Careers
Who we are
The Office of the CIO provides strategic leadership and coordination of the university’s IT efforts, ensuring that technology investments, services, and policies align with institutional priorities. It works collaboratively with campus units to advance secure, effective, and innovative technology solutions that support the university’s missions of teaching, research, and public engagement.
Technology Services provides campuswide technology solutions that support the teaching, learning and research missions of the university. We partner with other departmental IT staff to serve nearly 70,000 faculty, staff, and students.
Current job openings
This position closes on 10/16/2026.
Strategic Initiatives Communicator
Join the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in a strategic communications role with the opportunity to shape how significant technology initiatives are understood, experienced, and adopted across campus. You’ll partner with leaders and teams on high-impact efforts such as cybersecurity, digital accessibility, generative AI and other priorities that affect students, faculty throughout the university. We’re seeking a collaborative, creative, and forward-thinking communicator who can translate complex topics into compelling, audience-centered communications and provide strategic guidance from early planning throughout implementation. The ideal candidate brings exceptional writing and planning skills, sound judgment, curiosity, adaptability, and a desire to make a meaningful impact at one of the nation’s leading public research universities.
Hybrid work options may be available for this position, with the ability to be on-site at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus as needed per the University’s Workplace Flexibility policy. This position is not eligible for any type of sponsorship for work authorization.
The budgeted salary range for the position is $65,000 to $75,000. Salary is commensurate with experience.
This position is intended to be eligible for benefits. This includes Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, a Retirement Plan, Paid time Off, and Tuition waivers for employees and dependents.
Why work here
We are dedicated to becoming the premier place to work at the University of Illinois. We invest in our staff to enable them to do their best work and prepare for inevitable changes in the technology landscape. We encourage and provide opportunities for continuous learning and development.
Career development
We dedicate time and resources to your career development by helping you advance skills in support of our services and actively working with you to align your interests and experiences with opportunities.
Remote work options
We are an advocate for remote work and flex-time/telecommuting to provide flexibility and balance to our staff.
Exploration and experimentation
Staff spend up to 10% of their time working with other groups in the organization to learn, grow and gain expertise in different areas.
Leadership development
Develop your leadership skills through campus programs such as Manager Development, IT Leadership Workshop, Lunch and Learn sessions and HR Training Series.
Mentorship program
We pair members of our Leadership team with staff to develop skills through a series of time-limited, confidential one-on-one conversations and other learning activities.
Peer coaching
Work together with other Technology Services staff to reflect on current practices, expand, refine and build new skills, share ideas, conduct classroom research or solve problems in the workplace.
Recognition
Our Employee Award and Recognition Program is a peer-nominated initiative that rewards individuals and teams who achieve performance excellence by supporting the Technology Services mission, vision and values with monetary awards.
Commitment to DEI
In alignment with our mission to foster a supportive environment for all members our university community, positions are open to all eligible persons regardless of race, color or national origin.