Overview and Implementation Discussion Presented By Rod Kelly BS, CCP, EMBA.

Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional

an Emerging Job

Overview and Implementation

Discussion

Presented By Rod Kelly BS, CCP, EMBA

When, What & Why: IT Framework creation• Cross-campus project team of academic and technology professionals• Discovered jobs that were more complex than pure IT professionals

heavily integrated with academic disciplines included direct research or instructional support information technology expertise

• Job matches in the market survey data were not available• Incumbent ‘employee types’ reflected all designations• No consistent job titles, requirements, content, pay opportunities• Strategic Plan for the future was referenced

Who and How: Cross-discipline/campus Task Force developed• Job title series• Job summaries• Market-based pay ranges

DiscoveryAcademic Discipline Specific Technology Professional

2

Internal Survey• Interviewed Managers/Directors in all Colleges and Departments

that evidenced these jobs emerging• Created ADSTP Job Summaries

External Survey to 60 AAU Peer Institutions to benchmark use of, and, job summaries, salary structure, etc• 4 Responses –

2 similar 1 included Principal Investigator;1 matched

“Instructional Learning”, however, at weaker match than ADSTP

• This initiative was pioneering new workforce development ground!

Benchmarking Efforts

3

Assoc

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Specialist

SeniorExpert

Four distinct jobs (responsibilities,requirements, and impact) wereidentified as currently being performed; and given the followingJob titles –

ACADEMIC + DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC+ TECHNOLOGY

Project Team Outcome

4

Located in three job families (clusters)

Providing a Job Title home for those who could fit into more than one cluster

Jobs with

consistent titles, requirements, content, pay opportunities

ADSTP - New Job Title Series

AcademicInstructional Support

Information Technology

Research

5

ADSTP Series Job Summary

6

Job Summary Layout ExampleJOB MUST MEET PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES IN SUPPORT OF ACADEMIC/INSTRUCTIONAL AND/OR RESEARCH EFFORTS AS DEFINED IN JOB SUMMARY

LEVEL ANDRELEVANT

EXPERIENCEKEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

EXPERTISE : KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES IN IT AND/OR ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION MAKING

IMPACT INTERACTIONS DISTINIGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS

MASTERS DEGREE OR DOCTORAL DEGREE IN A RELEVANT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

AND NONE TO SOME

BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN A

RELEVANT NON-IT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

AND

EIGHT YEARS OF RELEVANT

INFORMATION TECHNNOLOGY

EXPERIENCE

Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional (ADSTP) Job Summary

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1. Support faculty and researchers in making effective decisions regarding commercially

available and discipline-specific IT resources during all phases of curriculum development and/or

research projects (e.g. project planning, instructional design, scholarly publishing, research,

text analysis strategies, data collection, data mining, information security, data storage, data

analysis, report generation) and implementation of these decisions. May assist with writing grant

proposals and papers.

2. Develop and maintain discipline-specific digital resources, databases and management systems.

3. Develop applications, data collection strategies and scholarly publishing strategies to meet

instructional and research needs. Design and develop web front and back-ends to efficiently collect, store, manipulate and report research.

4. Perform full IT start-up for new instructional teams, grants, labs. Set up, install and maintain

discipline-specific software.

5. Conduct programming assignments requiring a broad knowledge of programming procedures and

the discipline. Compile data from various software programs with non-standard file formats.

6. Learn how to use the rapidly changing technologies deployed or available for application in the discipline. Create customized IT solutions

required for the instructional design and/or research problem. May serve as guest lecturer

and teach short courses.

1. As the Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional – Associate level, the incumbent is required to have either in-depth understanding of his/her discipline OR significant IT

knowledge, including the full breadth of IT functions.

2. Incumbent must have excellent project management skills and the ability to work with University faculty, IT professionals, students

and other staff.

3. Incumbent must be resourceful and creative. Incumbent is forward-thinking, continuously scanning the global discipline-

specific IT community, and ensuring that faculty and other staff are aware of new technology applications.

4. Incumbent should have or gain in-depth knowledge of the selected discipline as well as information technology and its applications, including multiple communication technologies. Incumbent should have the ability to collaborate with multiple

stakeholders, synthesize needs/requirements and create solutions; provide project-appropriate analysis, design and

programming; provide high performance computing guidance and support; integrate and blend research or data into audio/video

format for collection/storage and expanded purposes.

5. Incumbent should have knowledge of research methodology and/or curriculum design (e.g. scholarly publishing strategies; research or data security regulations as well as laws governing

privacy and security; qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; data mining; linear modeling hierarchy where

applicable; operation and repair of technical equipment; conducting research/experiments.)

6. Examples of discipline-specific skills which may be required include scholarly publication and editing; data/statistical analysis,

hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), data mining, geographical information systems (GIS.)

1. Incumbent will address discipline-specific IT problems and will use knowledge gained through education, experience,

judgment and innovation in creating solutions.

2. Incumbent advises and collaborates with faculty in

decision-making.

