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UIC Information Technology Associate – System Administrator

Information Technology Associate – System Administrator

The University of Illinois at Chicago seeks an experienced and self-motivated System Administrator for a permanent position as an Information Technology Technical Associate at the Academic Computing and Communications Center. The System Administrator will join a team of other system administrators and programmers responsible for implementation, development, integration and ongoing operation of the University’s central learning management system (Blackboard). The position reports directly to the Assistant Director for Academic Computing who directs the Instructional Technology Group.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversee the day-to-day system administration of the university’s learning management system (LMS), including system performance, utilization, maintenance and support, as well as course site creation and student enrollment.

• Configure and modify the LMS to match the university and Academic Computing policies.

• Participate in the planning, testing and implementation of new LMS releases, service packs, patches, LMS server extensions and hardware upgrades.

• Perform LMS back-end system fine-tuning, including Oracle database maintenance and optimization.

• Take part in maintaining and programming existing and future LMS system integration and automation with third-party back-end systems (like SunGuard Banner, uPortal, LDAP) and custom authentication systems.

• Run Unix system administration shell scripts, tools and programs, regularly.

• Interact with vendor and other technical staff to plan system upgrades and device problem resolution.

• Provide training to faculty and teaching staff on new LMS features and enhancements.

Minimum Acceptable Qualifications:

1. Any combination totaling two (2) years from the following categories:

a) Progressively more responsible work experience in IT-related profession

b) College course work in Information Technology (IT), IT Management, or a closely related discipline, as measured by the following conversion table or its proportional equivalent:

● 60 semester hours or Associate’s Degree equals one year

● 90-120 semester hours or Bachelor’s Degree equals two years

2. System administration experience in Blackboard or a comparable learning management system.

For fullest consideration please submit a cover letter, resume and official college transcripts to the University of Illinois at Chicago, Human Resources at email address: Emp_Rec2@uillinois.edu through the close of business on Friday, March 4th, 2011. Please reference Job Code CA6587 and the position title in the cover letter and email. All information submitted will be thoroughly evaluated and verified.

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