Specialist I Solution Center

About the role

Number of Positions In Requisition

1

Job Summary

Responsible for providing technical assistance and support to end-users across the organization. Troubleshoots hardware and software issues, triages, escalates, or resolves technical problems, leverages and maintains relevant knowledge base documentation, and ensures the smooth operation of Jefferson systems.

Involves responding to user inquiries, providing guidance on technology tools, managing support tickets, and collaborating with other IS&T teams to implement solutions. Adheres to all organizational and regulatory cybersecurity and compliance policies when conducting service desk activities, enhances user experience, maintains productivity, and ensures that technology resources are effectively utilized across the organization.

Essential Functions

• Provides support for software, hardware, security, network problems, and questions via multiple customer contact channels, documents all activity in service management system following standard procedures, and adheres to established guidelines for cybersecurity policies and procedures, customer service skills, documentation quality, and response speed.
• Coordinates with other IS&T team members to appropriately escalate and resolve issues as quickly as possible based on priority and severity.
• Documents resolutions and contribute to knowledge base system to address commonly reported problems, questions, and known troubleshooting and resolution steps.
• Participates in continual improvement efforts aimed at improving IS&T and service desk systems and workflows to enhance operational efficiency.

Additional Responsibilities

• ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT: Works to deliver on day-to-day objectives with some impact on achievement of results for the job area. Delivers job responsibilities following a defined standard output or set of procedures. Work consists of tasks that are very routine, or well defined, with specific instructions to achieve standardized solutions.
• INNOVATION & COMPLEXITY: Responsible for checking data and information when minor changes may be required based on review. Problems and issues faced are routine and solutions clearly prescribed. Follows a well-established and familiar set of activities and/or processes to derive a solution.
• COMMUNICATION & INFLUENCE: Communicates with contacts typically within immediate job area on matters that involve obtaining or providing information requiring little explanation or interpretation.

Qualifications

Education - Required

• High School Diploma/GED

Experience - Required

• Less than 1 year related work experience

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities - Preferred

• Possesses strong knowledge of troubleshooting personal computers, mobile devices, and network connectivity issues to ensure smooth and efficient operations.
• Demonstrates the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment while remaining self-motivated and disciplined in completing tasks.
• Shows excellent attention to detail with strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify problems, and develop effective solutions.
• Maintains the ability to manage multiple and changing priorities in a fast-paced environment while delivering high-quality results.
• Work Shift
• Workday Day (United States of America)
• Worker Sub Type
• Regular
• Employee Entity
• Thomas Jefferson University
• Primary Location Address
• 130 S 9th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Additional information

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value.

Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research.

Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200+ undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students.

Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region.

Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts.

Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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