3. Incumbent is focused on using IT to optimize the

effectiveness of the research enterprise and/or optimizing

the student learning experience.

4. Incumbent translates instructional and research

requirements into publication, data collection, data integrity

and data storage requirements and facilitates data mining.

1. Results of actions and decisions may impact the

University’s instructional goals and research initiative.

2. Errors may impact the ability of the University to obtain grant and research funding and its

reputation as a teaching university.

1. Interacts with various levels within or outside the University including

Faculty, Principal Investigators, Deans, Directors and Department

heads.

2. Interactions are frequently of two major types: with

faculty/researchers with limited knowledge of information

technology and with information technology professionals with

limited knowledge of the discipline. In either case, the incumbent must

possess highly effective communication skills, flexing

communication to fit the listener’s needs.

3. Incumbent must possess excellent written communication skills as well in order to convey

technical guidance and information to users. Incumbent must carefully

document data practices, for potential inclusion in research

papers and professional journals.

1. This is the journey level for the academic discipline specific professional.

2. This is not an entry-level position; incumbents in these positions typically have already had work experience in the IT field or have had academic

post-doc or research assistant/associate experience.

3. At this level, the incumbent has fully developed knowledge in either IT or the assigned discipline.

o Skills: At the Associate level, incumbent possesses either significant discipline knowledge (as evidenced by Master’s or doctoral degree) or significant IT knowledge and experience (as evidenced by some combination of IT degree and work experience.)

o Level of Work: Applies skills to solve most problems without review.

o Supervision: Performs most work assignments with minimal supervision.

o Interactions: Associate level incumbents interact similarly to Specialist level incumbents, regularly interacting with faculty, information technology professionals, staff, student workers, teams and management.

o Focus: Associate level incumbent regularly uses IT processes, tools and applications for achieving faculty instructional and research goals.

BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

EIGHT YEARS OF NON-IT EXPERIENCE

IN THE RELEVANT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

AND

ACADEMIC DEGREES

AssociateJOB MUST MEET PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES IN SUPPORT OF ACADEMIC/INSTRUCTIONAL AND/OR RESEARCH EFFORTS AS DEFINED IN JOB SUMMARY

Academic Degrees Relevant Experience

MASTERS DEGREE OR DOCTORAL DEGREE

in a relevant academic discipline

NONE TO SOMEAND

BACHELORS DEGREEin a relevant NON-IT academic

discipline

EIGHT YEARS of relevant IT experience

AND

BACHELORS DEGREE in Information Technology

EIGHT YEARSof NON-IT experience in the relevant academic discipline

AND

OR

OR

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Exceptio

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MASTERS DEGREEOR

DOCTORAL DEGREE combining relevant academic

discipline and IT (such as computational mathematics or

medical informatics)

FOUR TO EIGHT YEARS

of relevant experience integrating

both the academic discipline

and Information Technology

MASTERS DEGREEOR

DOCTORAL DEGREE in a relevant academic discipline

OR

AND

9

SpecialistJOB MUST MEET PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES IN SUPPORT OF ACADEMIC/INSTRUCTIONAL AND/OR RESEARCH EFFORTS AS DEFINED IN JOB SUMMARY


GREATER THAN EIGHT YEARS

of relevant experience

Integratingboth

the academic discipline and Information Technology


AND

10

SeniorJOB MUST MEET PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES IN SUPPORT OF ACADEMIC/INSTRUCTIONAL AND/OR RESEARCH EFFORTS AS DEFINED IN JOB SUMMARY


Typically

GREATER THAN FIFTEEN YEARS

of relevant experience

Integratingboth

the academic discipline and Information Technology


AND

11

ExpertJOB MUST MEET PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES IN SUPPORT OF ACADEMIC/INSTRUCTIONAL AND/OR RESEARCH EFFORTS AS DEFINED IN JOB SUMMARY

Identified 22 potential candidates across the campus, evaluated their salaries, developed salary ranges for the four levels

• Benchmarked Professional Research Staff and faculty in School of Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Engineering to test ranges

• Recognized significant and legitimate salary differences between academic disciplines

• Used 150% spread from Lower to Upper References

Recommendation would be to review structure annually and modify ranges and job summaries as necessary

Internal ‘Market’ Pay Ranges

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LOWER THIRD UPPER THIRD

LOWERREFERENCE 33RD 67TH

UPPERREFERENCE

ADSTP - ASSOCIATE $31,429 $47,143 $62,857 $78,571

ADSTP - SPECIALIST $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000

ADSTP - SENIOR $51,429 $77,143 $102,857 $128,571

ADSTP - EXPERT $58,500 $97,500 $136,500 $175,500

MIDDLE THIRDCompetitive RangeUVA JOB TITLE

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ADSTP Series Market-based Pay Ranges

