Identity & Access Specialist — IAM & Access Control

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.; Texas City (TX); On-site; USD 566,000 - 678,000; Full time

Job summary

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc. is seeking an Identity and Access Analyst to manage secure access to enterprise systems and applications.

You will administer roles, fulfill access requests, and coordinate with security and IT teams to enforce least-privilege access and policy compliance. This role supports lifecycle tools, SSO, MFA, and Entra ID integration while documenting procedures, reviewing access requirements, and participating in audits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and three (3) years’ working experience related to the Essential Performance Requirements; or any equivalent combination of education and work-related experience
• At least one (1) year of experience supporting access, roles, security, or user administration in an enterprise ERP or comparable higher education administrative systems environment

Responsibilities

• Administers and maintains enterprise application roles, access profiles, role-based access control structures, security objects, and user permissions in accordance with approved business processes and institutional security standards
• Reviews, validates, and fulfills requests for enterprise application access, including provisioning, modification, and deprovisioning activities, ensuring requests are properly authorized, documented, and aligned with approved business processes and least-privilege principles
• Investigates and resolves access issues, security errors, role conflicts, and user access discrepancies in coordination with functional and technical teams
• Supports integration of enterprise application access processes with identity lifecycle tools, Microsoft Entra ID, single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), and other identity and access management (IAM) platforms
• Assists functional offices, Enterprise Applications, Information Security, Compliance, and Data Governance teams by documenting, validating, and periodically reviewing access requirements and related security processes
• Supports periodic access reviews, role recertifications, and security audits by collecting, validating, and documenting access information and assisting with remediation activities
• Documents access procedures, role definitions, approval workflows, exception processes, and audit evidence to support operational consistency, compliance readiness, and audit requirements
• Monitors security metrics, access review findings, service requests, and audit remediation activities; identifies opportunities for process improvements and recommends enhancements to access request workflows, manual provisioning activities, access controls, and service delivery processes

Skills

Identity & access management

Access provisioning

Security policies

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

SSO

MFA

Identity lifecycle tooling

Job description

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc. is seeking an Identity and Access Analyst to manage secure access to enterprise systems and applications.

You will administer roles, fulfill access requests, and coordinate with security and IT teams to enforce least-privilege access and policy compliance. This role supports lifecycle tools, SSO, MFA, and Entra ID integration while documenting procedures, reviewing access requirements, and participating in audits.