Director, Information and Learning Technology

**Date Posted**:08/15/2025
**Req ID**:44823
**Faculty/Division**: Faculty of Music
**Department**: Faculty of Music
**Campus**: St. George (Downtown Toronto)

**Description**:
**About Us**:
The Faculty of Music is Canada's largest and most renowned university-based music program for professional musical training, creation, performance, education, and research. Home to a diverse and dynamic community of scholars, performers, composers, and educators, the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music offers a supportive community in one of the world’s most diverse and dynamic cities.

We provide a superb learning environment, an internationally renowned teaching faculty, multiple performance halls, and an outstanding music library collection. With degrees and diplomas available in numerous areas of study, our array of courses and programs provides our 900 students an exceptional opportunity to explore various fields within music. With over 600 concerts and events annually, the Faculty is an exciting and vibrant place to work, study, and visit.

Our faculty members include musicians who perform on the world’s most prestigious stages and record for major labels, scholars who present at leading international conferences and publish with top presses, educators who offer workshops and masterclasses at universities and conservatories worldwide, and composers whose works are performed by renowned ensembles and commissioned by acclaimed musicians and arts organizations. Visit music.utoronto.ca to read profiles of our outstanding faculty members - nearly sixty full-time and one hundred part-time - models and mentors to support a broad range of music-related careers.

**Position Summary**:
Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO), the Director, Information and Learning Technology (ILT) provides strong strategic and innovative leadership to build cohesive, collaborative and coordinated information technology systems and services in support of the Faculty’s academic (teaching, learning and research), student and administrative operations.

The Director will build and lead a team; manage annual budgets; define metrics based on the Faculty’s overall strategic objectives, ensure the integrity, reliability, security, and performance of information systems. The Director will be the primary point of accountability for the effectiveness and efficiency of Technology Solutions for the Faculty. The Director will represent the Faculty on the University’s Information and Technology Services (I+TS) committees and projects and maintain close communication with the University’s Chief Information Officer’s (CIO) office.

The Director will plan, implement, and sustain a comprehensive information and technology environment. The incumbent will provide creative, thought leadership and strategic direction, design, development, sustainment in the areas of technology service, including instructional design, information and learning technologies, web, classroom media, and audio-visual services for students, staff, faculty, and visitors. The incumbent is responsible for the development and implementation of short-term and long-term technology strategies across the portfolio, management of Faculty administrative information systems and of the Faculty’s use of University administrative information systems, and full management of related staff and resources.

The incumbent will ensure that the Faculty’s Technology Services (e.g. IT and learning systems) follow Faculty, University and Government policies, procedures and legislation from a risk management, security, and compliance perspective. The Director will lead the development and execution of an information security plan that protects the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Faculty’s data and servers; articulate in lay terms the Faculty IT architecture to establish IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures; and adjusts IT standards and technologies to meet an ever
- evolving technological landscape.

The Director consults regularly with the faculty, both individually and with departments and programs, to discuss their use of technology in teaching and research, ascertain their needs, and propose and implement innovative solutions, training, and support. This position actively participates in the life of the institution to understand faculty technical needs and advocate for infrastructure to support those needs. The Director works collaboratively with the Library, Recording and Performance Technology Services, the Office of Student Services, the technical teams in the Faculty’s performance halls, and others in support of academic excellence across the curriculum.

The Director builds strong relationships with faculty and administration and navigates budgetary and staffing challenges to provide creative solutions.

**Minimum Qualifications**

**EDUCATION**:

- University degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or acceptable combination of education