JOB TITLE

ADSTP Series Job Title Series Tools

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LEVEL CAREER CLUSTER UVA JOB TITLE UVA JOB TITLE CODE STAFF TYPE

STAFF TYPE SUB TYPE

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OCCUPATIONAL FAMILY CAREER GROUP ROLE TITLE ROLE

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PAY BAND

PAY BAND MINIMUM

PAY BAND MAXIMUM

LOWER THIRD

MIDDLE THIRDCompetitive Range

UPPER THIRD

LOWERREFERENCE

33RD 67TH

UPPERREFERENCE

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ACADEMIC INSTRUCTIONAL

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SPECIALIST I19211 N/A N/A 4 $ 31,352 $ 64,347 $31,429 $47,143 $62,857 $78,571

II ADSTP - SPECIALIST ADSTP - SPECIALIST - AIS1ITADSTP2



SPECIALIST II19212 N/A N/A 5 $ 40,959 $ 84,062 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000

III ADSTP - SENIOR ADSTP - SENIOR - AIS1ITADSTP3



SPECIALIST III19213 N/A N/A 6 $ 53,510 $ 109,818 $51,429 $77,143 $102,857 $128,571

IV ADSTP - EXPERT ADSTP - EXPERT - AIS1ITADSTP4



MANAGER III19216 N/A N/A 6 $ 53,510 $ 109,818 $58,500 $97,500 $136,500 $175,500

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ADSTP - ASSOCIATE ADSTP - ASSOCIATE - IT1ITADSTP1

UNIVERSITY

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PROFESSIONAL - NON

FACULTY - NON MANA

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3 DOTHER PROFESSION

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ENGINEERING AND

TECHNOLOGY


SPECIALISTINFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST I 39111 N/A N/A 4 $ 31,352 $ 64,347 $31,429 $47,143 $62,857 $78,571

II ADSTP - SPECIALIST ADSTP - SPECIALIST - IT1ITADSTP2


SPECIALIST

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST

II39112 N/A N/A 5 $ 40,959 $ 84,062 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000

III ADSTP - SENIOR ADSTP - SENIOR - IT1ITADSTP3


SPECIALIST


III39113 N/A N/A 6 $ 53,510 $ 109,818 $51,429 $77,143 $102,857 $128,571

IV ADSTP - EXPERT ADSTP - EXPERT - IT1ITADSTP4


SPECIALIST


IV39114 N/A N/A 7 $ 69,907 $ 172,165 $58,500 $97,500 $136,500 $175,500

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RESEARCH

ADSTP - ASSOCIATE ADSTP - ASSOCIATE - RS1ITADSTP1

UNIVERSITY

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- PROFESSIONAL

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FACULTY - NON MANA

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3 DOTHER PROFESSION

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NATURAL RESOURCES

AND APPLIED SCIENCES

LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE SCIENTIST I 59131 N/A N/A 4 $ 31,352 $ 64,347 $31,429 $47,143 $62,857 $78,571

II ADSTP - SPECIALIST ADSTP - SPECIALIST - RS1ITADSTP2

LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE SCIENTIST II 59132 N/A N/A 5 $ 40,959 $ 84,062 $40,000 $60,000 $80,000 $100,000

III ADSTP - SENIOR ADSTP - SENIOR - RS1ITADSTP3

LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE SCIENTIST III 59133 N/A N/A 6 $ 53,510 $ 109,818 $51,429 $77,143 $102,857 $128,571

IV ADSTP - EXPERT ADSTP - EXPERT - RS1ITADSTP4

LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE SCIENTIST MANAGER III 59136 N/A N/A 7 $ 69,907 $ 172,165 $58,500 $97,500 $136,500 $175,500

Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional (ADSTP) Job

LEVE

LACADEMIC DEGREES AND

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIESEXPERTISE : KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES IN IT AND/OR ACADEMIC

DISCIPLINEPROBLEM SOLVING &

DECISION MAKINGIMPACT INTERACTIONS DISTINIGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS

ASSOCIATE

To enter the

ADSTP Job, one or more of the followi

ng statem

ent must

be answered in

the affirma

tive:

MASTERS DEGREE OR DOCTORAL

DEGREE IN A RELEVANT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

ANDNONE TO

SOME

1. Support faculty and researchers in making effective decisions regarding commercially available and discipline-specific IT resources during all phases of curriculum development and/or research projects (e.g. project planning, instructional design, scholarly publishing, research, text analysis strategies, data collection, data mining, information security, data storage, data analysis, report generation) and implementation of these decisions. May assist with writing grant proposals and papers.

2. Develop and maintain discipline-specific digital resources, databases and management systems.

3. Develop applications, data collection strategies and scholarly publishing strategies to meet instructional and research needs. Design and develop web front and back-ends to efficiently collect, store, manipulate and report research.

4. Perform full IT start-up for new instructional teams, grants, labs. Set up, install and maintain discipline-specific software.

5. Conduct programming assignments requiring a broad knowledge of programming procedures and the discipline. Compile data from various software programs with non-standard file formats.

