Instructional Systems Technician

Chabot Las Positas Community College District; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 84,000 - 88,000; Full time

Job summary

The Chabot College Community College District seeks an Instructional Systems Technician in Hayward, CA. This role installs, operates, and maintains college instructional delivery systems including A/V equipment, projectors, microphones, and related tech, while providing timely support to users.

Under supervision, you will manage maintenance, setup for events, and training on systems; strong knowledge of networking, video, and data projectors is essential to ensure robust instructional delivery

Qualifications

• Education/Training: Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade supplemented by specialized training in electronic technology, computer science, computer technology, or a related field.
• Experience: Two years of increasingly responsible computer or audio/visual equipment maintenance experience.
• License: Possession of an appropriate, valid driver’s license.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, planning, purchase, and installation of instructional delivery systems; provide training on instructional delivery systems.
• Respond to user requests for multimedia hardware and related materials; deliver equipment to classrooms and verify proper operation.
• Perform preventive maintenance on all audio/visual and instructional presentation equipment.
• Install and maintain classroom computers, terminals and related hardware and software; supervise the use, care, and operation of instructional technology equipment.
• Install and maintain multimedia equipment including data/video projectors, audio systems and related controls; adjust data/video network switching systems; maintain the campus video communications systems and network.
• Provide technical support for events and meetings on and off campus; coordinate, schedule, design, install, service, and operate data projectors and live audio during events and meetings.
• Respond to instructor requests for assistance with hardware and software problems on classroom demonstration computers; determine instructor needs and requirements.
• Install, maintain, upgrade and configure video conferencing system software on campus video communication systems; monitor audio and video conference systems and sites including satellite systems.
• Assist in the design, engineering, cabling and installation of mounting hardware in multimedia classrooms.
• Coordinate installation, maintenance, and repair of classroom instructional equipment.
• Prepare and distribute technical tips and advice to instructional equipment users through memos, bulletins, and workshops.
• Update and install patches on instructional computers; perform diagnostic troubleshooting of computer equipment and related peripherals.
• Record events and edit and transfer footage to various media.
• Troubleshoot equipment problems; replace defective components or coordinate with other support personnel for replacement.
• Repair and maintain audio/visual and public address systems and equipment.
• Learn and use new technologies required to remain current in the field.
• Perform related duties as required.

Skills

Operate audiovisual equipment

Troubleshoot computer equipment

Video conferencing systems

Networking fundamentals

Education

Education/Training: Equivalent to twelfth grade with specialized training in electronic tech or related field

Experience: Two years in computer or audiovisual equipment maintenance

Tools

Audio/visual equipment

Data projectors

Video conferencing software

Job description

Job Title:

Instructional Systems Technician

Position Type:

Classified

Position Code:

2CMS24

FTE:

1.0

Pay Rate (or Annual Salary):

$7,539.92 - $7,927.17/month

Job Location:

Chabot College, 25555 Hesperian Blvd., Hayward, CA 94545

Department:

Technology

Job Summary:

The Chabot College Community
Chabot College is committed to educational equity in its academic programs and college services so that students may achieve their personal, educational, and career goals. Our equity work today builds upon a strong history: the Puente and Umoja programs were first created at Chabot College, and have since been replicated across the state. These programs have paved the way for a series of additional educational and student support programs intentionally focused on equity that thrive at Chabot College today. Chabot College is located in Hayward, California, the third most diverse city in the United States. We serve a highly diverse student population and are proud to be designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution. Information about the demographics of our campus community can be found here.
Serving our diverse community requires a culturally-responsive approach that recognizes the myriad strengths and assets that our students bring to the campus community. We do so by promoting a classroom and co-curricular learning environment that is inclusive, collaborative, engaging, and challenging, and where respect, dignity, and integrity are core values. We see students as producers of knowledge, not just consumers of knowledge. We work to reframe inequities as a problem of practice, and view the elimination of inequities as an individual and institutional responsibility.
Joining Our College Community

1. Value and intentionally promote diversity and consciousness of difference
2. Demonstrate cultural humility and an ongoing desire to improve cultural competence
3. Are dedicated to addressing issues of social justice
4. Accept their shared role and responsibility in addressing opportunity and achievement gaps experienced by students
5. Have experience and success in closing student equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices, or are knowledgeable and enthusiastic about implementing practices that achieve these goals
6. Actively seek to identify, disrupt, and remove institutional and/or systemic barriers that adversely impact historically marginalized communities
7. Empower the underrepresented and underserved
8. Foster students’ potential to become global citizens and socially responsible leaders
9. Believe that all people have the right to an education and work environment free from fear, harassment, or discrimination

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking to fill an Instructional Systems Technician for Chabot College in Hayward, California.

Under general supervision, install, operate and maintain all College instructional delivery systems, including audio/visual equipment, projectors, amplifiers, media players, and microphones; provide timely and effective technical support to administrative and instructional users of instructional equipment.

