Technology Coordinator

Scattergood seeks a part-time technology coordinator to begin employment on August 15, 2015. The school is able to consider this position with other part-time work with the school.

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.

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, and managing and maintaining school-owned information technology hardware.

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
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
Configure and maintain Watchguard Firewall
Access-point and router configuration and troubleshooting
Working with internet provider to evaluate connections
Updating policies
Setting up users
Traffic monitoring
Setting up users/groups and troubleshooting as needed
Manage the school’s Google Apps environment
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
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