6. Learn how to use the rapidly changing technologies deployed or available for application in the discipline. Create customized IT solutions required for the instructional design and/or research problem. May serve as guest lecturer and teach short courses.

1. As the Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional – Associate level, the incumbent is required to have either in-depth understanding of his/her discipline OR significant IT knowledge, including the full breadth of IT functions.

2. Incumbent must have excellent project management skills and the ability to work with University faculty, IT professionals, students and other staff.

3. Incumbent must be resourceful and creative. Incumbent is forward-thinking, continuously scanning the global discipline-specific IT community, and ensuring that faculty and other staff are aware of new technology applications.

4. Incumbent should have or gain in-depth knowledge of the selected discipline as well as information technology and its applications, including multiple communication technologies. Incumbent should have the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, synthesize needs/requirements and create solutions; provide project-appropriate analysis, design and programming; provide high performance computing guidance and support; integrate and blend research or data into audio/video format for collection/storage and expanded purposes.

5. Incumbent should have knowledge of research methodology and/or curriculum design (e.g. scholarly publishing strategies; research or data security regulations as well as laws governing privacy and security; qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; data mining; linear modeling hierarchy where applicable; operation and repair of technical equipment; conducting research/experiments.)

6. Examples of discipline-specific skills which may be required include scholarly publication and editing; data/statistical analysis, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), data mining, geographical information systems (GIS.)

1. Incumbent will address discipline-specific IT problems and will use knowledge gained through education, experience, judgment and innovation in creating solutions.

2. Incumbent advises and collaborates with faculty in decision-making.

3. Incumbent is focused on using IT to optimize the effectiveness of the research enterprise and/or optimizing the student learning experience.

4. Incumbent translates instructional and research requirements into publication, data collection, data integrity and data storage requirements and facilitates data mining.

1. Results of actions and decisions may impact the University’s instructional goals and research initiative.

2. Errors may impact the ability of the University to obtain grant and research funding and its reputation as a teaching university.

1. Interacts with various levels within or outside the University including Faculty, Principal Investigators, Deans, Directors and Department heads.

2. Interactions are frequently of two major types: with faculty/researchers with limited knowledge of information technology and with information technology professionals with limited knowledge of the discipline. In either case, the incumbent must possess highly effective communication skills, flexing communication to fit the listener’s needs.

3. Incumbent must possess excellent written communication skills as well in order to convey technical guidance and information to users. Incumbent must carefully document data practices, for potential inclusion in research papers and professional journals.

1. This is the journey level for the academic discipline specific professional.

2. This is not an entry-level position; incumbents in these positions typically have already had work experience in the IT field or have had academic post-doc or research assistant/associate experience.

3. At this level, the incumbent has fully developed knowledge in either IT or the assigned discipline.


RELEVANT NON-IT

ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

AND

EIGHT YEARS OF RELEVANT INFORMATION TECHNNOLOGY EXPERIENCE



AND

EIGHT YEARS OF NON-IT

EXPERIENCE IN THE

RELEVANT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE






SPECIALIST

Required Qualifications



AND

FOUR TO EIGHT YEARS OF RELEVANT EXPERIENCE INTEGRATING

BOTH THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

1. Support faculty and researchers in making optimal decisions regarding commercially available and discipline-specific IT resources during all phases of curriculum development and/or research projects (e.g. project planning, instructional design, scholarly publishing, text analysis strategies, data collection, data mining, information security, data storage, data analysis, report generation) and implementation of these decisions. May assist with writing grant proposals and grant reporting, co-author papers, or be named researcher, depending on discipline-specific publication norms.

2. Develop and maintain complex digital resources, discipline-specific databases and management systems.

3. Design and develop applications, data collection strategies and scholarly publishing strategies to meet instructional and research needs. Design and develop web front and back-ends to efficiently collect, store, manipulate and report research.

4. Perform full IT start-up for new instructional teams, grants, labs. Set up, install and maintain complex discipline-specific software.

5. Conduct complex programming assignments requiring advanced knowledge of programming procedures and the discipline. Compile data from various software programs with non-standard file formats.

6. Stay abreast and quickly learn how to use the rapidly changing technologies deployed or available for application in the discipline. Create customized IT solutions required for the instructional design and/or research problem. May manage ADSTPs- Associate level and student workers. May serve as guest lecturer and teach short courses.

1. As the Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional – Specialist level, the incumbent is required to have an in-depth understanding of his/her discipline as well as both deep and wide IT knowledge. IT knowledge is deep in the understanding and experience with discipline-specific applications, data bases and software, and is wide in the knowledge of the full breadth of IT functions.

2. Incumbent must demonstrate an exceptional understanding of the University system, its policies and its operating procedures, as well as the discipline-specific curriculum design and research protocols, relevant grant requirements, and relevant departmental/lab operating procedures. Incumbent must have excellent project management skills and the ability to work with University faculty, IT professionals, students and other staff.

3. Incumbent must be a thought leader, either creating new technology applications or deriving new usages of existing technologies. Incumbent is forward-thinking, continuously scanning the global discipline-specific IT community, and ensuring that faculty and other staff are aware of new technology applications. Incumbent is resourceful.

