Media Technician III Grade D

    Clerical and Technical generic job description

    Family: Technical Support
    Job Code: 752

    Representative duties:

    • Serves as a principal source of information to faculty, students and support staff on standardized and specialized media production techniques and equipment operation.  Explains and describes the use and operation of video equipment and editing techniques through classroom lectures and in response to inquiries
    • Plans and schedules video productions.  Operates specialized and standardized video camera, editing, and duplicating systems
    • Conducts research related to video productions
    • Maintains and repairs specialized and standardized video equipment
    • Oversees and instructs support staff in the use and operation of media equipment
    • Performs additional functions incidental to media technician activities

    The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.

    Required knowledge:

    • Advanced knowledge; college-level degree; substantial knowledge in specialized field; substantial knowledge of broader field of learning. Limited acquaintance with business, accounting, or commercial procedures. Limited knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of a narrow area of University academic, administrative, or financial rules and procedures

    Required skills:

    • Extracts and compiles a range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking set questions, or from one or several given databases, limited interpretation of data. Routine use of a major library catalogue or reference database. Files already labeled material using straightforward alphabetical, numerical, or chronological system. Summarizes, revises, or makes limited use of complex, technical, or specialized literature. Writes simple internal memoranda, fills out complex forms. Regular skilled use of complex machines; responsible for troubleshooting and maintenance necessary to ensure consistent operation at a high quality level; and/or sophisticated manipulation of a database

    Office and administrative skills:

    • Keyboards forms, labels, and other simple material. Enters and retrieves data from given sources. Arranges for and coordinates schedules, appointments, projects, conferences, and major events. Advises, screens, and refers callers and visitors

    Experience, education and formal training:

    • Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education

    Complexity and organization:

    • Wide variety of complicated job tasks numerous processes/methods. Often coordinate or organize the work of others

    Interpersonal relations:

    • Ongoing involvement outside the work unit. Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on complex matters. Trains, instructs or teaches others in academic, research or other professional matters

    Supervisory guidelines:

    • Work may or may not be reviewed. Incumbent plans and schedules own work and/or work of others based on the understanding of broadly defined objectives and priorities; supervisor reviews work after completion. Instruction provided only in very rare instances

    Independent judgment:

    • Established procedures/policies govern some work situations. Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative. Problems cannot be solved by following established procedures; solutions must be found independently

    Leadership responsibility:

    • Often provides work guidance, instruction, or orientation of others. Often distributes and monitors work

    Impact and consequence of error:

    • Work has significant impact both on more than one department and outside the University. Errors are not difficult to recognize but may be difficult to correct. Errors or mistaken release of confidential information can cause harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals and groups

    Working conditions:

    • Very little possibility of safety risks. Regular, multiple or conflicting demands, deadlines, emergencies or time pressures. Regular sustained concentration. Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity