
IT Administrator
Common Cause
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington, DC • District of Columbia • Washington • United States
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Salary
💰 $82,400 - $97,850 per year
About the role
- Provide IT support and training for staff
- Provide support to resolve IT questions and issues faced by staff, either through Zendesk, virtually or in-person
- Develop and execute a series of staff-wide trainings to increase staff members’ awareness and understanding of key technical, IT, software, and hardware skills, planning for teammates with different levels of technical knowledge
- Train staff to identify and avoid security risks
- Create and manage a resource center of training materials for staff to access at any time to support their understanding of our IT products
- Write technical support documentation for IT infrastructure and applications
- Manage our Microsoft platform and other software subscriptions
- Manage all Microsoft 365 license subscriptions for Common Cause
- Create and manage all Microsoft groups and permissions for Common Cause staff
- Manage all distributions lists used by the organization
- Manage subscription inventory and provision and deprovision accounts for multiple different platforms used by the organization (Google Workspace, Zoom, WordPress, Action Network, and more)
- Manage and maintain our DNS configurations
- Identify and eliminate security risks in our systems, including recommending, testing and implementing system and security upgrades
- Manage Common Cause’s technology hardware inventory
- Permission and ship new computers and other technology as needed
- Refurbish and reprovision all technology hardware as needed
- Manage computer and hardware inventory
- Set up user accounts, permissions and passwords
- Collaborate on the development of IT Strategy
- Identify the organization's IT needs and analyze business requirements for systems
- Create and implement IT policies and standard processes
- Develop and manage automated workflows across the organization
- Collaborate in the creation and management of the IT Budget
- Other duties as assigned
Requirements
- Have provided technical IT support to staff
- Have led technical trainings for staff members with wide range of technical fluency
- Fluency with Microsoft 365, including experience functioning in Admin Console
- Demonstrated knowledge of IT security best practices
- Familiarity with both PC and Mac operating systems, and ideally experience managing hardware inventory
- Ability to travel 1-2 times per year for team and/or all staff retreats
- Ability to work in-person in our Washington, DC office at least two days per week
- Per our nonpartisan policy, Common Cause staff members may not currently be in elected office (or running for office); on the Steering Committee or Finance Committee for any political candidate; or affiliated with the leadership of a political party
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Hard Skills & Tools
IT supporttechnical trainingIT security best practiceshardware inventory managementautomated workflowstechnical documentationDNS configurationuser account managementMicrosoft 365Google Workspace
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationorganizational skillsproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadershiptraining and developmentanalytical skillsattention to detailcustomer service