4. Incumbent should have in-depth knowledge of the selected discipline as well as information technology and its applications, including multiple communication technologies. Incumbent should have the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, synthesize needs/requirements and create solutions; provide project-appropriate analysis, design and programming; provide high performance computing guidance and support; integrate and blend research or data into audio/video format for collection/storage and expanded purposes.

5. Incumbent should have expert knowledge of research methodology and/or curriculum design (e.g. scholarly publishing strategies, research or information security regulations as well as laws governing privacy and security; qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; data mining; linear modeling hierarchy where applicable; operation and repair of technical equipment; conducting research/experiments.)


1. Incumbent will address complex and unprecedented discipline-specific IT problems and will use knowledge gained through education, experience, judgment and innovation in creating solutions.


3. Incumbent is focused on using IT to optimize the effectiveness of the research enterprise and/or optimizing student learning experience.


1. Results of actions and decisions may impact the University’s instructional goals, research initiative, operations or finances.

2. Impact of this position is significant; decisions made affect the ability of faculty to obtain and use high-quality data for instructional purposes, and for the development of solutions to critical issues and problems, often of a global nature.

3. Errors impact the ability of the University to obtain grant and research funding and its reputation as a teaching university.


2. Interactions are frequently of two major types: with faculty/researchers with limited knowledge of information technology and with information technology professionals with limited knowledge of the discipline. In either case, the incumbent must possess the highest level of communication skills, flexing communication to fit the listener’s needs.

3. Incumbent must possess excellent written communication skills as well in order to convey technical guidance and information to users.

4. Incumbent regularly provides guidance to management on critical technology issues.

5. Incumbent must carefully document data practices, for potential inclusion in research papers and professional journals.

6. Incumbent is recognized as expert within and external to the University.

1. This is the advanced level for the academic discipline specific professional, providing a progression as incumbents gain either IT and/or discipline-specific knowledge.

2. At this level, the incumbent has fully developed advanced IT and discipline-specific knowledge, as demonstrated by increasing experience and IT capabilities or additional degrees in the discipline.

3. Incumbent possesses all requirements and skills for Specialist level and has demonstrated proficiency in the typical tasks assigned to Associate level.

OR


DEGREE THAT COMBINES A RELEVANT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE


(such as computational

biology or medical

informatics)

o Skills: Distinguished from Associate level skills in that the Specialist level incumbent has fully developed his/her advanced IT technical skills, discipline-specific knowledge and application of IT to the discipline.

o Level of Work: Distinguished from Associate level work by the unique and innovative IT approaches applied to the discipline. Assignments at Senior level usually require expert level discipline knowledge, as evidenced by a terminal degree in the discipline, as well as expert level knowledge and experience with the discipline-specific IT applications.

o Supervision: Distinguished from Associate level by the complexity of assignments. Specialist level assignments are typically multi-faceted, and require significant coordination and planning by the incumbent. Specialist level incumbents regularly perform long-term and non-routine assignments with limited supervisory intervention. Specialist level incumbents may supervise Associate level incumbents and student workers. Supervision of others is typically not the major focus of the job.

o Interactions: Specialist level incumbents interact similarly to Associate level incumbents, regularly interacting with faculty, information technology professionals, staff, student workers, teams and management.

o Focus: Distinguished from Associate level in that the Specialist level incumbent regularly applies new IT processes, tools and applications to achieve faculty instructional and research goals.

SENIOR


DOCTORAL DEGREE IN AN

ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

AND

GREATER THAN EIGHT YEARS OF RELEVANT

EXPERIENCE INTEGRATING



1. Support faculty and researchers in making optimal decisions regarding commercially available and discipline-specific IT resources during all phases of curriculum development and/or research projects (e.g. project planning, instructional design, scholarly publishing, text analysis strategies, data collection, data mining, information security, data storage, data analysis, report generation) and implementation of these decisions. May write grant proposals, perform grant reporting, author papers, serve as journal editor, or be named researcher, depending on discipline-specific publication norms.

2. Develop and maintain complex digital resources, discipline-specific databases and management systems.

3. Design and develop applications data collection strategies and scholarly publishing strategies to meet instructional and research needs. Design and develop web front and back-ends to efficiently collect, store, manipulate and report research.

4. Perform full IT start-up for new instructional teams, grants, labs. Set up, install and maintain complex discipline-specific software.

5. Conduct complex programming assignments requiring expert knowledge of programming procedures and the discipline. Compile data from various software programs with non-standard file formats.

6. Stay abreast and quickly learn how to use the rapidly changing technologies deployed or available for application in the discipline. Create new technologies for the discipline. Create customized IT solutions required for the instructional design and/or research problem. May manage ADSTPs- Levels 1 and 2, and student workers. May serve as guest lecturer and teach short courses.

