Academic Technology Manager: Strategic Initiatives

University of Texas at Austin

1d • $75,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Academic Technology Manager: Strategic Initiatives is responsible for overseeing the Office of Academic Technology roadmap. The position manages end-to-end project and initiative execution from requirements gathering, stakeholder mapping, risk mitigation, and user testing, to evaluation and continuous improvement efforts. As the senior business analyst, the role uses established principles to ensure complex academic technology initiatives are delivered effectively and in alignment with organizational priorities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in educational technology, business administration, information systems, or design with 5 years of experience as a business analyst, project manager, systems analyst or related role in a large enterprise.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully deliver and manage 5 or more complex academic or technology related projects from initiation through completion.
• Experience working and maintaining strong business relationships with senior executives in an education setting.
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communication skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Highly responsive to leadership with a proven ability to troubleshoot issues, mitigate risk, and make timely decisions.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments while managing multiple competing deadlines with professionalism and decorum at all times.
• Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree with more than 5 years of professional experience managing complex projects in a higher education setting.
• Familiarity with UT systems and academic technology initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis and manage comprehensive project plans — including developing scope, timelines, milestones, resource allocation and tracking systems for academic technology initiatives across OAT's portfolio.
• Gather, document, and translate business requirements from various university stakeholders (CSUs, faculty, and staff) into actionable project specifications and deliverables.
• Ensure solutions meet business requirements through established quality assurance and testing practices.
• Consistently monitor complex technical and business systems in order to identify early project risks and dependencies; develop and execute mitigation strategies to maintain timeline and quality commitments across concurrent initiatives.
• Lead the execution of projects and initiatives by collaborating with cross-functional teams with a range of audiences, including executives, design, training, technical, and vendor teams, to ensure seamless progression from planning through deployment of academic technology initiatives.
• Advocate for teams by identifying and reducing friction.
• Establish and maintain academic technology documentation processes — including status reporting, change management protocols, standard operating procedures, and post-implementation reviews — to ensure accountability and continuous process improvement.
• Provide operational support to the Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Technology across the portfolio – assist with investigating and resolving problems.
• Perform other related functions as assigned, including serving as an individual contributor on some projects.

Benefits

• The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior