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Northfield Mount Hermon seeks a full-time Educational Systems Manager to provide systems integration and database design support, ensuring the integrity and accessibility of institutional data for the school community.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include assessing, developing, and maintaining software for academic and business information systems, designing data models, performing software maintenance, and managing projects to completion within budget.

Skills: Required skills include knowledge of data transfer techniques, enterprise database management, proficiency with API calls, and strong problem-solving abilities.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include ITIL certification, experience with Technolutions Slate, and familiarity with reporting tools like SSRS and Python, as well as success in software development with .NET technologies.

Location: Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, USA

Compensation: $74000 - $74000 / Annually

Northfield Mount Hermon (NMH) seeks a full-time Senior Systems Analyst to provide systems integration and database design support services to the school community. This position extracts, manipulates, and analyzes information from the Student Information System (SIS), Learning Management System (LMS), Financial Systems, Admissions CRM, and ERP. The Manager is responsible for remaining current in data systems appropriate to the academic and administrative environment to identify solutions the meet the school’s needs. The position is responsible for ensuring the integrity, security, and accessibility of institutional data. The Manager provides system-level support for multi-user operating systems, hardware and software tools, including installation, configuration, maintenance, and support of these systems.

Why NMH:

• Comprehensive insurances, including medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
• A robust 10% 403(b) contribution (with a 3% employee contribution)
• Generous paid time off, including four weeks of annual paid vacation
• Enjoy meals in our dining hall while on duty
• Tuition remission at one of the top high schools in the world for children who meet acceptance requirements

About NMH:

Northfield Mount Hermon, an independent co-educational boarding school located in the beautiful Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts, was founded on the principles of inclusivity and community – values that are as important today as they were at its founding in 1879.

Major Duties:

1. Assess, develop and maintain software supporting academic and business information systems.

2. Design data models using programmatic code and SQL to build responsive information architectures for the academic and operational goals of the school.

3. Evaluate business procedures and requirements to define data processing needs.

4. Extract and organize information for analysis and reporting.

5. Research, plan, install, configure, troubleshoot, maintain and upgrade interfaces to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premise platforms.

6. Create programmatic solutions that facilitate end-user interactions with system data.

7. Assist NMH academic departments, administrative units, and key stakeholders with work-flow improvements using knowledge of possible systems integration.

8. Perform software maintenance and repair tasks as assigned.

9. Manage assigned projects so that they are completed within budgetary limitations and on time; ensure that all internal development and implementations are fully documented.

Required Skills and Qualifications: 

• Knowledge of data transfer techniques, and PC network databases.
• Experience with managing enterprise databases in an academic institution.
• Demonstrated proficiency with API calls between SaaS platforms.
• Ability to plan, implement, test, and troubleshoot system software. 
• Understanding of regulations and best practices related to PII and FERPA data.
• Knowledge of computer security procedures and protocols. 
• Ability to write technical instructions in the use of programs and/or program modifications. 
• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution, preferably in Computer Science, Information Science, Data Science, or a Social Science.

Preferred Qualifications:

• ITIL certification.
• Experience working independently in Technolutions Slate strongly preferred.
• Previous experience with Blackbaud educational and financial platforms.
• Familiarity with SSRS, Python, or PowerBI approaches to programmatic report creation and automation.
• Broad aptitude for large dataset analysis, data visualization, and statistical modeling.
• Proven success developing software using .NET technologies (Visual Basic, MS SQL Server).
• Experience developing pipelines (ELT/ETL) for data warehousing