1. As the Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional – Senior level, the incumbent is required to have an extensive knowledge and understanding of his/her discipline as well as both deep and wide IT knowledge. IT knowledge is deep in the understanding and experience with discipline-specific applications, data bases and software, and is wide in the knowledge of the full breadth of IT functions.

2. Incumbent must demonstrate an exceptional understanding of the University system, its policies and its operating procedures, as well as the discipline-specific curriculum design and research protocols, relevant grant requirements, and relevant departmental/lab operating procedures. Incumbent must have excellent project management skills and the ability to work with University faculty, IT professionals, students and other staff.


4. Incumbent should have expert knowledge of the selected discipline as well as information technology and its applications, including multiple communication technologies. Incumbent should have the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, synthesize needs/requirements and create solutions; provide project-appropriate analysis, design and programming; provide high performance computing guidance and support; integrate and blend research or data into audio/video format for collection/storage and expanded purposes.

5. Incumbent should have expert knowledge of research methodology and/or curriculum design (e.g. scholarly publishing strategies, research or information security regulations as well as laws governing privacy and security; qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; data mining; linear modeling hierarchy where applicable; operation and repair of technical equipment; conducting research/experiments.)


1. Incumbent will address highly complex and unprecedented discipline-specific IT problems and will use knowledge gained through education, experience, judgment and innovation in creating solutions. Incumbent advises and collaborates with faculty in decision-making.



1. Results of actions and decisions may have a significant impact on the University’s instructional goals, research initiative, operations or finances.

2. Impact of this position is substantial; decisions made affect the ability of faculty to obtain and use high-quality data for instructional purposes, and for the development of solutions to critical issues and problems, often of a global nature.

3. Errors significantly impact the ability of the University to obtain grant and research funding and its reputation as a teaching university.



3. Incumbent must possess excellent written communication skills as well in order to convey technical guidance and information to users.




1. This is highly advanced for the academic discipline specific professional, providing a progression as incumbents gain both IT and discipline-specific knowledge, and learn to combine these areas to create new knowledge. At this level, the incumbent has fully developed advanced IT and discipline-specific knowledge, as demonstrated by increasing experience and IT capabilities and a terminal degree in the discipline.

2. Incumbent possesses all requirements and skills for Senior level and has demonstrated proficiency in the typical tasks assigned to Specialist level.

o Skills: Distinguished from Specialist level skills in that the Senior level incumbent has fully developed his/her advanced IT technical skills, expert-level discipline-specific knowledge and application of IT to the discipline.o Level of Work: Distinguished from Specialist level work by the unique and innovative IT approaches applied to the discipline. Assignments at Senior level usually require expert level discipline knowledge, as evidenced by a terminal degree in the discipline, as well as expert level knowledge and experience with the discipline-specific IT applications. o Supervision: Distinguished from Specialist level by the complexity of assignments. Senior level assignments are typically multi-faceted, unprecedented and require significant coordination and planning by the incumbent. Senior level incumbents regularly perform long-term and non-routine assignments with minimal supervision. Senior level incumbents may supervise Associate level and 2 incumbents and student workers. Supervision of others is typically not the major focus of the job.o Interactions: Senior level incumbents have a broader range of external interactions, responding to questions as an expert in the field, presenting or co-presenting papers, and representing the University in international professional associations. They also regularly interact with faculty, information technology professionals, staff, student workers, teams and management, similar to Associate level and 2 incumbents.o Focus: Distinguished from Specialist level in that the Senior level incumbent regularly creates new IT processes, tools and applications for achieving faculty instructional and research goals.

EXPERT


DOCTORAL DEGREE IN AN

ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

AND

TYPICALLY, GREATER

THAN FIFTEEN YEARS OF RELEVANT

EXPERIENCE INTEGRATING



1. Admission to this level is usually restricted to those employees who demonstrate exceptional creative ability and thus are capable of conducting independent research.

2. The Expert level ADSTP directs a research project or program, may write the protocol, and oversees the scientific, technical and day-to-day management of research.

3. The Expert ADSTP will design or plan an experiment or research activity; specifically, the plan submitted to an IRB for review and to an agency for research support. The protocol includes a description of the research design or methodology to be employed, the eligibility requirements for prospective subjects and controls, the treatment regimen(s), and the proposed methods of analysis that will be performed on the collected data.

4. The Expert ADSTP may manage research efforts which may include other ADSTP and/or research staff or students.

1. As the Expert ADSTP, the incumbent is required to have an expert-level knowledge and understanding of his/her discipline as well as both deep and wide IT knowledge. IT knowledge is deep in the understanding and experience with discipline-specific applications, data bases and software, and is wide in the knowledge of the full breadth of IT functions.

2. Incumbent must demonstrate an exceptional understanding of the University system, its policies and its operating procedures, as well as the discipline-specific curriculum design and research protocols, relevant grant requirements, and relevant departmental/lab operating procedures. Incumbent must have demonstrated expertise with project management and the ability to work with University faculty, IT professionals, students and other staff.


