CTS - Tech Bar Technical Support
Job Description:
Provide a single point of contact to UW-Parkside Faculty, Staff and Students for information technology related problems. Assist these members of the UW-Parkside community with telephone, email or ticket inquiries to resolve or escalate IT System issues and problems. Provide support and incident management and client communications for IT system faults and outages and service requests.
Personal Attributes:
The desired candidate not only opens and closes tickets quickly, but they leave a perception with the customer of an organized, professional, friendly and competent IT Department. For this reason, personal traits such as friendly demeanor, attention to detail, communication skills, and emotional intelligence are important characteristics for this role.
High Impact Statement:
By incorporating classroom learning into hands-on work experience as well as receiving supervision and coaching, students gain necessary tools to grow and contribute as professionals.
Career Readiness Competencies:
Career and Self-Development
- Attend all required Professional Development Training
- Read books, periodicals, and internal documentation to improve knowledge of the information technology and future trends.
- Attend classes, training, and workshops to increase IT knowledge and other relevant skills as designated by Client Services Manager and Desktop Support full time staff.
Critical Thinking
- Escalate problems as appropriate following Help Desk procedures.
- Demonstrate problem-solving skills and stress management when providing support and incident management.
Teamwork
- Interact and collaborate with the TechBar team to solve problems, support clients, and improve efficiency of the TechBar.
Communication
- Obtain and convey concise problem information for external and internal service personnel.
- Demonstrate consistently good customer service skills.
Equity & Inclusion
- DEI statement – TechBar employees work closely with a diverse population of clients and will provide consistent, high quality support to all clients.
Professionalism
- Provide accurate and timely logging of problems and resolutions with an attention to detail.
- Demonstrate planning and organizational skills to follow incident and problem recording and documentation standards.
- Exhibit adaptability in your role in order to manage multiple tickets, client incidents, or outages as they arise.
Technology
- Provide first-level contact and problem resolution for all users with hardware, software and applications problems.
- Resolve as many user-reported problems as expertise permits using available tools, and following procedures and policies for handling of support cases.