Generic Job Description
Media Technician II
Grade C
Representative Duties:
- Oversees and
instructs support staff in the use and operation of media equipment.
- Monitors condition of media equipment and ensures proper working
order. Maintains audiovisual facility. Orders supplies.
- Serves as source of information to faculty, students and support
staff on media production techniques and equipment operation.
- Advises clients on availability of media equipment and schedules
use of equipment. Ensures delivery of equipment.
- May set up and operate media equipment.
- Performs additional functions incidental to media technician activities.
Family: Technical Support
Job Code: 733 Date: 2/89
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.
Yale
University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 733 Media Technician II Grade C
Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in
one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader field
of learning.
Limited acquaintance with University organizational policies and procedures.
Required Skills:
Copies data from standard or easily understandable formats.
Routine use of a major library catalogue or reference database.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical, numerical,
or chronological system.
Screens complex, technical, or specialized literature for referral.
Writes short informal notes, fills out simple forms.
Regular, skilled use of complex machines, responsible for trouble shooting
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 a given source on a personal computer.
Arranges for and coordinates schedules, appointments, projects, conferences,
and major events.
Advises, screens and refers callers and visitors.
Experience, Education
and Formal Training:
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family
at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years
of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination
of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous
processes/methods.
Often coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
Ongoing involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general
matters.
Officially represents someone, whether a supervisor, faculty member, or
the University.
Supervisory Guidelines:
Work may or may not be reviewed.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign, and schedule work jointly.
Instruction provided only in very rare instances.
Independent Judgment:
Established procedures/policies govern many work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by choosing solutions from among several alternatives
that are not necessarily governed by established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility:
Occasionally provides general work guidance or orientation for non-routine
policies/procedures.
Often distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence of Error:
Work affects outside the work unit but rarely outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and only affect
own work.
Working Conditions:
Slight possibility of safety risks.
Regular multiple or conflicting demands, time pressures, deadlines or
emergencies.
Some sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