4. Incumbent will have expert knowledge of the selected discipline as well as information technology and its applications, including multiple communication technologies. Incumbent demonstrates the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders, synthesize needs/requirements and create solutions; provide project oversight for appropriate analysis, design and programming; high performance computing guidance and support; integrated and blended research or data into proper format for collection/storage and expanded purposes.

5. In establishing the research protocol, the Expert ADSTP must have expert knowledge of research methodology (e.g. scholarly publishing strategies, research or information security regulations as well as laws governing privacy and security; qualitative and quantitative research methodologies; data mining; linear modeling hierarchy where applicable; operation and repair of technical equipment; conducting research/experiments.)


1. Incumbent will address highly complex and unprecedented discipline-specific IT problems and will use knowledge gained through education, experience, judgment and innovation in creating solutions.




5. Decisions/problem resolutions require complex syntheses and analyses utilizing theories, hypotheses, research data and methodologies.

6. Requires the use of creativity in dealing with unprecedented activities.

1. Results of actions and decisions may have a significant impact on the University’s instructional goals, research initiative, operations or finances.

2. Impact of this position is substantial; decisions made effect the ability of faculty to obtain research funding, and fulfill research obligations and outcomes; use high-quality data for instructional purposes, and for the development of solutions to critical issues and problems, often of a global nature.

3. Errors significantly impact the ability of the University to obtain grant and research funding and its reputation as a teaching university.

1. Interacts with various levels within or outside the University including the Office of the VP for Research, the VP&CIO Officer, faculty, Principal Investigators, IRB staff, Deans, directors, departmental staff, sponsors and other regulatory authorities.


3. Incumbent must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills in order to convey technical guidance and information to users, sponsors, internal and external colleagues, as well as others involved in the research efforts.




1. They are distinguished from Research Faculty in that they (a) are not expected to provide formal guidance to students or otherwise participate in the instructional program, and (b) are not considered members of the Teaching & Research faculty.

2. As this is the highest professional level for the ADSTP job, the incumbent will have expert knowledge of the selected discipline(s), as well as, information technology and its applications, including multiple communication technologies.

3. The Expert ADSTP is the only level of this job that can officially operate as a Principal Investigator for research protocol.

Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional (ADSTP) Job Summary

LEVEL

ACADEMIC DEGREES AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

EXPERTISE : KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES IN IT AND/OR ACADEMIC

DISCIPLINE

PROBLEM SOLVING & DECISION

MAKINGIMPACT INTERACTIONS DISTINIGUISHING

CHARACTERISTICS

ASSOCIATE

To enter the

ADSTP

Job, one or

more of the following statement must

be answered

in the affirmative:



AND NONE TO SOME

1. Support faculty and researchers in making effective decisions

regarding commercially available and discipline-specific IT

resources during all phases of curriculum development and/or research projects (e.g. project planning, instructional design,

scholarly publishing, research, text analysis strategies, data collection, data mining, information security, data storage, data analysis, report generation) and implementation of these decisions. May assist with

writing grant proposals and papers.

2. Develop and maintain discipline-specific digital resources,

databases and management systems.

3. Develop applications, data collection strategies and scholarly

publishing strategies to meet instructional and research needs. Design and develop web front and

back-ends to efficiently collect, store, manipulate and report

research.

4. Perform full IT start-up for new instructional teams, grants, labs.

Set up, install and maintain discipline-specific software.

5. Conduct programming assignments requiring a broad

knowledge of programming procedures and the discipline.

Compile data from various software programs with non-

standard file formats.

6. Learn how to use the rapidly changing technologies deployed or

available for application in the discipline. Create customized IT

solutions required for the instructional design and/or

research problem. May serve as guest lecturer and teach short

courses.

1. As the Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional – Associate level, the incumbent is required to have either in-

depth understanding of his/her discipline OR significant IT knowledge, including the full

breadth of IT functions.

2. Incumbent must have excellent project management skills and the ability to work with University faculty, IT professionals,

students and other staff.

3. Incumbent must be resourceful and creative. Incumbent is forward-thinking,

continuously scanning the global discipline-specific IT community, and ensuring that faculty and other staff are aware of new

technology applications.

4. Incumbent should have or gain in-depth knowledge of the selected discipline as well

as information technology and its applications, including multiple

communication technologies. Incumbent should have the ability to collaborate with

multiple stakeholders, synthesize needs/requirements and create solutions;

provide project-appropriate analysis, design and programming; provide high performance computing guidance and support; integrate and blend research or data into audio/video format for collection/storage and expanded

purposes.

5. Incumbent should have knowledge of research methodology and/or curriculum

design (e.g. scholarly publishing strategies; research or data security regulations as well

as laws governing privacy and security; qualitative and quantitative research

methodologies; data mining; linear modeling hierarchy where applicable; operation and repair of technical equipment; conducting

research/experiments.)

6. Examples of discipline-specific skills which may be required include scholarly publication and editing; data/statistical

analysis, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), data mining, geographical information

systems (GIS.)

