IT Support Specialist, WCIT Client Services
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Posted Job Title
IT Support Specialist, WCIT Client Services
Job Profile Title
Information Technology Support Specialist B
Job Description Summary
Founded in 1881 as the world's first collegiate business school, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is shaping the future of business by incubating ideas, driving insights, and creating leaders who change the world. With campuses in both Philadelphia and San Francisco, Wharton has over 850 staff, a faculty population of more than 235 renowned professors, and 5,000 undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, and doctoral students. Each year 13,000 professionals from around the world advance their careers through Wharton Executive Education's individual, company-customized, and online programs. More than 104,000 Wharton alumni form a powerful global network of leaders who transform business every day. Wharton is home to a diverse population of staff, representing a rich array of backgrounds, expertise, and cultures. To learn more, visit www.wharton.upenn.edu.
The Client Technology Services - Client Support team provides high-level, user-focused, technical support services to Wharton faculty, staff and students. We work with an emphasis on triage and escalation, initial assessment, research, and resolution of incidents and requests to minimize disruption of Wharton business. We are always seeking to find new ways to deliver the highest level of support and technical guidance possible for faculty/staff/students, events, and initiatives we support.
Job Description
IT Support Specialist position's responsibilities: As an IT Support Specialist, you will diagnose and resolve technical problems with computing hardware, software, and network services, and complete project work as assigned. You will strive to create a positive customer support experience and build strong relationships through deep problem understanding, ensuring timely resolution, communicating promptly on progress, and handling clients with a client-focused professional attitude. It is your job to ensure the end-to-end customer experience is as positive and pleasant for those we work with and for and provide a single point-of-contact for the client. Collaboration across the Client Services and rest of the Client Technology Services team is expected.
Occasional weekend and off-hours support for special events, including alumni weekend, and graduation may be required. On-call contact may be required during non-business hours as well, to respond to urgent, high priority, and escalated service issues or outages. This includes the potential for both evening and weekend hours. You will be encouraged to participate in cross-department and cross-university teams to evaluate, establish, and/or deploy new technologies and processes for the school, such as participating in evaluation teams, the Super User Group, special interest groups, service teams, and more.
DUTIES:
The Client Technology Services - Client Support team provides high-level, user-focused, technical support services to Wharton administrative departments. We work with an emphasis on triage and escalation, initial assessment, research, and resolution of incidents and requests to minimize disruption of Wharton business. We are always seeking to find new ways to deliver the highest level of support and technical guidance possible for the staff members, events, and initiatives we support.
IT Support Specialist position's responsibilities:
As an IT Support Specialist, you will diagnose and resolve technical problems with computing hardware, software, and network services, and complete project work as assigned. You will strive to create a positive customer support experience and build strong relationships through deep problem understanding, ensuring timely resolution, communicating promptly on progress, and handling clients with a client-focused professional attitude. It is your job to ensure the end-to-end customer experience is as positive and pleasant for those we work with and for and provide a single point-of-contact for the client. Collaboration across the Client Services and rest of the Client Technology Services team is expected.
Occasional weekend and off-hours support for special events, including alumni weekend, and graduation may be required. On-call contact may be required during non-business hours as well, to respond to urgent, high priority, and escalated service issues or outages. This includes the potential for both evening and weekend hours.
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