Instructional Systems Technician

Classified

3CLR29

1

$5,954.92/month

Las Positas College, 3000 Campus Hill Dr., Livermore, CA 94551

Instructional Technology Center

The Las Positas College Community
Las Positas College provides an inclusive, learning-centered, equity-focused environment that offers educational opportunities and support for completion of students’ transfer, degree, and career-technical goals while promoting lifelong learning. At Las Positas College we know that equity will be achieved by changing the impacts of structural racism, ableism, homophobia, and systematic poverty on student success and access to higher education, achieved through continuous evaluation and improvement of all services. We believe in a high-quality education focused on learning and an inclusive, culturally-relevant environment that meets the diverse needs of all our students and staff. Equity is parity in student educational outcomes; it places belonging for students of color and disproportionately impacted students at center focus. Our prized and emerging equity efforts include Puente, Umoja, ConnectUp, Brother 2 Brother, Sister 2 Sister, Black Student Union, Presidential Task Force on Systemic and Institutionalized Racism, the Presidential Speaker Series, Black Education Association, UndocuAlly Taskforce, curriculum reviews and a linguistic justice curriculum.Located in Livermore, Las Positas College is becoming an institution that reflects the diversity in California. We are a learning-centered institution focused on excellence and student success, and are fully committed to supporting all Tri-Valley residents in their quest for education and advancement.
Joining Our College Community
We seek equity-minded applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits diversity brings to an educational community. We look for applicants who:

1. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference2. Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence3. Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice4. Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students5. Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals6. Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities7. Empower the underrepresented and underserved8. Foster students’ potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders9. Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking to fill an Instructional Systems Technician for Las Positas College in Livermore, California.

Under general supervision, install, operate and maintain all College instructional delivery systems, including audio/visual equipment, projectors, amplifiers, media players, and microphones; provide timely and effective technical support to administrative and instructional users of instructional equipment.

The following duties are typical for this classification. Incumbents may not perform all of the listed duties and/or may be required to perform additional or different duties from those set forth below to address business needs and changing business practices.

1. Assist in the design, planning, purchase, and installation of instructional delivery systems; provide training on instructional delivery systems.

2. Respond to user requests for multimedia hardware and related materials; deliver equipment to classrooms and verify proper operation.

3. Perform preventive maintenance on all audio/visual and instructional presentation equipment.

4. Install and maintain classroom computers, terminals and related hardware and software; supervise the use, care, and operation of instructional technology equipment including computers, projectors, audio/visual equipment, and recording equipment.

5. Install and maintain multimedia equipment including data/video projectors, audio systems and related controls; adjust data/video network switching systems; maintain the campus video communications systems and network.

6. Provide technical support for events and meetings on and off campus; coordinate, schedule, design, install, service, and operate data projectors and live audio during events and meetings.

7. Respond to instructor requests for assistance with hardware and software problems on classroom demonstration computers; determine instructor needs and requirements.

8. Install, maintain, upgrade and configure video conferencing system software on campus video communication systems; monitor audio and video conference systems and sites including satellite systems.

9. Assist in the design, engineering, cabling and installation of mounting hardware in multimedia classrooms.

10. Coordinate installation, maintenance, and repair of classroom instructional equipment.

11. Prepare and distribute technical tips and advice to instructional equipment users through memos, bulletins, and workshops.

12. Order, catalog, and store consumable supplies and repair parts.

13. Update and install patches on instructional computers; perform diagnostic troubleshooting of computer equipment and related peripherals.

14. Assist in planning the procedures for the use of classroom equipment.

15. Record events and edit and transfer footage to various media.

16. Troubleshoot equipment problems; replace defective components or coordinate with other support personnel for replacement.

17. Repair and maintain audio/visual and public address systems and equipment.

18. Learn and use new technologies
required to remain current in the field.

19. Perform related duties as required.

Any combination of the following would provide a typical way to obtain the required knowledge and abilities.

Education/Training:
Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade supplemented by specialized training in electronic technology, computer science, computer technology, or a related field.

