Service Desk Analyst II - Goizueta Business School

Discover Your Career at Emory University Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community. Description The Service Desk Analyst II provides front‑line IT support to faculty, staff, and students, independently resolving moderately complex technical issues while ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction. This role plays a key part in incident and knowledge management, service improvement, team collaboration, while maintaining clear, consistent communication. The position also includes hands‑on support for classroom technology and preparation of enterprise‑managed devices to meet the institutional needs of the Goizueta Business School. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Supports faculty, staff and students to maintain customer functionality and satisfaction. Independently resolves most moderately complex IT issues. Recognizes patterns of issues and proposes solutions to prevent issue recurrence and improve efficiencies. Processes customer information and verifies location and equipment through customer relationship management tool. Maintains a strong understanding of IT functions, requirements, policies, procedures and expectations to resolve incidents, meet customer needs and support other Service Desk (SD) staff. Alerts SD management and staff resources to provide rapid responses to incidents, problems and outages. Interacts with customers to collect information, clarify needs and to determine courses of action. Troubleshoots issues and researches issue origins to resolve tickets. Escalates remaining issues to Tier 2 and Tier 3 to ensure customer incidents are resolved. Collects and analyzes SD information and activities to assist with identifying potential service interruption issues. Alerts SD management and service owners to confirm and validate MINs. Communicates issues and resolutions with SD management to clarify next steps and to ensure consistency. Confirms MINs and updates front end telephone announcements to communicate status of affected services. Communicates issue resolutions and MINs to department staff to close out events. Reviews tickets to determine areas for improving SD staff skills. Interacts with SD staff and new hires to provide incident process training and to leverage knowledge management. Shares ideas and insights with SD staff to increase skill levels and to reinforce team dynamics. Identifies knowledge gaps to contribute to Knowledge Base (KB) content. Collaborates with Knowledge Manager to optimize and share KB information with SD staff for creating efficiencies. Performs related responsibilities as assigned. ADDITIONAL JOB RESPONSIBILTIES: Provides in‑person IT support for classroom technology requests and issues as needed. Images and prepares hardware using enterprise management tools (e.g., SCCM, JAMF) to meet faculty and staff technology needs. Troubleshoots technical issues, researches root causes, and identifies recurring patterns to propose solutions that improve service reliability and operational efficiency. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: High school diploma and three years of relevant IT service desk experience, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS: Experience working with technology within higher education. Prior Audio/Visual experience a plus. NOTE: Position tasks are generally required to be performed in‑person at an Emory University location. Remote work from home day options may be granted at department discretion. Emory reserves the right to change remote work status with notice to employee. 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