IT Support Specialist – UAEU
, * Experience: Bachelor's degree
Job Summary - Design, develop, and support websites and database-driven web applications for Internet and Intranet.
- Design and development of multimedia CDs, courseware, and custom applications.
Duties & Responsibilities - Develop and maintain College websites.
- Develop and maintain College databases.
- Develop and maintain templates, layouts and cascading style sheets.
- Create and collaborate on site concepts and page layouts.
- Make recommendations for improving web development workflow.
- Help establish University web policies and standards.
- Implement effective web-based interfaces with a focus on usability, accessibility, and maintainability.
- Assist in systems design.
- Develop detailed logical flowcharts for application logic.
- Document programs including creation and maintenance of flowcharts, reports, and operator instructions, as well as preparing user documentation.
- Train the users on developed applications.
- Maintain, respect, and protect the confidentiality of information held within, or transferred across, the university’s computer and communication resources.
- Development and integration of in-house applications.
- Support technical needs of conferences.
- Coordinate closely with UITS helpdesk.
- Create and design flash based web pages.
- Develop high quality interactive multimedia standalone applications of course website and multimedia CD’s.
- Other IT related duties as assigned.
Education & Experience - Bachelors Degree required, preferably in Information Technology.
- Four years of web/database development experience.
- Industrial Certifications in Information Technology field preferred.
Required Skills - Solid knowledge in Internet technologies and programming which includes HTML, CSS, XML, SQL, ASP, ASP.NET, VBScript, Visual Basic and JavaScript.
- Good experience in creating database-driven websites and usability testing.
- Good knowledge of RDBMS with focus on SQL.
- Good experience in using development application like Visual Studio.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft scripting languages.
- Good knowledge of W3C standards, current browser technology, and search engines.
- Preferred skills or experience in streaming media technology, graphic designing skills
- Reasonable experience in using graphics/multimedia design software like PhotoShop and Flash.
- Experience defining interface and navigation schemes.
- Knowledge of commonly used operating systems, PC hardware, and software.
- Preferred skills or experience in Help Desk/troubleshooting or similar experience.
About Company United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) is the first and foremost comprehensive national university in the United Arab Emirates. Founded in 1976 by the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, UAEU aspires to become a comprehensive, research-intensive university and currently enrolls approximately 14,000 Emirati and international students. As the UAE's flagship university, UAEU offers a full range of accredited, high-quality graduate and undergraduate programs through nine Colleges: Business and Economics; Education; Engineering; Food and Agriculture; Humanities and Social Sciences; IT; Law; Medicine and Health Sciences; and Science. With a distinguished international faculty, state-of-the art new campus, and full range of student support services, UAEU offers a living-learning environment that is unmatched in the UAE.
