About
Hartman Executive Advisors was founded with the vision of providing business-focused, vendor-independent consulting to mid-sized companies. As independent, trusted strategic advisors to our clients, Hartman’s mission is to create meaningful business outcomes that foster growth, greater financial returns and market dominance. By developing a deep understanding of the business challenges arising from poorly aligned technology and uncovering the transformational opportunities that result from strategically aligned technology, we set the path to advance, cultivate and leverage people, processes and systems to change and transform organizations. At Hartman, we deliver powerful business outcomes by leveraging technology strategy as a game-changer for our clients.

Summary
The Interim Director of IT will collaborate with executive leaders and department heads as a strategic partner to provide in-depth technical expertise to support business decisions and IT initiatives. The Interim Director of IT will lead the day-to-day IT operations and project delivery and is responsible for driving implementation of best practices for optimizing infrastructure and operation costs.

Essential Functions

Develop and operationalize Information Technology strategies; Recommend short- and long-term IT goals and objectives aligned to strategic priorities to executive leadership.
Provide strategic advice to key leaders and division/department heads on all technology matters
Ensure a focus on business alignment within the IT function, be accountable for outcomes, and continuous improvement; Drive change and innovation while balancing business, infrastructure, and technology needs.
Help mitigate risks in business continuity and cyber security.
Ensure key business strategies and processes are supported by technology systems that enable growth and flexibility.
Provide leadership and guidance to IT department to achieve secure, reliable, and cost-effective operations of IT infrastructure and applications.
Seek and evaluate emerging technologies and educate stakeholders on the potential for new technologies to deliver return on investment by enabling business innovation, efficiency, and competitive advantage.
Lead and mentor a team of IT professionals, leading them to meet or exceed expectations for productivity, quality, and achievement.
Oversee and manage capital projects to ensure target dates and budget expectations are met.
Ensure service-level requirements are met while upholding all governance standards.

Qualifications

8+ years of relevant work experience with most recent experience consisting of leading an organizations IT operations, systems and teams.
Ability to translate complex technical terminology, concepts, and issues in terms understandable to technical and non-technical team members as well as executive level audiences
Strong interpersonal skills to resolve problems in a professional manner as well as participate in working groups
Ability to handle multiple priorities as well as establish and meet deadlines
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability as well as willingness to create documentation of activities, processes and procedures
Maintains a customer service mindset both to internal staff and stakeholders

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field

Job Type

Contractor/1099 – Approximately 20 hours/week

This is a hybrid remote opportunity that will require occasional on-site work in Bedford County, VA