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Information Technology Associate jobs at H-1B visa sponsoring employers typically require a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, satisfying USCIS specialty occupation standards. These roles support infrastructure, systems, and end-user environments across industries that file LCAs regularly with DOL.
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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 H-1B Visa Sponsorship as an Information Technology Associate
Align your degree to the role title
USCIS scrutinizes whether your specific degree field matches the IT Associate duties listed in the LCA. A computer science or information systems degree maps cleanly. If yours is adjacent, ask your employer to document the connection explicitly in the I-129 support letter.
Look up prevailing wages before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the wage level your employer certified for your worksite location. Your offered salary must meet or exceed that figure. Level I wages apply to entry-level IT Associate roles, but Level II may be required if you have prior experience.
Verify each worksite has its own certified LCA
If you rotate between client sites or office locations, each worksite needs a separate certified LCA on file before you work there. Flag multi-site arrangements with your employer early so DOL filings don't lag behind your actual work schedule.
Target employers with active IT LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to find employers who have consistently filed LCAs for Information Technology Associate roles. Active filing history signals an established sponsorship process, reducing the risk of delays from employers navigating H-1B paperwork for the first time.
Review your O*NET profile before interviews
The O*NET profile for IT support and associate roles lists core tasks and required knowledge domains employers often mirror in job descriptions. Matching your resume language to those descriptors strengthens specialty occupation documentation and helps your employer write a credible I-129 support letter.
Understand your 60-day grace period before the cap
If you lose or leave an IT Associate role while in H-1B status, you have a 60-day grace period to find a new sponsoring employer and begin a transfer. Don't wait until day 55 to start the process. A new employer can file a concurrent I-129 before your current status ends.
H-1B Visa Information Technology Associate: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Information Technology Associate role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, when the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a directly related field. Employers must document that the specific IT Associate duties demand that degree-level knowledge. Roles structured around generalist helpdesk tasks without a formal degree requirement may not qualify, so the job description and LCA must reflect degree-level responsibilities.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for IT Associate positions?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history for technology roles, so you can focus your applications on companies that have already navigated the sponsorship process. Filtering by role type and location helps you identify employers in your target market who file consistently, not just occasionally.
Can my employer transfer my H-1B to a new IT Associate role at a different company?
Yes. H-1B portability allows you to begin working for a new sponsoring employer once they file an I-129 transfer petition, as long as you've been in valid H-1B status and the new role also qualifies as a specialty occupation. You don't need to wait for USCIS approval before starting, but the petition must be filed before your current status expires.
What happens to my H-1B if my employer places me at a client site rather than their own office?
Each client worksite requires its own certified LCA specifying that location's prevailing wage. If your employer places you at a client site that isn't listed on your existing LCA, they must file a new one with DOL before you begin work there. Confirm this process with your employer before accepting any assignment that changes your work location.
How long can I stay in the U.S. on H-1B status as an IT Associate?
USCIS grants H-1B status in increments of up to three years, with extensions available up to a six-year maximum under standard rules. Extensions beyond six years require an approved or pending I-140 immigrant petition. Plan your career timeline around these limits, especially if your employer intends to sponsor you for permanent residence.