Educational Technology Support Specialist I

Vertex Education; Arizona; On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading pay

Referral bonuses

Unlimited flexible paid time off

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) with 6% employer match

Mentoring and training

Job summary

Vertex Education seeks an Educational Technology Support Specialist I to provide frontline support for student information systems and learning applications used by schools, staff, students, and families.

Tickets arrive via Zendesk with phone and email support; the role focuses on access, rostering, configuration, and general system questions across platforms such as PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Schoology, Clever, and publisher apps.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree in a related field.
• 1+ year providing customer service or help desk support in a ticket-based environment.
• Ability to learn new systems and platforms quickly.
• Strong written and verbal communication; explain technical info to non-technical users.
• Ability to manage multiple requests and priorities during peak times.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and resolve Zendesk tickets from school staff within SLA; communicate clearly to users.
• Assist with workflows across PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Schoology, Clever, and publisher apps.
• Handle data provisioning, roster corrections, and routine reporting under procedures.
• Escalate complex issues and maintain vendor coordination when needed.
• Create and maintain user guides and troubleshoot documentation; support seasonal school operations.

Skills

Customer service

Strong communication

Multitasking

Education

Associate's degree in a related field

Tools

Zendesk

PowerSchool

Infinite Campus

Schoology

Clever

Publisher applications

Job description

Be the one who makes a difference! At Vertex Education we are a team of high achievers, courageous leaders, and passionate believers in changing lives through education. As a purpose-led education services provider, our mission is destined to benefit many and yet it starts with just one person inspired to work together with us to make a memorable and meaningful difference for our clients, schools, students, and communities. Be the one who makes a difference—with us.

The Educational Technology Support Specialist I provides front-line support for the student information systems and learning applications that schools, staff, students, and families rely on every day.

Requests arrive primarily through a shared Zendesk ticket queue, with phone and email support also available to school staff who need it. This role resolves access, rostering, configuration, and general system questions across platforms such as PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Schoology, Clever, and publisher applications, and escalates issues that fall outside established procedures. This is a newly formed team that consolidates support for student information systems and learning applications into a single service function. The Specialist I works from documented procedures and established playbooks, and is expected to build working knowledge across both domains rather than specializing in one. Success in this role looks like tickets resolved quickly and clearly, users who understand what happened and why, and documentation that makes the next occurrence easier to solve.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Ticket Response and Front-Line Resolution: Respond to and resolve tickets in Zendesk from school-based staff, central office users, and other stakeholders within established service-level expectations. Diagnose and resolve common issues across student information systems and learning applications, including user access, permissions, and general system use. Gather complete information at intake — affected users, systems, timing, and steps to reproduce — so issues can be resolved or escalated without repeated back-and-forth. Provide support by phone and email in addition to the ticket queue, walking users through the problem-solving process in real time and documenting the resulting ticket. Communicate status, resolution, and next steps to users in plain, non-technical language. Own assigned tickets through resolution, including follow-up and confirmation with the requester. Apply consistent categorization, tagging, and macros in Zendesk so that support reporting and trend analysis stay accurate.
• Application and Data Support: Assist users with common workflows and configuration questions across PowerSchool, Infinite Campus, Schoology, Clever, publisher applications, and related platforms. Perform routine application administration tasks, including account setup, permission assignment, and application access provisioning. Support CSV imports, roster corrections, standard reporting requests, and routine data review under established procedures. Handle student, staff, and family data in accordance with FERPA, applicable state law, and organizational data privacy requirements.
• Escalation and Vendor Coordination: Recognize when an issue falls outside documented procedures and elevate promptly to the Educational Technology Support Specialist II, the Manager, Student & Family Platforms, or internal technical teams. Open and manage vendor support cases, including documenting 'the issue clearly, tracking progress, and relaying updates to affected users. Retain ownership of escalated tickets, keeping users informed while others work the underlying issue.
• Documentation and Seasonal Operations: Create and maintain user-facing job aids, help center articles, and troubleshooting guides for common issues and workflows in the Zendesk knowledge base. Support recurring school operations including quarter close, grading, report cards, and new school year setup. Identify recurring issues and support trends, and raise them to the team so they can be addressed through documentation or process change. Build and maintain working knowledge across both student information systems and learning applications. Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES:

• Education, Certifications, and Experience: Associate's degree in a related field; job-related experience may substitute for education.
• One or more years providing customer service, help desk, technical support, or application support in a ticket-based environment such as Zendesk, Jira Service Management, Freshservice, or ServiceNow.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new systems and platforms quickly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical information to non-technical users.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent requests and prioritize appropriately during peak operational periods.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience supporting K-12 schools, school operations, or education technology systems. Experience with a student information system such as PowerSchool or Infinite Campus. Experience with a learning management system or learning application such as Schoology, Clever, or a publisher platform. Hands-on experience with Zendesk, including macros, views, and help center content. Familiarity with CSV imports, rostering, standard reporting, or application administration. Experience creating documentation, knowledge base articles, or user support materials.

Behavioral Competencies:

• Customer-service oriented, with patience for users working under time pressure.
• Detail-oriented and thorough in documentation and follow-through.
• Self-motivated and eager to grow across unfamiliar systems.
• Collaborative — shares what they learn rather than holding it individually.
• Ability to multitask with time constraints and organizational/departmental goals.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and with helping build a function that does not yet exist.

BACKGROUND CHECKS:

The incumbent in this position will be required to pass a criminal history background check. Must be able to obtain and hold a valid IVP Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card at all times.

PHYSICAL AND TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS / WORK ENVIRONMENT:

Travel between campuses is required from time to time. This position may require sitting for long periods at times, talking on the phone, standing, kneeling, stooping, and long periods of concentration.

Be excited to be a part of our team and grow your career with us! Be the one who enables us to positively impact over 258,000 students across multiple states while driving our growth forward so we can enrich even more lives. Be the one who helps us achieve excellence for over 226 schools that we support with academics, finance, technology, human resources, communications, marketing, facilities, construction, and food services. Be the one who is a diverse thinker, a team player, a smart risk taker, an innovator, and a difference maker by encouraging others to climb higher and reach farther to further education. Be yourself surrounded by wonderful people who care about you, value your unique skills, and lift you up. Be supported in your work by caring leaders and team members who want you to succeed. Be empowered to make a difference and climb higher and reach farther to change lives through education. Be well in all aspects of your life from your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing to your finances.

Enjoy industry-leading pay, rewards, referral bonuses, with unlimited flexible paid time-off for performance. Be able to care for your health and your family with comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits and invest in your future with 401(k) plans with a 6% employer match on your contributions. Enhance your growth and development with mentoring and money to take training classes. Thrive in a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive environment where we treat others with fairness and respect, celebrate diversity, and elevate equality and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer.

Be the one who makes a difference! With an innovative mind, a hungry heart, and engaging spirit you can change lives through education. Be a part of Vertex Education and let's make a difference together.

Founded in 2007, Vertex Education is committed to changing lives through education by providing academic, business and development services to schools nationwide. At Vertex, three core values form the foundation of how we work with each other -- and our clients. These values are characteristics and qualities we offer to our clients, and to one another as colleagues on our quest to change lives through education. We offer to all projects and relationships the embodiment of these values: Innovative Minds Hungry Hearts Engaging Spirits