Specialist, Student Affairs Help Desk

Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Reflects the diversity of our community
• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for under-represented populations
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Commitment to Equity and Inclusion

ACC is committed to the ongoing systemic changes needed to ensure the increased recruitment, inclusion, retention, and completion of historically underserved and under represented populations. Through continual strategic community engagement and professional development of administrators, faculty, staff, and students, the college demonstrates its dedication to fostering a culture and climate for equitable outcomes.

As an open access and low-cost institution, ACC is proud to serve a diverse student body. Dedicated faculty members are excellent professors who help students achieve their educational goals and are sensitive to the diverse cultures and socio-economic backgrounds of our students. In 2017 our faculty adopted a Statement of ACC Faculty Values. This Statement affirms that ACC's faculty members value collaboration, service, agency, scholarship, inclusion, and teaching, all of which attest to our commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our mission.

Job Posting Title:

Specialist, Student Affairs Help Desk

Job Description Summary:

To interact with customers in a call center environment to provide and process information in response to inquiries, concerns, and requests about Austin Community College (ACC) services and procedures.

This is a fully remote position.
Working hours are assigned within the hours of operation of Monday- Thursday 8 am - 7 pm, Friday 8 am-5 pm, and Saturday 10 am - 4 pm.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks
Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

1) Receives, records, and identifies requests via phone, email, and web from ACC students, faculty, and staff.
2) Utilizes problem and change management processes to perform root cause analysis, and make recommendations to eliminate the root cause.
3) Coordinates and dispatches second and third level work requests when requests cannot be completed at the first level.
4) Enters all requests into the Action Request System, and monitors progress through to resolution.
5) Contacts customers within the specified time frame to confirm problem resolution as well as degree of satisfaction with work completed.
6) Documents and publishes self-help procedures, hardware and software installation and setup procedures, and lists of ACC supported software and hardware.
7) Advises clients of scheduled and unscheduled down times.
8) Monitors virus alert web pages and makes recommendations in relation to sending out bulletins that highlight warnings and instructions for preventing viruses from interrupting business.

Skills
* Help desk policies, standards, and protocols.
* Help desk action request systems.
* Virus monitoring processes and virus alert protocols.
* Hardware and software installation and setup procedures.
* Customer service principles and practices.
* Relevant computer applications.
* Maintaining an established work schedule.
* Analyzing problems and making recommendations in relation to change management processes.
* Effectively using listening skills, adaptability, and initiative.
* Effectively using both oral and written communication skills.
* Ability to cope with stressful situations.
* Effectively using interpersonal and communications skills including tact and diplomacy.
* Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
* Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.
* Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships.

Technology Skills

* Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.

Required Work Experience
* One year related work experience.

Required Education
* High school diploma or educational equivalent.

Other Preferred Qualifications
* Bilingual in English/Spanish.

Hours

Work hours will be assigned during these hours of operation:

Monday - Thursday 8:00 am - 7:00 pm

Friday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Saturday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

PLEASE NOTE: THIS POSITION IS 100% REMOTE.

Salary Range

$37,465 - $53,521

Please Note : ACC job postings are removed from advertising at 12:00 A.M on the job posting closing date (midnight on the day before the closing date). Please apply prior to the job closing date and time.

Number of Openings:

2

Job Posting Close Date:

May 27, 2022

ACC Benefits Overview

Full-time faculty and staffing table employees who work in full-time and/or part-time positions at the college are eligible for ACC medical benefits effective the first of the month after their first 60 days of employment. Benefits include medical, dental, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, retirement plans and AD&D.

ACC does not participate in Social Security. ACC participates in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and the Optional Retirement Program (ORP-Faculty and Administrators Only). Part-time and Hourly employees participate in the ACC Money Purchase Plan (ACCMPP) as a retirement program required by federal law.

EEO Statement

The Austin Community College District is an Equal Opportunity Employer advancing inclusive excellence. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, political affiliation or other protected categories.

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under the Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC as its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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