Summary of Position
Scattergood seeks a part-time technology coordinator to begin employment on July 1, 2015.
The school is able to consider this position with other part-time work with the school.
The technology coordinator’s duties incorporate three main areas of responsibility:
- support for student and staff technology use on campus
- managing and maintaining the campus network
- managing and maintaining school-owned information technology hardware
Application Contact
Those interested in applying should contact Thomas Weber by email to TWeber@scattergood.org.
About Scattergood
Established in 1890, Scattergood is an extraordinary Iowa City area college prep boarding and day school known for its progressive academics, organic farm, and prairie. [More…]
Mission: Scattergood Friends School challenges students with a college-preparatory curriculum, farm experience, a shared work program, and community living in the spirit of Quaker faith.
Primary Responsibilities:
Develop a system to be responsive to student and staff needs primarily involving the maintenance and management of 60 computers in 1:1 laptop program with Acer laptops running Windows 7 and 8
- Ability to upgrade and phase-in new software and hardware
- General troubleshooting
- repair and rebuild in timely fashion
Maintain campus wireless network to ensure smoothly operating internet access and work to meet demand for increased bandwidth
- Access-point and router configuration and troubleshooting
- Working with internet provider to evaluate connections
Configure and maintain Watchguard Firewall
- updating policies
- setting up users
- traffic monitoring
Manage the school’s Google Apps environment
- Setting up users/groups and troubleshooting as needed
Work with office manager and academic dean to train teachers to use online grade book (RenWeb)
Setup and maintain peripherals like printers, 3D printer and projectors
- Provide teachers with ideas and support to incorporate innovative technologies into their classroom practices.
Maintain an orderly work environment and technology office
- Keeping an accurate inventory of supplies
- purging of old materials
- ordering of new supplies
Contact and effectively use outside consults/resources.
Develop and utilize with the Head of School a multi-year technology plan and budget
Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
- Ability (with high levels of social intelligence) to be responsive to diverse constituent requests.
- General knowledge of local computer networking
- Basic understanding of computer anatomy/repair
- Strong organizational skills
- Self-directed working habits
- Experience working with technology support in a professional setting
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