and Curriculum Developers, Software Development, Devops, product service team, infrastructure cloud team, sales, marketing, and more.

Reporting to: Senior Director of Product Design

Candidate background: Likely a former Network/Systems/Infrastructure/Cloud or Cybersecurity person. Must want to train and teach others. Could also be a former IT Manager who was hands on but also wants to train others. Not going to be an academic or teaching person. Cybersecurity is a plus.

Day to day: attending sales meetings, closing new clients, working with technology vendors, developing curriculums, working with development to implement course changes, working with Devops to integrate course changes, physical IT infrastructure work at ensuring the tech environment of training facilities is up to their technical standards, converting cybersecurity/IT vendors into authorized training providers, attending stakeholder meetings, project management, going to physical offices and upgrading technologies.

Tech environment: client is Gsuite shop Google workspace, Asana for PM tool, Asana, Smartsheet, Air table database, Salesforce, Chat GPT, AI tosol to help them. On the Backend they have: AWS, Azure, hands on with, VMWare, technology vendors, familiar with in-demand tech in the industry, end user IT support Requirements Cloud Technologies, ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning, Backup Technologies, Computer Hardware, Contracts, B2B Sales, Digital sales, Direct Sales, IT Sales, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Windows Azure, VMware, Vmware Infrastructure, Vmware Technologies, Cyber Security, Cyber security engineering, Cyber security policies, Cyber security standards, Cyber security strategy, Curriculum Development, Computer based training, Employee Training, Cross-Training, IT Training, Online training Technology Doesn't Change the World, People Do.®

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