EMC Technical Operations Coordinator

About Champlain College:

Founded in 1878, Champlain College is a small, private, not-for-profit college in Burlington, Vermont overlooking Lake Champlain and the Adirondack mountains, with additional campuses in Montreal, Canada, and Dublin, Ireland. Its career-driven approach to higher education prepares students for professional life from their very first semester. For the fifth year in a row, Champlain was named a "Most Innovative School" in the North by U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges" 2020 regional rankings and listed among The Princeton Review's "The Best 385 Colleges" in 2020. Champlain is also featured in the 2021 Fiske Guide to Colleges as one of the "best and most interesting schools" in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain and is recognized as a 2020 College of Distinction for its "Engagement, Teaching, Community, and Outcomes. The College offers 30 undergraduate degrees as well as online undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs.

Champlain's Centers of Experience provide students from across all majors with experiential learning environments that guide them in how to take their classroom knowledge and put it to the test in practical applications allowing them to gain real-world experience firsthand. Each Center connects Champlain to the local community and the world, turning theory into practice. The Centers entrust students with responsibility, engage them in ambitious goals and empower them to lead with creativity, confidence, insight, and integrity. At the helms of the Centers are cutting-edge industry professionals who share the goal of providing the most relevant, career-focused education, enriched with hands-on learning opportunities.

Job Description:

Champlain College has an exciting opportunity for a Technical Operations Coordinator to join the team. This is a part-time role at 28 hrs per week through June of 2022 with the potential to renew. This position works with both the Emergent Media Center (EMC) and The Champlain Maker Program at Generator.

The EMC is a multidisciplinary creative studio at Champlain College that provides employment and internship opportunities for students to apply what they're learning to real-world projects. Students are guided by faculty and staff to conceptualize, prototype, and produce innovative solutions to a wide range of media and design challenges. As part of its mission to embrace emerging technologies and prototyping, the EMC supports and manages Champlain's partnership with Generator, Burlington's community maker space located just across the parking lot.

The Champlain Maker Program at Generator increases the scope of maker experiences for students, faculty, and staff by offering the Champlain community access to a variety of hand, power, and electronic tools-including a 3D printer, 3D scanner, laser cutter, vinyl cutter, and sewing machines, as well as a woodshop, metal shop, electronics studio, and jewelry studio. Within Generator is the Flex Space, a flexible space shared by Champlain and Generator for classes and events. The Flex Space also serves as a place for students, faculty, and staff to work on projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing student workers at the Emergent Media Center and Generator
  • Hiring and scheduling
  • Training and supervising Generator and EMC Lab Techs
  • Managing the Champlain Maker Program at Generator
  • Serving as a community liaison between Champlain and Generator
  • Planning, coordinating, and implementing the process for Champlain College-sponsored Generator (CC-G) memberships
  • Communicating CC-G membership application policies and processes to Champlain staff, faculty, and students.
  • Moving CC-G memberships through the approval and onboarding process; providing orientation for CC-G members.
  • Coordinating Champlain guest maker access to Generator
  • Working with CC faculty/staff to schedule classroom sessions and other activities at Generator in coordination with Generator's event calendar
  • Maintaining and communicating Generator's policies & procedures and membership agreements to the Champlain community
• Maintaining and overseeing the workspaces at the EMC and in the Flex Space
  • Monitoring and purchasing supplies for student use
  • Working with Generator to ensure that the Flex Space is in working order
  • Managing EMC tech equipment inventory and circulation processes
  • Working with Champlain IS department to maintain computer workstations

Requirements:

Desired Qualifications

You are:

• organized and detail-oriented. Knowing your way around a spreadsheet helps!
• enthusiastic about student engagement, willing to mentor and build community.
• flexible and adaptive to dynamically changing environments.
• a maker who knows your way around a variety of tools including 3-D printers and laser cutters AND has an interest in learning new tools (we will train you!).

Additional Information:

The successful completion of a criminal background check is required as a condition of employment.

Application materials must include a resume/CV and a letter of interest (Cover Letter) specifically addressing the desired qualifications.

Champlain College does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, place of birth, ancestry, religion, age, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, veteran or military service status, HIV -positive status, qualified disability, or on the basis of any other status protected by law, and does not discriminate in the administration of its education and admission policies, scholarship and loan programs, employment practices or co-curricular and other College-administered programs. Champlain College will make reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified students, applicants for admission or employment, or employees. Please contact the People Center at 802.651.5800 with questions concerning the hiring process or future employment at Champlain College, or if auxiliary aids or services are needed to apply for employment at Champlain College.

Champlain College is committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community. Recognizing that diversity is both a reflection of our world and a source of rich education, Champlain strives to be diverse and inclusive in ways that reflect the world in which we live and work. All members of the Champlain community are valued as individuals.

Application Instructions:

The College seeks candidates who, through their work and life experiences, service to the community, teaching or research can contribute to the diversity, inclusivity and academic excellence of Champlain College. Please include information about how you would contribute to these efforts and help to further this goal in your letter of interest/cover letter.

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