What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technology Coordinator position at Mount Ida School District?
The school technology coordinator oversees the planning, implementation, and support of technology systems to enhance teaching, learning and school operations. This role manages hardware, software, and network infrastructure; provides technical support to the staff and students; and ensures the effective integration of instructional technology into the curriculum.
Duties and Responsibilities:
-Maintains software site licenses and supervises proper legal and software usage
- Understands and prepares bid requests, evaluates proposals, and oversees vendor
contracts relating to technology
-Maintains District software and hardware inventory, including management of e-waste
-Supervises and assists with data integration between district data assets; performs data
analysis and data cleansing
-Oversees e-rate application and documentation
-Maintains expertise through professional development opportunities, networking, and
coursework
-Creates and maintains staff and student users accounts
-Manages all laptops, chrome books, and printers for students and district staff
-Provides input on technology purchases and negotiates costs on behalf of the district
- Helps to maintain district websites
-Oversees construction projects and contracts as they apply to technology services
-Collaborates with Director of Curriculum for the ongoing professional development of
district staff
-Serves as Network Administrator responsible for monitoring, documentation, backup and
restoration, security, virus protection, performance monitoring and user access rights
-Maintains effective working relationships with department directors, school
administration, other district staff, vendors, students, consultants, and others as required
-Maintains a high level of confidentiality of sensitive and confidential information
-Performs other duties as assigned
-Eschool Administrator
-Install and maintain network, infrastructure including cabling, fiber optics, etc.
Performance Responsibilities and Evaluation Criteria:
- Contributing member of the school’s technology committee to ensure that technology is
integrated into the instructional program of the school
-Develops with faculty and administration the school technology plan in accordance with
District and Arkansas Education Technology plans based on curricular needs and the
District Plan
-Develops, provide, and/or coordinates professional development to staff in the use of
computer software/hardware and peripherals and demonstrates practical applications for
curriculum connections
-Provides input and/or acts as an advisor on purchases of all hardware and software to
the technology committee and administration accordance with District and Arkansas
Technology Plan
-Maintains inventory of computers, printers, peripherals, and software in the school and
provides service for minor repairs to the equipment and the networks
-Administrates and supports Mount Ida School network on a day-to-day basis
-Acts as the point of contact and disseminates information between Co-Op and DIS units
and the school staff
-Schedule routine technology meetings and participate in professional development to
keep informed of current developments in computer technology and education
-Serves as the first “point of contact” for computer and network related problems in the
school
Any interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume, and job references to the superintendent, Ann Gardner, at ann.gardner@mtidalions.org