Executive Assistant to the CIO

Denison University • Granville, OH

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About The Position

Overview: The Executive Assistant to the Vice President & Chief Information Officer (CIO) is a trusted partner who enables high-impact leadership across Information Technology Services (ITS) and the university. This role manages the CIO’s time, priorities, and communications, ensuring focus on the most important institutional and strategic work. The Executive Assistant coordinates meetings, prepares materials, and ensures interactions are purposeful, well-structured, and outcome-oriented, while tracking key priorities and deadlines to maintain momentum. By anticipating needs, triaging requests, and removing operational friction, this role allows the CIO to remain focused on strategy, relationships, and leadership. The Executive Assistant also contributes to a well-informed, connected, and engaged ITS team culture. Essential Functions: Manage and prioritize the CIO’s calendar and commitments, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and protecting time for focused, high-impact work. Review and route communications and requests, responding to where appropriate and elevating critical issues to enable timely, informed decision-making. Track strategic priorities, action items, and deadlines, ensuring consistent follow-through and accountability across initiatives. Coordinate meetings and engagements, ensuring clear agendas, defined outcomes, and strong preparation to maximize effectiveness and results. Anticipate needs and remove operational friction, proactively improving workflows and enabling the CIO to remain focused on leadership, strategy, and relationships. Support coordination and communication across ITS and campus partners, ensuring alignment, clarity, and a well-informed, engaged, and high-performing team environment. Other duties as assigned. Denison University is an independent, coeducational, residential college of liberal arts and sciences. Founded in 1831, Denison is one of the earliest colleges to be established in the old "Northwest Territory," west of the Allegheny Mountains and north of the Ohio River. Denison University is a leading liberal arts college where faculty and students collaborate in research, civic engagement, & cultivation of independent thinking. As a leader among the nation's top residential liberal arts colleges, Denison has earned a reputation for academic rigor that is rivaled only by its commitment to preparing students for a lifetime of personal, professional and civic success. Denison is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. Title IX Notice: Sex discrimination is prohibited by federal law through Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Denison does not discriminate on the basis of sex in the education programs or activities that it operates including admissions and employment. For Denison’s official Notice of Non-Discrimination, please visit https://denison.edu/forms/non-discrimination-notice. You can learn more about Title IX at Denison at https://denison.edu/campus/title-ix. Job seekers who may need a reasonable accommodation to complete the application process should contact the Office of Human Resources at [phone] or by email at [email protected].

Responsibilities

• Manage and prioritize the CIO’s calendar and commitments, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and protecting time for focused, high-impact work.
• Review and route communications and requests, responding to where appropriate and elevating critical issues to enable timely, informed decision-making.
• Track strategic priorities, action items, and deadlines, ensuring consistent follow-through and accountability across initiatives.
• Coordinate meetings and engagements, ensuring clear agendas, defined outcomes, and strong preparation to maximize effectiveness and results.
• Anticipate needs and remove operational friction, proactively improving workflows and enabling the CIO to remain focused on leadership, strategy, and relationships.
• Support coordination and communication across ITS and campus partners, ensuring alignment, clarity, and a well-informed, engaged, and high-performing team environment.
• Other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees