About Communities Foundation of Texas
The mission of Communities Foundation of Texas (CFT) is to improve the lives of all people in our community by investing in their health, wealth, living, and learning. CFT works to accomplish this by growing community giving, expanding community impact, and advancing community equity. With a vision of building thriving communities for all, CFT works locally and across the state with many individuals, families, companies, foundations, and nonprofits through a variety of charitable funds and strategic grantmaking initiatives. CFT professionally manages more than 1,300 charitable funds and has awarded more than $2.5 billion in grants since its founding in 1953.
CFT is committed to serving and understanding donor needs, expertly handling complex gifts, wisely managing charitable funds, and leveraging its community knowledge to increase charitable impact, in addition to powering several initiatives including the W. W. Caruth, Jr. Fund at CFT, the Center for Business Impact, Educate Texas at CFT, Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy at CFT, GiveWisely, and CFT’s North Texas Giving Day. CFT’s North Texas Giving Day raised $64 million on a single day in 2023 to help over 3,250 North Texas nonprofits. Learn more at CFTexas.org.
Summary
The Chief Information Officer (CIO) leads CFT’s ongoing commitment to support and promote the strategic use of information technology to advance the overall missions of the organization. Reporting to the CEO, the CIO develops, plans, implements, and manages an information technology (“IT”) strategy that meets the foundation’s needs, delivers optimal return on investment, and maintains utmost security. This includes networking and infrastructure, operational technology, core application technology, cybersecurity, and end-user support. The successful candidate will anticipate future technology needs, recommending priorities, strategic investments, and considerations to CFT leadership and the Board of Directors.
Key Responsibilities
Manage Applications Portfolio Strategy
- Establishes standards, and ensures application performance at or above expectations
- Effectively manages the integration of software and systems in support of achieving organizational objectives
- Ensure the cost-effective and timely management of enterprise resource planning (“ERP”) and customer relationship management (“CRM”) applications.
- Driving a culture of continuous improvement, leveraging partners and external best practices to optimize internal system functionality
- Demonstrated ability using a life cycle management process for implementation of changes in technology
Evaluate & Manage Systems Risk and Cyber Security
- Develops and executes a comprehensive cyber security strategy
- Stay abreast of emerging threats, proactively identifies areas of associated risk, and works with managed services providers to mitigate them
Qualifications / Skills / Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, computer science, IT, or related area
- 15 or more years of relevant experience required
- Experience as a technology executive, withdemonstrated success in managing IT system functionality within varying business environments required
- Salesforce and NetSuite platform-based leadership needed
- Previous experience at the CIO-level is preferred, but not
- Proven proficiency to lead via influence and effectively facilitate change
- Proven ability to effectively manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to relate to all levels of the user community and executive management, operate as a team player, set and manage priorities, translate complex technical issues into common language, sell solutions and gain alignment, link and apply technologies to business strategies, and lead projects to success.
- Effectively model and demonstrate CFT’s leadership competencies which include Leadership, People Management, Developing and Retaining Talent, and Team Building.
Disclaimer: The above sections contain representative examples of job duties that might be performed by employees assigned to this classification. CFT is a dynamic organization, and the environment can be fluid. Roles and responsibilities may be altered to accommodate changing conditions and objectives as well as to tap into the skills and experience of its employees.Accordingly, employees may be asked to perform duties that are outside the specific work that is listed. This is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and/or skills required of all employees within this class.
Accommodations: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position
