Instructional Support Specialist Ii

Salary: $17.60 - $22.88 Hourly
Location : Prescott, AZ
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 2024-00003
Department: Dean-Math, Science & Comp Techngy
Opening Date: 01/19/2024
Description of Position
Hiring Range: $17.60 - $22.88
The Instructional Support Specialist (ISS) builds relationships with faculty, staff, deans, students, and the general public in an effort to provide proactive support for the achievement of the department, divisional, and organizational goals.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Proficient in MS Office products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Ability to learn computer applications related to the area of assignment such as payroll, recruitment, registration, advising, etc.
- Ability to take initiative and work with minimal supervision.
- Ability to communicate professionally in a variety of modes including email, texting, written text, and verbal. Able to compose memos, agendas, minutes, presentations, and other related correspondence. Experience with internet-based meeting programs.
- Must demonstrate the ability to problem solve and suggest solutions.
- Must demonstrate strong time management and organizational skills with the ability to prioritize special projects with routine assignments and adapt to change in a busy office.
- Ability to work with confidential/sensitive information.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external customers and collaborate and work effectively as part of a team.
- Proficient in MS Office products including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Regular attendance is an essential job function as it demonstrates dependability toward the performance of job duties
- Ability to take initiative, work independently, and make decisions with minimum direction.
- Must have strong knowledge of division procedures and an advanced level of experience in YC computer applications related to the area of assignment.
Minimum Expectations & Requirements
- Associate degree and two years of responsible office work or combination of education and experience to equal four years of increasingly responsible office/administrative experience.
- Minimum of two years of experience working in a community college/higher education environment.
- Advanced MS Office product knowledge, skills, and practice experience.
- Minimum of one year of project management experience and training
- Advanced knowledge about program requirements and regulatory issues specific to department certificates and degrees.
- Regular attendance is an essential job function as it demonstrates dependability toward the performance of job duties.
Yavapai College offers its full-time employees a comprehensive benefit package:
HEALTH/LIFE BENEFITS

• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance: College's partial payment of premiums toward medical with pharmacy and/or dental plan options picked by employees for themselves (and eligible dependents)
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Pre-tax pay deductions to use for eligible medical or dependent daycare costs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Counseling and referral services for employees and their immediate families for depression, stress, family/marital conflict, and alcohol/drug issues
• Vision: Provides an amount per plan year for eligible expenses such as vision exams, lenses, frames, prescription sunglasses, and contact lenses
• Life Insurance: The College provides Basic Life Insurance coverage at twice of the employee's annual salary. Dependents have automatic coverage of $2,000/spouse and $1,000/per child if enrolled in medical plan.
• Voluntary Individual And Family Term Life Insurance: Additional term life insurance coverage available for employee, spouse and children.
• Other Insurance Coverage: Short Term and Long Term Disability (replacement income insurance), and Workers' Compensation (compensation, medical expenses and death benefits for on-the-job injuries or occupational diseases)

RETIREMENT BENEFITS

• Retirement Benefits: Arizona State Retirement System or Optional Retirement Plan, and Social Security (which provides a basic retirement annuity based on age and years of contribution)
• Tax Deferred Annuities: Employees' contributions to designated tax-deferred annuities
• Unemployment Compensation: Employees who are laid off or terminated may receive benefits in covered wages meet requirements

LEAVE BENEFITS

• Vacation : 15 days of Vacation leave annually. NOTE: For employees who work an amount of contractual days, there will be no earned vacation.
• Sick Leave: 12 days sick leave annually. NOTE: Employees working less than full time or an amount of contractual days will receive a proration of sick leave.
• Personal Leave: Use of up to three personal leave days per year which are charged against accumulated sick leave to take care of items of personal business
• Other Leave: Bereavement leave, Civic Duty Leave (Jury duty, active military duty, military training), and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
• Holidays: 24 days during the year as paid holidays for full-time employees which include Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, 3 days at Thanksgiving, 10 days at Winter/year-end break, Martin Luther King Day, Spring Break, Memorial Day, and Juneteenth.

OTHER BENEFITS

• Spanish Interpreter Incentive Program: Employees interested in additional compensation for their Spanish speaking skills agree to assist YC by attending two recruiting events and being available for Spanish Interpretation needs as they arise. Compensation is added to the employee's regular pay at the rate of $175 per month. Employees that are interested in participating let your HR Business Partner know, so they can schedule you for the ACTFL language proficiency test at the YC testing center.
• Direct Deposit: Paychecks deposited directly into the employee's bank account(s)
• Tuition Waiver: Eligible Full-time Faculty and Staff may enroll up to 6 hours; eligible dependents may enroll in a partial or full program of course work without payment of tuition, exceptions may be lab fees and market based additional fees
• Sabbatical: Faculty, professional and administrative staff may apply for compensated leave of up to a year after six years of continuous service
• Professional Development Opportunities
• Additional Benefits and Services: Bookstore discount, local community discounts to faculty and staff, computer loan program, mail and notary service.