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Information Technology Associate jobs with green card sponsorship require employers to complete PERM labor certification with the DOL before filing an I-140 petition with USCIS. EB-2 and EB-3 pathways both apply depending on your degree and experience, and per-country backlogs mean priority dates matter from day one.
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The Kansas State University Foundation (KSU Foundation) is partnering with Wendy Wilsker and Paul Dennis from Boyden Executive Search in the recruitment of the Associate Vice President of Information Technology. For more information and to review the job description, please click here. Please direct all applications, inquiries, and nominations to Paul Dennis, Executive Search Consultant, at pdennis@boyden.com.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation: $190,000 - $210,000 annually
Regular, Full-Time, Exempt
LOCATION
Location: Manhattan, KS (onsite only)
OUR PROMISE TO YOU
- Competitive health, dental, life insurance, plus voluntary benefits including company paid HSA contributions
- 403(b) retirement plan with 10% company contribution
- Paid leave for holidays, vacation, wellness, personal, parental, and volunteer
- Tuition and certification assistance and a $300 annual reimbursement wellness program
- A work environment that embraces flexibility inside of a framework
- Mission-driven work that changes the lives of people around the world
- View more benefits on our website or click here!
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Technology is critical to advancing organizational impact. As the Associate Vice President of Information Technology, you will provide strategic leadership for the organization's technology function, ensuring technology investments, services, and capabilities support organizational priorities and long-term success. This position collaborates with leaders across the organization to identify opportunities, strengthen operations, and ensure technology delivers measurable organizational value. The AVP helps the organization leverage technology to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and decision-making while ensuring technology resources remain secure, reliable, scalable, and financially responsible.
What You'll Do:
- Direct technology strategy, operations, infrastructure, and service delivery to ensure technology services are secure, reliable, cost-effective, and aligned with organizational needs.
- Lead cybersecurity, privacy, and technology risk management programs to protect organizational information assets and ensure resilient, compliant technology operations through effective governance, security controls, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
- Oversee the governance, prioritization, and execution of the technology project portfolio, aligning initiatives with organizational priorities, managing resources and risks, and driving successful implementation and adoption.
- Advance data governance, data quality, integrations, analytics, and reporting capabilities to ensure accurate, secure, and reliable information that supports decision-making, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
- Drive process improvement and automation initiatives by redesigning workflows and leveraging technology solutions that improve efficiency, scalability, user adoption, and organizational performance.
- Lead the organization’s artificial intelligence strategy and digital readiness efforts, establishing governance, evaluating emerging technologies, identifying practical use cases, and driving the responsible adoption of AI-enabled solutions that enhance organizational effectiveness, innovation, and decision-making.
- Manage technology vendor relationships, contracts, licensing, renewals, and service agreements to ensure technology investments are cost-effective, contractually compliant, secure, well-supported, and aligned with organizational objectives.
- Manage the technology team, including recruitment, performance management, and coaching. Responsible for fostering a positive, high-performing team culture by setting clear expectations, providing meaningful feedback, and supporting individual and team success.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or a related field
- 10+ years of enterprise technology experience spanning strategy, cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise systems, data management, automation, and vendor management
- 8+ years of leadership experience managing individual contributors and leaders of people, with a demonstrated ability to inspire teams while providing and receiving feedback
- Demonstrated success leading complex technology initiatives and organizational change
- Ability to communicate technical, financial, contractual, and risk considerations to diverse stakeholders
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PMP certification
- Experience with Microsoft technologies, Salesforce or similar CRM platforms, and cloud-based systems
- Experience establishing governance frameworks, service management programs, technology adoption strategies, or AI capabilities
- Experience in higher education, nonprofit, fundraising, donor management, or other relationship-driven environments
If you are a forward-thinking technology executive who enjoys building strong partnerships, leading through change, and using technology to create organizational impact, we encourage you to apply!
INTRODUCTION
The Kansas State University Foundation (KSU Foundation) is partnering with Wendy Wilsker and Paul Dennis from Boyden Executive Search in the recruitment of the Associate Vice President of Information Technology. For more information and to review the job description, please click here. Please direct all applications, inquiries, and nominations to Paul Dennis, Executive Search Consultant, at pdennis@boyden.com.
COMPENSATION
- Compensation: $190,000 - $210,000 annually
Regular, Full-Time, Exempt
LOCATION
Location: Manhattan, KS (onsite only)
OUR PROMISE TO YOU
- Competitive health, dental, life insurance, plus voluntary benefits including company paid HSA contributions
- 403(b) retirement plan with 10% company contribution
- Paid leave for holidays, vacation, wellness, personal, parental, and volunteer
- Tuition and certification assistance and a $300 annual reimbursement wellness program
- A work environment that embraces flexibility inside of a framework
- Mission-driven work that changes the lives of people around the world
- View more benefits on our website or click here!
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Technology is critical to advancing organizational impact. As the Associate Vice President of Information Technology, you will provide strategic leadership for the organization's technology function, ensuring technology investments, services, and capabilities support organizational priorities and long-term success. This position collaborates with leaders across the organization to identify opportunities, strengthen operations, and ensure technology delivers measurable organizational value. The AVP helps the organization leverage technology to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and decision-making while ensuring technology resources remain secure, reliable, scalable, and financially responsible.
What You'll Do:
- Direct technology strategy, operations, infrastructure, and service delivery to ensure technology services are secure, reliable, cost-effective, and aligned with organizational needs.
- Lead cybersecurity, privacy, and technology risk management programs to protect organizational information assets and ensure resilient, compliant technology operations through effective governance, security controls, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
- Oversee the governance, prioritization, and execution of the technology project portfolio, aligning initiatives with organizational priorities, managing resources and risks, and driving successful implementation and adoption.
- Advance data governance, data quality, integrations, analytics, and reporting capabilities to ensure accurate, secure, and reliable information that supports decision-making, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
- Drive process improvement and automation initiatives by redesigning workflows and leveraging technology solutions that improve efficiency, scalability, user adoption, and organizational performance.
- Lead the organization’s artificial intelligence strategy and digital readiness efforts, establishing governance, evaluating emerging technologies, identifying practical use cases, and driving the responsible adoption of AI-enabled solutions that enhance organizational effectiveness, innovation, and decision-making.
- Manage technology vendor relationships, contracts, licensing, renewals, and service agreements to ensure technology investments are cost-effective, contractually compliant, secure, well-supported, and aligned with organizational objectives.
- Manage the technology team, including recruitment, performance management, and coaching. Responsible for fostering a positive, high-performing team culture by setting clear expectations, providing meaningful feedback, and supporting individual and team success.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or a related field
- 10+ years of enterprise technology experience spanning strategy, cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise systems, data management, automation, and vendor management
- 8+ years of leadership experience managing individual contributors and leaders of people, with a demonstrated ability to inspire teams while providing and receiving feedback
- Demonstrated success leading complex technology initiatives and organizational change
- Ability to communicate technical, financial, contractual, and risk considerations to diverse stakeholders
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PMP certification
- Experience with Microsoft technologies, Salesforce or similar CRM platforms, and cloud-based systems
- Experience establishing governance frameworks, service management programs, technology adoption strategies, or AI capabilities
- Experience in higher education, nonprofit, fundraising, donor management, or other relationship-driven environments
If you are a forward-thinking technology executive who enjoys building strong partnerships, leading through change, and using technology to create organizational impact, we encourage you to apply!
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Information Technology Associate
Match your credentials to the right EB category
EB-2 requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive IT experience. EB-3 covers a bachelor's degree alone or two or more years of skilled work. Confirm which category your profile supports before you apply, because your employer's PERM filing must reflect that classification accurately.
Use O*NET to anchor your job description
PERM requires a detailed job duties description that withstands DOL scrutiny. Pull the official task list for Information Technology Associate from O*NET, then align your offer letter and resume to those defined duties so the recruitment test reflects what USCIS will later evaluate in the I-140.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate before applying
Target employers with verified green card sponsorship history rather than applying broadly. Migrate Mate shows which companies have filed employment-based green card petitions for IT roles, so you can focus your outreach on employers already familiar with the PERM and I-140 process for your occupation.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Your employer's PERM filing must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for your location and job title. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for Information Technology Associate in your target city before you negotiate, so you don't accept an offer the PERM will later fail.
Track your priority date from the I-140 approval
Your priority date is set when your employer files the PERM application, not when USCIS approves the I-140. Nationals of India and China face the longest backlogs in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories. Record your priority date immediately and check the USCIS Visa Bulletin monthly to know when you can file Form I-485.
Understand AC21 portability before you switch employers
Once your I-485 has been pending for 180 or more days and your I-140 is approved, AC21 job portability lets you move to a new employer in the same or a similar IT occupation without restarting the green card process. Confirm the new role's SOC code matches before resigning from your sponsoring employer.
Green Card Information Technology Associate: Frequently Asked Questions
How is green card sponsorship for an Information Technology Associate different from H-1B sponsorship?
Green card sponsorship leads to lawful permanent residence, not a temporary work status. The employer must complete PERM labor certification with the DOL, which includes a prevailing wage determination and a formal recruitment test, before filing an I-140 petition with USCIS. H-1B visa involves an LCA and an annual cap lottery. The green card process takes longer but the result is permanent authorization to live and work in the United States.
Does an employer have to prove no U.S. worker is available before sponsoring me for a green card?
Yes. PERM labor certification requires the employer to conduct a structured recruitment campaign, including job postings, to test whether a qualified U.S. worker is available for the Information Technology Associate role. If a willing and qualified U.S. applicant responds, the employer generally cannot proceed with the PERM for that position. The recruitment steps, timelines, and documentation requirements are set by DOL regulations.
How do I find employers willing to sponsor an Information Technology Associate for a green card?
Many employers are open to green card sponsorship but don't advertise it in job postings. Migrate Mate shows employers with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history for IT roles, letting you target companies that have already navigated the PERM and I-140 process rather than approaching employers who have never done it before.
Will my country of birth affect how long my green card process takes?
Yes. EB-2 and EB-3 green cards have per-country annual limits, and nationals of India and China face significant priority-date backlogs because demand from those countries far exceeds the available numbers each year. Your priority date is established when your employer files the PERM application. You can track your place in the queue using the monthly USCIS Visa Bulletin.
Can I change jobs after my employer files the I-140 for my Information Technology Associate role?
You can transfer your priority date from an approved I-140 to a new employer's I-140, but you don't gain automatic portability until your I-485 has been pending for 180 or more days. At that point, AC21 portability allows you to move to a new employer in the same or a similar occupation without restarting the process. Changing jobs before those conditions are met puts your pending green card at risk.