Vice President of Information Technology, Volunteer - Toronto, Canada - Canadian Pet Cancer Foundation

Description

Vice President, Information Technology, Volunteer

About the Pet Cancer Foundation

The Pet Cancer Foundation's vision is to increase the life expectancy and improve the quality of life of pets diagnosed with cancer.

Estimates suggest that 12M dogs and cats are developing cancer every year, roughly 6x the number of humans getting cancer yearly within North America.

We need to do more for our furry friends, and we're building a large team of distributed, animal-loving passionate volunteers to help them and their families.

Over the past 24 months, the organization has grown from the Founder's vision to a team of over 250 volunteers working virtually across Canada, the United States, and another half dozen countries worldwide.

As we work to become the leading organization in the field of animal cancer, we plan to more than double in size over the next 12 months.

To continue on this trajectory, we're in search of experienced senior-level technical delivery leadership as we set out to bring our technology needs to life.

That's where and how you can help us.


About the Position
The Vice President, IT leads the organizational efforts to ensure the availability and continuity of technology assets.

The VP is charged with providing the vision, oversight and execution of the information technology strategy for the entire organization, which includes management and maintenance of network infrastructure, technology platforms, help desk functions, data integrity, hardware and software resources, implementing new technology initiatives and developing and administering IT procedures & protocols that support PCF's long-term objectives and goals.

• Develop the technology vision for the PCF to meet current and anticipated business needs and ensure successful translation and adoption as a set of annual and longterm strategic priorities and operating plans
• Act as trusted advisor to PCF and transform PCF's vision and strategy into actionable IT technology roadmap to meet the strategic priorities
• Manage technology infrastructure including servers, databases, security, network and operations, develop appropriate information security policies, procedures, and guidelines, assess and manage security risk efforts and ensure sustained compliance with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements
• Ensure that project related IT systems and services are technically sound and have the functionality and scalability necessary to enable and accelerate the continued growth of PCF
• Lead and coach the IT team for effectiveness and promote culture of continuous learning and innovative solutions
• Develop effective working relationships with leadership team to enable discussion and reflection around the use of technology and ensure organization's compliance with standards and policies as well as readiness to leverage and adapt new developments and advances.

About You

You are passionate about technology to build a solid IT foundation ensuring availability of the right resources, processes and technologies, particularly in a volunteer context, and aim to support the achievement of the organization's objectives by developing plans, reporting progress on issues and skillfully facilitate issue resolution.

You are expert communicator bridging deltas between end users and the IT team, describing technical issues in lay terms and showing empathy and urgency in responding to users' issues.

Your leadership style radiates a positive attitude unveiling the strength of the team and combines technical competencies and customer service to achieve overall goals of the organization.

You have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Technology Management or relevant field (Master's degree would be considered a strong asset);
• 10+ years of technical experience with career progression and at least 5 years in a senior IT leadership role;
• Previous experience building technology infrastructure and leading technology projects for a growing organization;
• Experience with technology, databases, project management, business process reengineering techniques, information analysis and computer hardware/software systems;
• Proven success in crossfunctional collaboration at all levels within the organization;
• Strong ability to effectively articulate technical information to those outside the IT function;
• Effective management skills demonstrating team leadership, collaboration, individual initiative and professional growth;
• Strong interpersonal and organization skills, sound judgement including attention to detail and multitasking;
• Excellent communication skills in presenting, speaking and writing;
• A solid understanding of the elements that affect workplace culture (experience leading in a virtual/remote setting would be considered a strong asset).

What we provide you with
This leadership role is a generational opportunity to build a best-in-class worldwide organization that will make