Deputy CIO, Academic and Research Technology - Information Solutions

Job Description Summary

The Deputy Chief Information Officer, Academic and Research Technologies, is a pivotal executive leadership role within MUSC’s Enterprise Information Solutions organization. This leader is accountable for the technology strategy, systems, and services that advance MUSC’s academic, clinical, and research missions, with direct oversight over two of the three pillars of the institution’s tripartite purpose.

Entity

Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type​

Regular

Cost Center

CC002269 SYS - IS Senior Leaders

Pay Rate Type

Salary

Pay Grade

Health-00

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Work Shift

Job Description

About MUSC Health:

The Medical University of South Carolina is the state’s only academic medical center and one of the nation’s top research universities. MUSC Health encompasses more than 2,500 licensed beds across a growing statewide network, along with MUSC’s six colleges, a nationally recognized research enterprise, and graduate medical education programs that train the next generation of health professionals. MUSC’s tripartite mission, clinical care, research, and education, demands an information technology organization capable of enabling excellence across all three pillars simultaneously.

The Deputy Chief Information Officer, Academic and Research Technologies, is a pivotal executive leadership role within MUSC’s Enterprise Information Solutions organization. This leader is accountable for the technology strategy, systems, and services that advance MUSC’s academic, clinical, and research missions, with direct oversight over two of the three pillars of the institution’s tripartite purpose.

This executive serves as the primary bridge between Central Information Solutions (Central IS) and the academic enterprise, spanning the College of Medicine, College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, College of Dental Medicine, College of Health Professions, and College of Graduate Studies, as well as MUSC’s vibrant research community. The role partners closely with local IS teams embedded within schools and research programs, ensuring that enterprise architecture and infrastructure investments are appropriately extended and tailored to academic and research environments.

A core priority is the deployment, optimization, and lifecycle management of enterprise Student Information Systems (SIS), learning management platforms, and research enablement technologies. This leader will work at the intersection of academic operations and cutting-edge discovery, supporting MUSC’s signature Integrated Innovation Institutions (I3’s) strategic initiatives, facilitating clinical research infrastructure, and enabling the translation of discovery into care model redesign.

This is a role for a seasoned technology executive who brings equal command of the academic and research enterprise, someone who can champion the technology needs of students, faculty, and academic administrators with the same credibility and fluency they bring to supporting investigators, research programs, and the translational science agenda. MUSC requires a leader who sees these two missions not as separate portfolios, but as deeply interconnected dimensions of a single institutional purpose.

Scope and Reporting:

• •Reports to the Enterprise Chief Information Officer (CIO)
• •Direct Leadership - Academic Technology Applications, Student Information Systems, Research Informatics and Computing, Academic IS Coordination
• •Key Partners - College Deans and local IS teams, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Provost's Office, Central IS Architecture and Infrastructure, Office of Enrollment Management and Student Accounting
• •Mission Focus - Education and Research, two pillars of MUSC's tripartite mission
• •Travel - up to 20% across MUSC Hospitals, regional campuses, and statewide affiliates
• •Work Model - Hybrid - Charleston, SC (within MUSC policy)

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership and Vision for Academic and Research Technologies

Define and champion MUSC’s academic and research technology strategy with a 2–3 year roadmap across student information systems, research computing, learning technology, and academic-clinical integration, aligned with system-level strategies spanning the University, Health System, and statewide initiatives, including the I3 framework.

Lead academic and research technology governance with representation from school leadership, faculty, researchers, and students, and coordinate academic application roadmaps with Central IS enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, data and analytics, and digital strategy to create a coherent, platform-rationalized environment.

Ensure strategic alignment of academic technology investments with regulatory requirements (FERPA, HIPAA in research contexts, federal sponsor mandates) and industry standards (IMS Global, SCORM, LTI).

Student Information Systems, CRM, and Academic Application Portfolio

Oversee the deployment, optimization, and lifecycle management of MUSC’s Student Information System (SIS), including student records, enrollment, financial aid, advising, degree auditing, and institutional reporting, and drive SIS maturity through targeted process automation, self-service functionality, and integration with institutional and national reporting frameworks.

Establish integration strategies and oversee specialty academic systems across the portfolio, including Learning Management Systems, clinical education and GME platforms, curriculum management, simulation, testing and assessment, library systems, and faculty credentialing, in partnership the Office of Enrollment Management (which includes Registrar, Financial Aid, Admissions, and Data & Reporting), Academic Affairs, and Student Services offices to meet institutional, accreditor, and regulatory expectations. Academic Affairs, Student Accounting and Student Services offices to meet institutional, accreditor, and regulatory expectations.

Oversee current CRM interface and management, addressing the ongoing gap on the SIS side, and design a future roadmap with key stakeholders to support prospective student engagement and enrollment.

Research Enablement and Innovation

Provide strategic technology leadership for MUSC’s research enterprise across the full research lifecycle, from protocol development and IRB management through data collection, analysis, and publication, building an ecosystem that accelerates investigator productivity and supports NIH rankings and extramural funding goals.

Lead development and governance of research data infrastructure (research data warehouses, biorepository systems, REDCap, clinical trial management platforms) and advance research computing capabilities, including high-performance computing, cloud research environments, and secure data enclaves in partnership with the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, IRB, and research compliance, meeting federal grant and data security requirements.

Support translational research infrastructure that bridges bench science and clinical application, enabling investigators to leverage EHR data, genomics platforms, and population-level datasets for discovery.

MUSC Integrated Innovation Institutions (I3) Strategic Initiatives and Clinical Research Integration

Serve as the primary technology partner for MUSC’s I3 strategic initiatives, providing technology enablement, data infrastructure, and operational support for signature research programs, and enable clinical research into care model redesign through pragmatic trials, quality improvement studies, and learning health system activities.

Collaborate with MUSC’s CTSA program, cancer center, and other research enterprises to support multi-investigator, multi-site research, and advance precision medicine and genomics technology infrastructure in coordination with clinical informatics, biomedical informatics, and enterprise data platforms.

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