Part-time Analyst Jobs in Irvine, CA

Location : Santa Ana, CA

Job Type : Full-Time, 40 hours / week; 12 months / year

Remote Employment : Flexible / Hybrid

Job Number : CL24-01093

Division : DO Educational Services

Department : Information Technology Services

Opening Date : 01 / 17 / 2025

Closing Date : 2 / 21 / 2025 5 : 00 PM Pacific

FLSA : Non-Exempt

Bargaining Unit : California School Employees Association 579

Start Date : Contingent upon the Board of Trustee's approval.

Site : Rancho Santiago Community College District Operations Center

2024 CSEA Annual Salary : Grade 15 : $75,588.23 - $96,480.94

Work Schedule : Monday - Friday, 8 : 00 am - 5 : 00 pm (Position is eligible for 1-day a week work-from-home hybrid schedule, upon approval)

Position Details

About Rancho Santiago Community College District

is one of the most established districts in the state and has been in operation for nearly 50 years. Located in the heart of Orange County, it is one of the largest of California's 72 community college districts, based on the number of credit and non-credit students. RSCCD encompasses 25 percent of Orange County's total area and serves a population of more than 700,000 residents in the communities of Anaheim Hills, Orange, Santa Ana, Villa Park, and portions of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Irvine, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Tustin, and Yorba Linda. The district includes Santiago Canyon College and Santa Ana College, as well as the Centennial and Orange Continuing Education Centers, the Digital Media Center, the Joint Powers Fire Training Center, the Orange County Sheriff's Regional Training Academy, the College and Workforce Preparation Center, and the District Operations Center. RSCCD's three (3) auxiliary Foundations are actively involved in supporting both community and campus programs.

RSCCD's student population is a direct reflection of the diverse communities in the surrounding neighborhoods. As a whole, the district has the honor of serving approximately 55,537 students : 51% Hispanic / Latinx, 20% White, 9% Asian & Filipino, and 2% are African American. RSCCD is a proud Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and serves predominately historically underrepresented students. There is a commitment to foster student centered values among our employees to provide equitable student learning, academic excellence, and workforce development. By delivering high-quality educational programs and student support services, the district ensures that students have the appropriate resources to achieve their goals.

At RSCCD, our mission is to integrate diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, and justice into all aspects of student academics and employee relations. Thus, creating transformational experiences that prepares students and employees to engage in the world with a renewed sense-of-self. Through this commitment, Rancho Santiago Community College District strives to cultivate a learning environment that prioritizes respect, to ensure that RSCCD stakeholders feel valued and supported throughout their academic and professional careers.

About the Position

The ideal candidate will demonstrate cultural competency in serving diverse community college populations, including faculty, management, and students from varied ethnic, racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. This includes those with differing abilities, AB 540 students, DACA recipients, Foreign Residents, VACA participants, and Continuing Education students. They will support RSCCD's mission to promote self-awareness, knowledge, and communication skills, enabling all members of the college community to participate creatively and confidently in an ever-changing world.

Candidates will contribute to an inclusive and collaborative workplace culture that supports the diverse needs of faculty, management, staff, and students. They will effectively provide services and support to individuals with differing academic preparation levels and unique learning or workplace needs, ensuring equitable access and opportunities for success. Candidates should demonstrate cultural competency, sensitivity, equity-mindedness, and a commitment to anti-racism in all interactions and contributions. Through their role, they will empower students to achieve their educational and career goals while promoting a positive and inclusive environment where faculty and management can thrive, fostering creativity, confidence, and lifelong learning throughout the college community.

Class Summary

Under minimum direction, serves as liaison to and performs difficult to complex business and systems analysis of current business practices, processes and workflows in assigned departments or business areas and recommends modifications to facilitate integration with designated enterprise system modules; develops testing and implementation plans for new systems, enhancements and upgrades; ensures compliance with specifications.

