What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Director position at Group family of brands?
THIS ROLE IS DENVER BASED
ABOUT GLOBUS FAMILY OF BRANDS
With 95 years in travel, the award-winning Globus family of brands – consisting of Globus, Cosmos, and Avalon Waterways – creates vacations that offer travelers culture-rich experiences featuring must-see sights, the stories behind the scenes and countless joy-filled memories in more than 70 countries on six continents across the globe. With equal measures vision and hard work; team collaboration and commitment; adaptability, honesty, and integrity as well as a genuine love for all-things-travel, the Globus family of brands – a leader in international travel – now offers unparalleled, perfectly planned tours; inventive, inspiring cruises and modern, independent vacation packages to millions of travelers.
Travel and / or in-office presence may be required at times. Generous benefit package including travel benefits and retirement.
THE DEPARTMENT
The following teams make up the Technology department : Business Analysis and Quality Assurance, Applications Development, Applications Support, and Engineering. The group identifies and develops technological strategies that support GVI’s business goals and objectives to ensure internal and external partners are provided with stable systems. These include : all desktop, network, phone and email systems, applications (reservations and operations systems), websites, and Internet access.
THE ROLE OF A DIRECTOR
The director supervises and leads a group of managers and associates in a particular area of an organization. Directors help set where and when; guiding others on what and why. Directors are responsible for the ‘how’ in implementation.
Job responsibilities of a director include :
- Direct management or direct reports in deployment of company strategy, goals & mission
- Evaluating associates periodically for promotions and career opportunities, approving ratings
- Supervising managers during certain projects
- Developing and implementing policies for executives to review
- Reporting to senior-level leadership such as a Senior Director or VP
- Planning, directing and coordinating department strategic efforts and day-to-day processes, including assigning tasks and giving direction to subordinates
- Understanding and creating department budgets for upper management
- Evaluating and developing strategies and plans for departmental success
- Ensuring a healthy work environment and lead the culture for their associates and managers
- May interact with global offices
- Approve hiring and termination requests
- Collaborating with other business leaders and teams on cross functional strategic projects and developing departmental plans that support such projects
- Project management of the various projects within their department
- Relationship point of contact for vendors and other external stakeholders that impact their departments
- Synthesizes data and information to make recommendations to upper management on strategic or high-value initiatives
- Accountable for achievement of team / department’s goals
- Partners with senior management on broader departments people and succession strategy
THE POSITION / ROLE
The IT Director is responsible for the following essential job duties and responsibilities :
EDUCATION
BSc / BA in computer science, engineering or relevant field; MSc / MA will be a plus or extensive (10 or more years) IT management experience may be substituted for a degree.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
While performing this job, it will require : Eight (8) hours or more a day of sitting; walking; standing; bending; answering the telephone; entering data into the computer; retrieving data from the computer or analyzing data from reports.
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