Temporary Hire - Systems Solutions Specialist (2-year grant-funded)

$65,000 - $75,000/Yr

University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, MA

Full-time - Entry Level

Dartmouth, MA

Educational Services

About the position

The Systems Solutions Specialist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a full-time, grant-funded position focused on enhancing student degree progression and course planning systems. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to implement and maintain technology solutions that support student success and retention, ensuring timely graduation through effective data management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Leads and oversees student records-related technology improvements including a degree/course planning tool through configuration, development, implementation, and maintenance.
• Collaborates with campus constituents, IT departments, and software vendor partners to create and manage workflow rules, data validation, and report queries.
• Develops and implements a graduation readiness project including progress tracking aimed at identifying students who are within one semester of degree completion.
• Collaborates with college deans and chairpersons to improve and automate the degree clearance/certification process.
• Partners with Associate Registrar on course capacity planning to ensure timely graduation of students.
• Manages degree planning and completion reporting efforts by generating, evaluating and compiling data, authoring and distributing customized queries and reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.
• Develops and supports electronic workflows related to student records enterprise systems.
• Trains faculty, advisors, chairpersons, graduate program directors, deans, and staff in degree planning capabilities and results interpretation.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Over three years of project management experience
• Over three years of experience working with higher education student information systems
• Over three years of experience in professional academic advising and/or degree planning
• Over one year of experience in creating and modifying standard query language (SQL)

Nice-to-haves

• Master's degree
• Working experience with the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, PeopleSoft data model, PeopleSoft Query Manager, and Degree Planning Software Tools
• Experience with data visualization packages

Benefits

• 75% Employer-Paid Health Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance
• Long Term Disability
• State Pension Retirement Plan
• Optional Retirement Savings Plans
• Tuition Credit (Employee, Spouse, & Dependents)
• Twelve (12) paid holidays
• Paid personal, vacation, and sick time