Associate Registrar, Systems, Data Management & Operations

MIT•Cambridge, MA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Associate Registrar, Systems, Data Management and Operations, in the Registrar’s Office, provides strategic and operational leadership for MIT’s central academic and student information systems portfolio, including MITSIS and more than 40 integrated applications and data services. The role is accountable for the reliability, security, continuity, and evolution of systems supporting the official student record and core Institute processes, including registration, grading, scheduling, curriculum, academic records, degree audit, transcripts, and institutional reporting. The position shapes and executes the Registrar’s Office technology vision; leads systems strategy, technology planning, and business-process improvement; and manages complex enterprise-system implementations, integrations, and modernization initiatives. It also oversees data access control, reporting, analysis, decision support, vendors and contracts, project portfolios and priorities, and leadership, mentorship, and talent development. The role involves collaboration, communication, and change enablement, and is suited to someone comfortable working independently in a hybrid office environment and communicating asynchronously.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
At least seven years of progressively responsible experience in enterprise systems, technology planning, systems implementation, data management, or project/program management.
At least two years of supervisory, functional, or project leadership responsibility.
Demonstrated experience leading complex enterprise-system implementations, integrations, and/or modernization initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, vendors, data platforms, and business processes.
Ability to help shape and execute a technology vision for the Registrar’s Office.
Ability to set priorities with a strong bias for action and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Demonstrated organizational awareness and willingness and ability to lead change.
Ability to think strategically, act decisively, and speak with authority.
Knowledge of professional standards, including federal and state laws.
Excellent managerial, interpersonal, and team-development skills.
Comfort working independently in a hybrid office environment and communicating asynchronously.
Skills in student systems strategy and technology leadership; technology strategy and business-process improvement; project, portfolio, and priority management; vendor and contract management; data access control, reporting, analysis, and decision support; leadership, mentorship, and talent development; and collaboration, communication, and change enablement.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree.
Experience working with MITSIS and student systems.
Excellent data analysis, interpretation, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

Provide strategic and operational leadership for MIT’s central academic and student information systems portfolio, including MITSIS and more than 40 integrated applications and data services.
Ensure the reliability, security, continuity, and evolution of systems supporting the official student record and core Institute processes.
Help shape and execute a technology vision for the Registrar’s Office.
Lead complex enterprise-system implementations, integrations, and modernization initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, vendors, data platforms, and business processes.
Lead technology strategy and business-process improvement.
Manage projects, portfolios, and priorities, including multiple concurrent projects.
Manage vendors and contracts.
Oversee data access control, reporting, analysis, and decision support.
Support leadership, mentorship, and talent development.
Collaborate, communicate, and enable change.