1. Incumbent will address discipline-

specific IT problems and will use

knowledge gained through education,

experience, judgment and innovation in

creating solutions.

2. Incumbent advises and collaborates with

faculty in decision-making.

3. Incumbent is focused on using IT to

optimize the effectiveness of the research enterprise and/or optimizing the

student learning experience.

4. Incumbent translates

instructional and research

requirements into publication, data collection, data

integrity and data storage requirements and facilitates data

mining.

1. Results of actions and decisions may

impact the University’s

instructional goals and research

initiative.

2. Errors may impact the ability of the

University to obtain grant and research

funding and its reputation as a

teaching university.

1. Interacts with various levels within or outside the University including

Faculty, Principal Investigators, Deans,

Directors and Department heads.

2. Interactions are frequently of two major

types: with faculty/researchers with

limited knowledge of information technology

and with information technology professionals with limited knowledge

of the discipline. In either case, the

incumbent must possess highly effective

communication skills, flexing communication to fit the listener’s needs.

3. Incumbent must possess excellent

written communication skills as well in order to

convey technical guidance and

information to users. Incumbent must

carefully document data practices, for potential inclusion in research

papers and professional journals.

1. This is the journey level for the academic discipline specific

professional.

2. This is not an entry-level position; incumbents in these

positions typically have already had work experience in the IT field or have had academic post-doc or

research assistant/associate experience.

3. At this level, the incumbent has fully developed knowledge in

either IT or the assigned discipline.


RELEVANT NON-IT

ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

AND

EIGHT YEARS OF RELEVANT INFORMATION TECHNNOLOGY EXPERIENCE



AND

EIGHT YEARS OF NON-IT

EXPERIENCE IN THE

RELEVANT ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE






YESDEEP INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE?

YES YESRESPONSIBLE FOR

PROTOCAL AND RESEARCH

INITIATIVES?YES

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YESDOCTORAL DEGREE IN

RELEVANT DISCIPLINE?

NOT ADSTP YES

INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY AND

ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE?

NOT ADSTP

NO

NODEEP INFORMATION

TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE?

YESDEMONSTRATED

EXPERIENCIAL REQUIREMENTS?

YESINTEGRATE

TECHNOLOGY AND ACADEMIC

DISCIPLINE?YES

MASTERS DEGREE IN RELEVANT

DISCIPLINE?EXPERT

PhD Rqd

SENIOR

PhD Rqd

YESMasters / No PhD

SPECIALIST

Masters / No PhD

ASSOCIATE YESINTEGRATE


DISCIPLINE?YES

NODOCTORAL DEGREE IN

RELEVANT DISCIPLINE?

NOT ADSTP

YESINTEGRATE


DISCIPLINE?

NOT ADSTP

NOT ADSTP

NOT ADSTP

YES

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Coding Matrix for Enterprise and Jobs Systems

Master Job Summary Matrix

Job Summary

Decision Tool

ADSTP Series Web location of IT Framework

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Academic &

Information Technology

Communities

Deans’ Technology Council

LeadershipProvost/

Research/CIO

Human Resources

ADSTP Series Roll-out Recommendation

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Discussion

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Concerns

Thoughts

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Academic Discipline Specific Technology

Professional Thanks to…

Deans Technology CouncilBob CampbellMarty DohertyVirginia EvansMark HamptonRod KellyValerie LarsenMark EarlDebra MincarelliMitchell RosenRobin RuggaberAl SapienzaMartha SitesThomas SpragginsAron TeelRayson TibbsMichael TimminsJames HiltonTom SkalakAnda WebbJeff BlankJohn TeahanMichael McPhersonDeans Technology CouncilBob CampbellMarty DohertyVirginia EvansMark HamptonRod KellyValerie LarsenMark EarlDebra MincarelliMitchell RosenRobin RuggaberAl SapienzaMartha SitesThomas SpragginsAron TeelRayson TibbsMichael TimminsJames HiltonTom SkalakAnda WebbJeff BlankJohn TeahanMichael McPhersonDeans Technology CouncilBob CampbellMarty DohertyVirginia EvansMark HamptonRod KellyValerie LarsenMark EarlDebra MincarelliMitchell RosenRobin RuggaberAl SapienzaMartha SitesThomas SpragginsAron TeelRayson TibbsMichael TimminsJames HiltonTom SkalakAnda WebbJeff BlankJohn TeahanMichael McPhersonDeans Technology CouncilBob CampbellMarty DohertyVirginia EvansMark HamptonRod KellyValerie LarsenMark EarlDebra MincarelliMitchell RosenRobin RuggaberAl SapienzaMartha SitesThomas SpragginsAron TeelRayson TibbsMichael Timmins

Academic Discipline Specific Technology Professional

an Emerging Job

Overview and Implementation DiscussionThank You!Presented By

Rod Kelly BS, CCP, EMBA

Overview and Implementation Discussion Presented By Rod Kelly BS, CCP, EMBA.

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