Technology Database Specialist
Job Description
Database Specialist
Girard College is a full-scholarship boarding school that fosters intellectual curiosity, social development, and emotional growth in academically focused students from underserved communities. We ensure every student the opportunity and the means to achieve excellence and preparation for advanced education through purposeful academic and residential programs.
Position Overview:
The Database Specialist is responsible for managing, supporting, and maintaining school-wide on-premises and cloud-based database systems. The incumbent will build data integrations and optimization across academic and operational databases such as Infinite Campus, School Admin, Magnus Health, Naviance, Paycom, and other systems as needed. The Database Specialist position requires a strong blend of people skills (necessary to understand, refine, and prioritize user requirements) and technical skills (necessary to configure our databases and create queries, reports, etc. that meet those requirements). The specialist will work closely with teachers, and residential and administrative employees to support innovative pedagogy and technology integration to enhance learning outcomes. This full-time position is located on the campus of Girard College in Philadelphia, PA. The Database Specialist will report to the Director of Data Strategy and Impact and will collaborate with the Director of Information Technology on specific database tasks.
Job Responsibilities Include:
- Serve as the lead database specialist for Infinite Campus, the institution’s student information system, ensuring data integrity across all modules in the database and integrated secondary databases/services; querying, exporting, reporting, and maintaining integrity through clean and accurate data import and export
- Develop tutorials, identify online resources, and design and deliver training workshops for faculty, staff, administrators, students, and parents
- Committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) demonstrated by a demonstrated willingness to examine personal identity and biases and comfort engaging in conversations around race, class, and privilege
- Commit to professional growth, self-reflection, receptiveness to feedback, and a desire to continuously improve
- A deep commitment to Girard’s mission and alignment with Girard’s values
- Support and train all database end-users, support includes a query and custom report requests
- Serve as the primary builder of custom reports, modules, tabs, forms, and queries across multiple data systems for departments and divisions
- Engage in professional development around database capabilities (specifically, Infinite Campus SIS) and features (and how to configure them) via direct training from the vendor and independent research
- Ensures good database health by auditing data
- Provide support for the SIS, and LMS back-end and support academic leadership for course creation, scheduling, grade book, yearly calendar turnover, and other tasks as necessary
- Obtain knowledge of database systems and the unique requirements of different services
- Provide institutional support for campus data systems, Infinite Campus, Magnus Health, and other attributable data systems
- Develop, coordinate, and execute regular synchronization of data between multiple applications via import and export or custom scripts
- Provide strategic management for efficient data flow across Girard’s databases
- Provide support with creating visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and importing dashboards to Infinite Campus; import data and visualizations from Tableau Online to Infinite Campus
- Perform other duties as assigned
Education, Experience, and Skills:
- Minimum of an Associate Degree, Bachelor’s preferred
- 1-2 years of relevant work experience
- 1-2 years experience working with an SIS, ERP, or CRM
- Proficient in MSSQL, MySQL, and online forms, Excel, Tableau. Microsoft Dynamics is a plus
- Demonstrated experience with scripts, APIs, and data importing/exporting to synchronize information between applications
- Experience working as part of an IT or Data team at a school or university is a plus
- Demonstrated ability to quickly understand new technology processes and platforms
- Demonstrated work experience producing dynamic data visualizations and reports using Tableau
- Demonstrated work experience using relational databases, including writing queries in SQL and building dynamic reports
- Proficient project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to multitask, as well as prioritize work, and meet deadlines
Salary:
$55,000-$65,000
COVID-19 Vaccination Policy:
Girard College is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from people of all backgrounds. Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. We offer a complete benefits program and opportunities for professional growth.
UPDATE AS OF MAY 2022 – Please review Girard College’s Health and Safety Plans here to learn about our approach to vaccination and testing and our response to COVID-19 for the 2022-23 school year. For ongoing positions, Girard College’s roles are designated as in-person, with regular on-site responsibilities, unless otherwise noted. As such, Employees must be able to support Girard College’s academic plan and business strategies on-site.
Exceptions to this requirement will be considered on an individualized basis.
All Girard College employees are required to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