Representative Duties:

1. Assist in the design, planning, purchase, and installation of instructional delivery systems; provide training on instructional delivery systems.
2. Respond to user requests for multimedia hardware and related materials; deliver equipment to classrooms and verify proper operation.
3. Perform preventive maintenance on all audio/visual and instructional presentation equipment.
4. Install and maintain classroom computers, terminals and related hardware and software; supervise the use, care, and operation of instructional technology equipment including computers, projectors, audio/visual equipment, and recording equipment.
5. Install and maintain multimedia equipment including data/video projectors, audio systems and related controls; adjust data/video network switching systems; maintain the campus video communications systems and network.
6. Provide technical support for events and meetings on and off campus; coordinate, schedule, design, install, service, and operate data projectors and live audio during events and meetings.
7. Respond to instructor requests for assistance with hardware and software problems on classroom demonstration computers; determine instructor needs and requirements.
8. Install, maintain, upgrade and configure video conferencing system software on campus video communication systems; monitor audio and video conference systems and sites including satellite systems.
9. Assist in the design, engineering, cabling and installation of mounting hardware in multimedia classrooms.
10. Coordinate installation, maintenance, and repair of classroom instructional equipment.
11. Prepare and distribute technical tips and advice to instructional equipment users through memos, bulletins, and workshops.
12. Order, catalog, and store consumable supplies and repair parts.
13. Update and install patches on instructional computers; perform diagnostic troubleshooting of computer equipment and related peripherals.
14. Assist in planning the procedures for the use of classroom equipment.
15. Record events and edit and transfer footage to various media.
16. Troubleshoot equipment problems; replace defective components or coordinate with other support personnel for replacement.
17. Repair and maintain audio/visual and public address systems and equipment.
18. Learn and use new technologies required to remain current in the field.
19. Perform related duties as required.

Minimum Education and Experience:

Education/Training: Equivalent to the completion of the twelfth grade supplemented by specialized training in electronic technology, computer science, computer technology, or a related field.

Experience: Two years of increasingly responsible computer or audio/visual equipment maintenance experience.

License or Certificate: Possession of an appropriate, valid driver’s license.

Minimum Qualifications:

Knowledge of:

1. Modern technologies and systems for delivering instruction using television transmission, wide band digital transmission over commercial sources, digital and analog satellite systems, and multimedia instructional delivery equipment systems in local and remote access sites.
2. Installation, use and routine maintenance of classroom instructional equipment.
3. Audio/visual equipment specifications.
4. Data communications protocols between equipment components such as video signals, bandwidths and switching signals.
5. Installation and use of television, satellite, videoconferencing and other similar instructional delivery systems.
6. Equipment assets and resources for maximum availability.
7. Computer operating systems and applications commonly used in instructional delivery systems.
8. Video camera and recording techniques and optical lens focal requirements.
9. Video editing systems.
10. Audio mixing and related sound amplification equipment operation.
11. Basic networking principles and practices.
12. Basic website editing techniques.
13. Basic electrical concepts and repair principles.
14. Basic inventory principles.
15. Pertinent federal, state, and local codes, laws, and regulations including media and copyright laws.

Ability to:

1. Operate and troubleshoot a wide variety of instructional audio/visual and computer equipment.
2. Operate office equipment including computers and supporting word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications.
3. Use small hand tools and electronic diagnostic equipment.
4. Apply basic electronic concepts and laws.
5. Apply analog and digital electronic theory.
6. Perform basic networking.
7. Operate public address (PA) equipment.
8. Work independently in the absence of supervision.
9. Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
10. Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
11. Work with and exhibit sensitivity to and understanding of the varied racial, ethnic, cultural, sexual orientation, academic, socio-economic, and disabled populations of community college students.

Job Work Schedule:

40 hours/week, Monday – Friday, 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., hours may vary depending on department needs, occasional daytime and weekends may be required as needed, 12 months/year.

Physical Demands and Working Environment:

Environment:
Work is performed in indoor and outdoor environments, with travel from site to site and exposure to all types of weather and temperature conditions; exposure to electrical energy; work at heights on scaffolding and ladders.

Physical:
Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to walk, stand, and sit for prolonged periods of time; frequently stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, reach, and twist; push, pull, lift, and/or carry moderate to heavy amounts of weights; requires a sense of touch, finger dexterity, gripping with fingers and hands; operate assigned equipment and vehicles; and verbally communicate to exchange information.

EEO Statement:

It is the policy of this District to provide equal opportunity in all areas of employment practices and to assure that there shall be no discrimination against any person on the basis of sex, ancestry, age, marital status, race, religious creed, mental disability, medical condition (including HIV and AIDS), color, national origin, physical disability, family or sexual preference status and other similar factors in compliance with Title IX, Sections 503 and 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, other federal and state non-discrimination regulations, and its own statements of philosophy of objectives. The District encourages the filing of applications by both sexes, ethnic minorities, and the disabled.

Posting Number:

AS861P

Open Date:

10/23/2026

Close Date:

11/13/2026

Open Until Filled:

No

Notification to Applicants:

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District reserves the right to close or not fill any advertised position