Experience:
Two years of increasingly responsible computer or audio/visual equipment maintenance experience.

License or Certificate:
Possession of an appropriate, valid driver’s license.

The following generally describes the knowledge and ability required to enter the job and/or be learned within a short period of time in order to successfully perform the assigned duties.

Knowledge of:
1. Modern technologies and systems for delivering instruction using television transmission, wide band digital transmission over commercial sources, digital and analog satellite systems, and multimedia instructional delivery equipment systems in local and remote access sites.

2. Installation, use and routine maintenance of classroom instructional equipment.

3. Audio/visual equipment specifications.

4. Data communications protocols between equipment components such as video signals, bandwidths and switching signals.

5. Installation and use of television, satellite, videoconferencing and other similar instructional delivery systems.

6. Equipment assets and resources for maximum availability.

7. Computer operating systems and applications commonly used in instructional delivery systems.

8. Video camera and recording techniques and optical lens focal requirements.

9. Video editing systems.

10. Audio mixing and related sound amplification equipment operation.

11. Basic networking principles and practices.

12. Basic website editing techniques.

13. Basic electrical concepts and repair principles.

14. Basic inventory principles.

15. Pertinent federal, state, and local codes, laws, and regulations including media and copyright laws.

Ability to:
1. Operate and troubleshoot a wide variety of instructional audio/visual and computer equipment.

2. Operate office equipment including computers and supporting word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.

3. Use small hand tools and electronic diagnostic equipment.

4. Apply basic electronic concepts and laws.

5. Apply analog and digital electronic theory.

6. Perform basic networking.

7. Operate public address (PA) equipment.

8. Work independently in the absence of supervision.

9. Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.

10. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.

11. Work with and exhibit sensitivity to and understanding of the varied racial, ethnic, cultural, sexual orientation, academic, socio-economic, and disabled populations of community college students.

40 hours/week, Monday – Friday, 1:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., hours may vary depending on department needs, occasional daytime and weekends may be required as needed, 12 months/year.

The conditions herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Environment:
Work is performed in indoor and outdoor environments, with travel from site to site and exposure to all types of weather and temperature conditions; exposure to electrical energy; work at heights on scaffolding and ladders.

Physical:
Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to walk, stand, and sit for prolonged periods of time; frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, reach, and twist; push, pull, lift, and/or carry moderate to heavy amounts of weights; requires a sense of touch, finger dexterity, gripping with fingers and hands; operate assigned equipment and vehicles; and verbally communicate to exchange information.

It is the policy of this District to provide equal opportunity in all areas of
employment practices and to assure that there shall be no discrimination against
any person on the basis of sex, ancestry, age, marital status, race, religious
creed, mental disability, medical condition (including HIV and AIDS), color,
national origin, physical disability, family or sexual preference status and other
similar factors in compliance with Title IX, Sections 503 and 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act, other federal and state non-discrimination regulations, and its
own statements of philosophy of objectives. The District encourages the filing of
applications by both sexes, ethnic minorities, and the disabled.

AS538P

07/18/2022

09/09/2022

No

Shift Differential: Effective January 1, 2015, for work performed on the graveyard shift by employees regularly assigned to the shift, the differential shall be three percent (3%). For work performed on the swing shift by employees regularly assigned to the shift, the differential shall be two percent (2%). An employee who receives a shift differential premium on the basis of their regularly assigned shift shall suffer no reduction in pay, including differential, when assigned temporarily to a day shift for twenty (20) working days or less.

The Board of Trustees has implemented a vaccine mandate for all employees. Accordingly, finalist(s) must comply with the vaccine mandate prior to being forwarded to the Board of Trustees for approval. See vaccine mandate information at http://districtazure.clpccd.org/policies/files/docs/BP7330.pdf.

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District reserves the right to close or not fill any advertised position

The purpose of the personal qualifications statement is for you to provide information on how your education and experience relate to the requirements and duties of the position. There is no form to complete. Applicants are requested to provide their personal qualifications statement by uploading a document, the same way as you do for your cover letter.