Open Positions
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OPEN- Academic Budget Specialist
The Department of Computer Science seeks applications for an Academic Budget Specialist staff position.
Job duties include:
- Maintain department personnel files including onboarding of new hires and updates to job titles, pay rates, FTE changes, and funding sources.
- Prepare and approve PCRs in line with established policies and procedures within the Academic Affairs division.
- Process purchasing and accounts payable transactions, such as setting up purchase orders, monitoring the department purchasing card activity, submitting for reimbursements to employees, and process payments to vendors.
- Department Timekeeper responsible for maintaining accurate and timely records of employee work hours, leave usage, and payroll-related data for the department.
- Manage multiple budgets – salary, operating, and research budgets. Budget management includes budget line adjustments, transfers between budgets, calculations of salaries and fringes, forecasting expenditures and preparing financial reports.
- Assist with budget development as it pertains to salaries and expenditures.
- Conduct expenditure research, compile data, and prepare reports.
- Research, request quotes, and prepare purchase orders. Validate invoices to purchase orders and Goods Receipts/Research discrepancies. Reconcile Goods Receipts to items received on purchase orders. Contact vendors about damaged, lost/late, or return orders.
- Resolve problems related to the recording, reporting, and monitoring of financial activity.
Consult with faculty and provide recommendations on budget and financial questions, decisions, risks, practices, rules, and processes. - Perform other duties as assigned.
Online submission of all application materials is required through the university's application portal: Texas State University Applicant Portal- Academic Budget Specialist
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CLOSED FOR REVIEW - Systems Administrator II
This position is currently not accepting applications.
The Department of Computer Science seeks applications for a Systems Administrator II staff position.
Job duties include:
- Oversee and manage core systems and services provided to the Department of Computer Science.
- Perform server deployment, configuration, and maintenance, including patch management and system upgrades.
- Ensure backup of systems, restoration of system data, disaster recovery and business continuity.
- Anticipate, identify and resolve or escalate problems and issues.
- Recognize and address anomalies such as security violations, network and server response, and I/O throughput.
- Communicate effectively on the potential impact of various technical events and system status.
- Evaluate department needs and develop user support, including technical documentation describing customer service needs.
- Manage and troubleshoot user accounts, Active Directory, authentication and access permissions.
- Collaborate with ITAC, vendors, and network administrators on upgrades and complex issues.
- Implement IT security best practices and apply remediation techniques.
- Provide advanced technical support.
- Supervise the Systems Analyst II and Systems Support Analyst.
- Serve as first point of contact/communication for all technical events and systems status information.
- Develop training for software and research platforms and translate complex technical and compliance issues into documentation and protocol.
- Implement IT security best practices and apply remediation techniques.
- Responsible for the administration of High-Performance Computing (HPC) for artificial intelligence.
- Responsible for the management of AI and machine learning software and frameworks.
- Data management and storage solutions management (handling large datasets and sensitive information).
- Responsible for cloud computing integration.
Online submission of all application materials is required through the university's application portal: Texas State University Applicant Portal | Systems Administrator II