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Office of the CIO

The Office of the CIO is responsible for integrating and coordinating internal governing processes and a university IT governance framework that includes, but is not limited to, the CIO Council, the Faculty Senate Committee on Academic Computing and Information Systems (C-ACIS), annual allocation of the Enterprise Systems Fund, UIT Leadership Team, and more.

The Office of the CIO, under the direction of the Chief of Staff, brings together the teams responsible for defining, developing, and delivering CIO-identified strategic initiatives. This includes the project management office (PMO), UIT Communications, Organizational Effectiveness (including talent development and leadership programs and workforce development initiatives), and the UIT Administrative Team. The University IT Human Resources Team also works within the OCIO, in partnership with Business Affairs HR.

Together with the University IT Leadership Team, the Office of the CIO sets the overall strategy for the organization and promotes consistency of practices and shared processes. In addition, the OCIO helps unify the IT community at Stanford through shared information and resources. This includes developing campus-wide IT planning and strategy, and cultivating IT partnerships to enable the IT community at Stanford to engage and collaborate more effectively. 

University IT Communications

The UIT Communications Team delivers strategic communications and change management campaigns, and align messaging across UIT’s seven units to convey information on behalf of the University CIO and his leadership team. 

The team creates and executes strategic communications plans (including deliverables such as articles, web, infographics, photo, video) to inform and engage the Stanford community about UIT’s projects, services, changes, and other news and updates. In particular, the team works with subject matter experts across UIT and Stanford to deliver strategic communications and change management campaigns to support: 

  • UIT services and priorities

  • Distributed IT community engagement programs and events

  • UIT (internal) staff and culture-related engagement activities and events

  • Optimize the accessibility and features of our three website properties (UIT, IT Community, and UIT Community)

Administrative Team

The UIT Administrative Team provides administrative support to University IT organizations. The team ensures that staff, spread across the main and Stanford Redwood City campus, receive the efficient, friendly, and high-quality services they need to support the university’s research, teaching, learning, and healthcare mission. The team serves as executive assistants for senior leadership, responds to staff requests, processes orders and financial transactions, helps onboard new staff, and provides event planning and logistics.

Organizational Effectiveness

Organizational Effectiveness defines, facilitates, supports, and documents a comprehensive organizational strategy to support the growth and development of University IT’s extraordinary employees. Talent strategies and approaches as outlined in the IT Connect + Grow programs, are aligned to organizational priorities and enable the delivery of business outcomes while providing support for career planning and talent development opportunities. The team provides, and when necessary administers, planning and assessment tools to enable managers to grow talent, improve work group operations, as well as to identify underlying systemic improvement opportunities.

Organizational Effectiveness supports our university-wide IT talent development programs such as Information Technology Leadership Program (ITLP) and Stanford Technical Leadership Program (STLP), the recently launched program to connect alumni of these programs and more.

University IT Human Resources, in conjunction with Business Affairs HR

This active partnership supports University IT’s goal to recruit, retain, and develop extraordinary people. The commitment is to support the employee experience, starting with the onboarding process and lasting through the lifecycle of employment. The outcomes focus on using common performance management practices and providing guidance on approaches to recruit, grow, assess, develop, and retain employees.

University IT Project Management Office

The University IT PMO drives toward an improved Project Portfolio Management process, enabling us to properly prioritize client and UIT project-related activities while optimizing human and financial resources, minimizing technical debt, and enabling other UIT priorities (for example, innovating with purpose).

Through Service Portfolio Management and Project Portfolio Management we provide the visibility and transparency necessary to view and understand the current and future states of UIT products and services.