Washington State University

IT Customer Support-Journey

Washington State University$74K — $99K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of hands-on experience in IT customer support and troubleshooting.
  • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and learning management systems.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills essential for faculty and staff interaction.
  • Strong organizational and time management skills for handling multiple tasks.
  • Experience with both PC and Mac systems, particularly in diagnosing issues.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze and resolve complex technology issues for various users across multiple campuses.
  • Provide training on hardware and software usage proactively and upon request.
  • Collaborate with IT teams to ensure data and system security compliance.
  • Support specialized environments with tailored support approaches and solutions.
  • Facilitate employee and lab move processes across the college.

Benefits

  • Paid sick and vacation leave, including paid holidays.
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, life and disability insurance for employees and dependents.
  • Generous retirement plans and deferred compensation options.
  • Training and development opportunities available.
  • Employee tuition waiver for further education.
Full Job Description
Online applications must be received before 11:59pm on:
August 30, 2026
If a date is not listed above, review the Applicant Instructions below for more details.

Available Title(s):
483CS-YN_CS_NPS - IT Customer Support - Journey

Business Title:
IT Customer Support-Journey

Employee Type:
Classified

Position Details:

The Opportunity:

Under general direction of the Director of Information Technology and Data Strategy, the IT Customer Support - Journey position serves as the College of Medicine's primary technical resource for customer-facing endpoint technologies and specialized support environments. In this position, you will independently analyze, diagnose, and resolve complex technology issues affecting faculty, staff, students, researchers, and distributed clinical education programs located throughout Washington State. Work requires advanced technical expertise, independent judgment, and the ability to develop and implement solutions within a highly diverse technology environment that includes research laboratories, simulation centers, medical education spaces, regional campuses, and administrative offices.

In this position, you will perform general and technical support, troubleshooting, programming, installation, systems maintenance, and/or systems support. Additionally, you will collaborate with the Office of IT and Data Strategy to ensure the security of the institute's data and systems and to consistently provide technical assistance to faculty, staff, and students. The purpose of your role is to ensure continuity of operations, maintain productivity, and provide clear guidance on priorities, points of contact, and expectations. As the IT Customer Support-Journey, you will also provide training on use of hardware and software, both proactively and upon request. You will facilitate employee and laboratory move processes across the college as well as maintain in-depth knowledge of WSU and ESFCOM policies to ensures all actions are in alignment with policy and procedure. You will provide education to customers when required.

Additionally, you will provide support to highly specialized environments where standard university desktop support practices must be adapted to accommodate research instrumentation, simulation technologies, discipline-specific software, clinical education requirements, and distributed learning environments. This role requires advanced knowledge of interoperability between hardware, operating systems, network resources, security requirements, and specialized applications.

Essential Job Functions:

50% Technical Customer Support and Delivery

35% IT Project Management

10% Training and Documentation

5% Other

Additional Information:

This is a full time (100% FTE), permanent position. This position is overtime eligible.

Monthly Salary: $6,189 to $8,327 (Steps A-M) | Range 03IT | Successful candidates are typically hired at the beginning of the salary range and receive scheduled salary increment increases in accordance with WAC 357-28.

In accordance with RCW 49.58.110, the above salary reflects the full salary range for this position. Individual placement within the range is based on the candidate's current experience, education, skills, and abilities related to the position.

Benefits: WSU offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes paid sick and vacation leave; paid holidays; medical, dental, life and disability insurance package for employees and dependents; retirement; deferred compensation, optional supplemental retirement accounts; training and development; and employee tuition waiver. For additional information, please review the detailed Summary of Benefits offered by WSU for Classified Staff and Total Compensation.

Required Qualifications:
  • Advanced knowledge and experience using Microsoft Office products and learning management systems. Experience analyzing, installing, maintaining computer software applications, hardware, or telecommunications or network infra-structure equipment, or providing customer or technical support in information technology.
  • Six to eight years of experience analyzing, installing, configuring, and/or maintaining computer software applications and equipment.
  • Experience troubleshooting and resolving network issues in a TCP/IP based Local Area Network (LAN) and Wireless LAN environments.
  • Advanced knowledge and experience diagnosing and resolving technical issues on PC and Mac systems.
  • Experience with desktop computer PC and Mac.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong time management and organizational skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks at once with great attention to detail and thoroughness.
  • Ability to work in a team environment.
  • Working knowledge with IT help desk/customer service software applications.
  • Excellent customer service experience.
  • Experience providing technical support utilizing video-sharing technology


Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience supporting applications such as Slack, Zoom, Panopto, Workday, and learning management systems.
  • Demonstrated experience with system development life cycle and project management principles.
  • Skills performing system analysis and design in an information technology environment.
  • Experience with business intelligence and analysis.
  • Experience testing, implementing, administering, and providing technical support for educational applications.
  • Experience with videoconferencing production equipment.


Position Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for work visa sponsorship

Area/College: Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
Department Name: Office of Information Technology and Data Strategy
Location: Spokane, WA

Application Instructions: Applicants must upload the following required documents to their online application. Application materials should clearly communicate how the applicant meets all required qualifications and additional requirements.

1) Resume
2) Cover Letter

External candidates, upload all documents in the "Application Document" section of your application.
Current WSU Employees (internal candidates), before starting your Workday application, please use these instructions to update your education and experience in your worker profile in Workday. Internal candidates, upload all documents in the "Resume/Cover Letter" section of your application.

Documents may be submitted as one file or separate files. Applicants are encouraged to upload as a PDF, if possible.

Reference contact information will be requested later in the recruitment process through Workday.

Background Check: This position has been designated by the department to require a background check because it requires access to children or vulnerable adults as defined by RCW 74.34, engages in law enforcement, requires security clearance, interacts with WSU students in a counseling or advising capacity, has access to personal identifying and/or financial information, unsupervised access to university buildings/property, or other business-related need. A background check will not be completed until an initial determination of qualification for employment has been made.

Time Type:
Full time

Position Term:
12 Month

About Washington State University

Washington State University is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant universities in the American West. With an undergraduate enrollment of 24,278 and a total enrollment of 28,581, it is the second largest institution for higher education in Washington state behind the University of Washington. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The WSU Pullman campus stands on a hill and is characterized by open spaces and a red brick and basalt material palette—materials originally found on site. The university sits within the rolling topography of the Palouse in rural eastern Washington and remains closely connected to the town and the region. The university also operates campuses across Washington at WSU Spokane, WSU Tri-Cities, and WSU Vancouver, all founded in 1989. In 2012, WSU launched an Internet-based Global Campus, which includes its online degree program, WSU Online. In 2015, WSU expanded to a sixth campus at WSU Everett. These campuses award primarily bachelor's and master's degrees. Freshmen and sophomores were first admitted to the Vancouver campus in 2006 and to the Tri-Cities campus in 2007. WSU's athletic teams are called the Cougars and the school colors are crimson and gray. Six men's and nine women's varsity teams compete in NCAA Division I in the Pac-12 Conference. Both men's and women's indoor track teams compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.
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