Job No. 155691
- Job Title:
- Cascades Information Technology Manager
- Employer:
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Oregon State University (OSU)
- Location:
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Bend , OR
- Posting Date:
- 19-Jun-2025
- Description:
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Job Summary
The OSU-Cascades campus is seeking an Information Technology Manager. This is a full-time (1.00 FTE), 12-month, professional faculty position.
This position is located in Bend, Oregon.
The IT Manager for OSU-Cascades serves as the operational liaison between the OSU-Cascades campus and UIT. This position is responsible for aligning local IT services with university-wide technology standards while ensuring they meet the unique instructional, research, administrative, and growth-related needs of OSU-Cascades.
The IT Manager provides leadership in planning, implementing, and managing campus-specific IT operations, infrastructure, and customer support services. This includes overseeing daily IT operations, coordinating support for faculty, staff, and students, and ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality technical solutions. The manager plays a key consultative role, offering guidance on technology integration, innovation, and continuous improvement in service delivery.
In close partnership with the UIT Service Desk, central IT teams, and campus stakeholders, the IT Manager leads the OSU-Cascades IT team, manages staff performance, and ensures efficient use of resources to support campus priorities. This role is critical in supporting the university’s teaching, research, and institutional growth mission.
This position reports to the Director of the UIT Service Desk, with a dotted line to the Chief Business Officer at Cascades, and works collaboratively with both campus and central IT leadership.
As a member of the OSU IT community, this position contributes to the collective mission of supporting Oregon State University’s teaching, research, outreach, and administrative excellence through technology. Under the leadership of University Information & Technology (UIT), the university’s central IT organization, the OSU IT community is a collaborative ecosystem made up of distributed IT professionals embedded within colleges, research, and administrative units.
Together, OSU IT professionals work in partnership to align technology solutions, share expertise, and deliver secure, effective, and innovative digital experiences that enable the university’s strategic goals. As part of this community, this position plays a key role in advancing OSU’s technology priorities while supporting the unique needs of OSU-Cascades.
Please note all OSU IT team members are expected to meet the following commitments:
AI Statement: OSU IT embraces the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to drive innovation, enhance efficiency, and create meaningful impact across our teaching, research, and administrative functions. As a member of the OSU IT community, the person in this position is expected to thoughtfully engage with AI tools and practices, champion their ethical and responsible use, and actively contribute to the development of AI-driven solutions that uphold our institutional values and advance the university’s mission.
Data Statement: OSU IT commits to deliver data as a strategic working asset and to enable data informed decision making across OSU. OSU IT leaders and staff lead by example and use data to inform decision making at all levels in the organization. Persons in technology roles are also expected to design systems with data portability in mind and work within enterprise architecture and privacy guidelines.
DEIA Statement: OSU IT commits to and believes in the strength and value of diversity, equity, inclusion, and access (DEIA) both throughout our team and as an intentional and active practice to advance the vision, mission, and strategic efforts of the entire university. As a member of the OSU IT community, the person in this position is expected to foster and promote the values of DEIA and demonstrate a commitment to inclusive excellence in their work.
Security Statement: Proactively securing and protecting OSU’s digital assets and information systems is crucial to our missions of teaching and learning, research, and extension and engagement. All OSU IT professionals are directly responsible for providing high quality and secure IT systems and services. Persons in technology roles are expected to be responsive to security related actions and requirements, and to collaborate to find secure ways to support the OSU community.
Why OSU?
Why OSU-Cascades?
Founded in 2001, Oregon State University – Cascades brings higher education to Central Oregon while leveraging the excellence of a land grant and top-tier research university in one of the most dynamic cities in the Pacific Northwest.
Located near downtown Bend and surrounded by mountains, forest and high desert, OSU-Cascades offers small classes that accelerate faculty-student mentoring and experiential learning in an innovative environment that accelerates opportunities for student, faculty and staff development and advancement.
With a 128-acre campus under development and a goal to grow to 3,000 to 5,000 undergraduate and graduate students, OSU-Cascades is delivering on a 40-year grassroots community effort to bring the benefits of a comprehensive university to the region:
Student Body and Alumni
Student and alumni data is as of fall 2024.
• 1,370 undergraduate and graduate students
• 78% from Oregon
• 42% Central Oregonians
• 24% first generation students
• 23% students of color
• 19 students on average per class
• 95% of 2023 graduates employed or in graduate school within 6 months of graduation
• 5,625 degrees awarded since founding
Academic Majors
A growing portfolio of degree programs at OSU-Cascades is designed to meet regional and state industry workforce and economic needs.
Research
Research underway at OSU-Cascades focuses on challenges in energy, the environment, human wellness, social justice and society. Labs at OSU-Cascades include the FORCE biomechanics lab, the Laboratory for the American Conversation and the Sustainable Tourism Laboratory.
Campus Development
OSU-Cascades’ campus development is driven by an award-winning long range development plan and engineering efforts that are transforming brownfields into a thriving university campus. Sustainability plans include net zero energy, waste and water goals. Initial sustainability efforts are seen in geothermal sourced energy to heat and cool buildings, and native plant landscaping requiring little or no irrigation. In addition to an academic core, campus plans includes a 24-acre innovation district, mid-market affordable housing, and 10-miles of walking/biking trails.
Working for Oregon State University is so much more than a job!
Oregon State University is a dynamic community of dreamers, doers, problem-solvers and change-makers. We don’t wait for challenges to present themselves — we seek them out and take them on. We welcome students, faculty and staff from every background and perspective into a community where everyone feels seen and heard. We have deep-rooted mindfulness for the natural world and all who depend on it, and together, we apply knowledge, tools and skills to build a better future for all.
FACTS:
• Top 1.4% university in the world
• More research funding than all public universities in Oregon combined
• 1 of 3 land, sea, space and sun grant universities in the U.S.
• 2 campuses, 11 colleges, 12 experiment stations, and Extension programs in all 36 counties
• 7 cultural resource centers that offer education, celebration and belonging for everyone
• 100+ undergraduate degree programs, 80+ graduate degrees plus hundreds of minor options and certificates
• 35k+ students including more than 2.3k international students and 10k students of color
• 217k+ alumni worldwide
• For more interesting facts about OSU visit: https://oregonstate.edu/about
- Contact information:
- Oregon State University (OSU)
- Bend, OR 97331
- United States
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