About the Role
Join a collaborative team where your leadership will enhance the digital experience for thousands of students, faculty, and staff while driving innovation and service excellence across the College. This role provides operational leadership and tactical oversight for end-user technology services, ensuring the delivery of reliable, customer-centric support across the College. It oversees the IT Service Desk, Academic Computing, and Regional Campus IT support teams, championing a culture of continuous improvement and service excellence.
Responsibilities
- Provides leadership and operational oversight for the IT Service Desk, Academic Computing Labs and Regional Campus IT support functions; ensuring service continuity, responsiveness, and alignment with daily departmental objectives
- Leads, motivates, and guides staff, cultivating a collaborative, high-productivity team culture focused on excellent customer service
- Ensures operational assignments of the team are carried out consistently with college policies and procedures
- Monitors employee performance, delivers regular feedback, and resolves conflicts or conduct-related issues in accordance with college policies and standards
- Plans and manages resource allocation, staffing priorities, training needs, and workflow optimization to maintain seamless operations
- Coordinates operational planning for lab and support environments, including service processes, incident and escalation practices, software deployment readiness, technology refresh activities, and regional campus coverage
- Defines, implements, and matures IT service management practices and workflows (e.g., incident, request, problem, change) to improve service quality, consistency, and transparency
- Serves as the business owner for the ticketing/IT service management platform and continuously evolves the IT service catalogue to ensure services are clearly defined, measurable, and aligned with stakeholder needs and institutional priorities
- Assists departmental financial administration, including procurement coordination, expenditure tracking, budget monitoring, contributing data for resource planning, financial reporting, and prepares documentation
- Leads engagement with academic and administrative stakeholders to understand service needs and communicate service performance
- Establishes, monitors, and leverages service metrics and KPIs to drive continuous user-experience improvements
- Ensures compliance with college policies, health and safety standards, and asset/inventory controls
- Maintains service documentation and contributes to operational reporting
- Performs other related duties as assigned
Requirements
- Post-secondary 3-year diploma/degree in information technology, computer science, business technology management, or a related field
- Minimum 7 years’ of progressive experience in IT operations, end-user support, or technical service delivery
- An equivalent combination of education and progressive technical/operational leadership experience may be considered
- Demonstrated experience in staff management, operational planning, service escalation, stakeholder relationship management, and financial/procurement support activities
- Experience managing IT support across distributed environments (ideally a college/university campus, hospital, or multi-office corporate environment)
- Proven success in establishing KPIs, building service dashboards, and translating data into actionable service improvements
- Relevant IT service management, technical support, or leadership-related certifications are assets (example ITIL, change management, or project management)
- Requires strong leadership and employee relations skills; customer service and conflict resolution capability; knowledge of IT support operations, service desk practices, endpoint and lab support environments, and distributed support models; financial and procurement administration skills; strong written and verbal communication; data analysis and reporting; and proficiency with common enterprise systems (e.g. Microsoft 365 tools)
- A valid driver’s license and ability to travel between campuses is required
- Transcripts are mandatory as a condition of employment
Skills
- IT service management
- Change management
- Project management
- Leadership
- Employee relations
- Customer service
- Conflict resolution
- IT support operations
- Service desk practices
- Endpoint support
- Lab support
- Distributed support models
- Financial administration
- Procurement administration
- Data analysis
- Reporting
- Microsoft 365 tools
Location
- London, ON
Work Type
- Full time
- In-Person
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum 7 years’ of progressive experience in IT operations, end-user support, or technical service delivery
Education Level
- Post-secondary 3-year diploma/degree in information technology, computer science, business technology management, or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $91,902.00 - $131,070.00
Benefits
- Defined-benefit pension plan (through the CAAT Pension Plan)
- Dental coverage
- Disability coverage
- Travel insurance
- Extended health coverage
- Paid time off
- Scheduled holiday closure
- Tuition reduction for eligible employees and dependents
- Professional development opportunities
About the Company
- Fanshawe College thrives because of its people. We foster a culture of excellence and see opportunities to turn potential into impact. Leading with empathy, belonging, unity, learning and courage, we guide the learning journey of our students, ensuring they are ready for work and life, today and tomorrow.
- Fanshawe College is committed to the principles of hybrid work and may offer this option to employees whose work can be performed in an alternate location, without adverse impact to the operations of the College, inclusive of our Student and Staff experience.
- Confirmation of hybrid work options available to you will be clarified upon hire and may be subject to change based on the duties required of your position.
- Successful candidates will be required to perform work within Ontario and must be available to work on campus, as required.
- Fanshawe College uses Workday to manage recruitment and hiring processes.
- Fanshawe College provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process.
- Fanshawe College would like to acknowledge and honour the Anishinaabe, Lotinuhsyuní and Lenape people of southwestern Ontario as the traditional owners and custodians of the lands and waterways where Fanshawe College is located.
Equal Opportunity
- Fanshawe College is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equity, value diversity, and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds.
- Fanshawe College provides accommodations to job applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process. If a job applicant requires an accommodation during the application process or through the selection process, the hiring manager and the recruiter leading the recruitment will work with the applicant to meet the job applicant’s accommodation needs. Accommodation requests per the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act can be emailed to: askhr@fanshawe.ca