Representative Duties

• Acts as technical lead and serves as liaison between functional staff in assigned departments or functional areas and ITS technical staff in the development, implementation and enhancement of designated enterprise systems modules; leads and facilitates the analysis of business processes, practices and work / data flows for improvements and to ensure effective operations using enterprise system ; identifies integration points between modules from a data flow, business process and applications perspective.
• In collaboration with other business and technical staff, analyzes essential functional requirements and develops fit / gap analysis; translates user expectations into technical specifications and customization projects; defines scope and deliverables; develops priorities and time estimates; monitors the project tasks to meet time, quality and resource expectations.
• Develops unit and system test plans; works with functional users to develop test cases and testing approaches; coordinates and evaluates the results of testing processes; reports systems problems and errors to applications developers for correction.
• Tracks and coordinates review of new releases, upgrades and patches; reviews documentation to identify affected modules and processes; identifies impacts of changes and assesses integration issues; verifies compliance of new systems processes with all regulatory requirements; works with power users and technical staff to conduct performance and compliance testing and identify fixes or corrections required; works with technical ITS staff to develop solutions for complex and ambiguous situations; receives and resolves or creates trouble tickets to resolve applications and operational problems.
• Trains users on systems processes specific to business areas; prepares user documentation, written procedures, training guides, manuals and materials for users and support staff; Instructs users on set up and execution of specific processes.
• Using advanced reporting tools (such as SQL, Crystal reports), analyzes, designs and writes specialized queries and custom reports to generate required data and reports on a periodic or ad hoc basis.
• Provides systems support as required; publishes business process documentation to departmental websites, including content management applications; delegates systems support duties to functional users as needed.

Organizational Relationships

This position reports to the designated supervisor or administrator.

Knowledge and Abilities

Knowledge of application programming & database administration; programming principles, procedures, techniques, database concepts and a full range of computers; integrated enterprise- level information systems; principles and techniques of systems design and analysis; transaction processing; principles, practices and language of computer operations; capabilities and limitations of computers and auxiliary equipment; testing and troubleshooting DBA related problems; produce, finalize and check work efficiently; participate in the formulation of long range development plans and in conferences; contribute to the preparation of new computer systems; maintain effective and cooperative working relations with departmental staff, administrators, management and vendors; write clearly and concisely.

Qualifications

Training and Experience

Any combination of training or experience equivalent to a bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business administration, or related field and three years of progressively responsible experience in conducting business process analyses, performing technical user support and testing and related functions for administrative, business or academic systems.

Knowledge and Abilities

Knowledge of application programming & database administration; programming principles, procedures, techniques, database concepts and a full range of computers; integrated enterprise- level information systems; principles and techniques of systems design and analysis; transaction processing; principles, practices and language of computer operations; capabilities and limitations of computers and auxiliary equipment; testing and troubleshooting DBA related problems; produce, finalize and check work efficiently; participate in the formulation of long range development plans and in conferences; contribute to the preparation of new computer systems; maintain effective and cooperative working relations with departmental staff, administrators, management and vendors; write clearly and concisely.

Working Conditions

This position requires ability to use computer workstations throughout the workday.

Additional Qualifications

Candidate must demonstrate clear evidence of sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, ability, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, staff, and the community.

Application Process

To ensure full consideration, all applicants must submit a complete Rancho Santiago Community College District online application that includes the items listed below by the position's closing date. Recruitment will review all applications for completeness, and only complete application packets will be forwarded to the screening committee for further review.

A Complete Application Packet Must Include the Following :

Application Screening

Job announcements will include screening criteria to be used during screening and interviews. This may include, but is not limited to :

Based on the information presented in the application materials, a limited number of candidates with qualifications most pertinent to the position will be invited to participate in the selection process, which may include a written test and an oral interview.

Meeting the position's minimum requirements does not guarantee advancement in the selection process. Candidate qualifications will be assessed to determine those who meet and exceed requirements and are deemed the most competitive in the applicant pool.

Interview

Applicants selected for an interview may be required to take additional tests or assessments and will be notified of such prior to the date of the interview. During the oral session, those selected for interviews will, in addition to the above, also be evaluated on the following factors :

A predetermined set of questions will be asked of all applicants interviewed. Applicants are requested to provide thorough yet concise information on their related experience to ensure the correct evaluation of their qualifications. Evaluation criteria will be applied consistently to all applicants.

Disability Accommodations

Individuals who require reasonable accommodations in the Application or Interviewing Process in accordance with ADA should notify the Recruitment Office in the Human Resources Division at least two days prior to the closing date, by calling (714) 480-7455.

Conditions of Employment

The selected candidate is required to complete the following before employment as part of the onboarding process :

EEO Statement

The Rancho Santiago Community College District (RSCCD) is committed to the concept and principles of staff diversity and equal employment opportunity by prohibiting discrimination based on ethnic group identification, national origin, religion, age, sex, race, color, ancestry, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, gender identity, medical condition (cancer-related or genetic characteristics), marital status, citizenship, or service in the uniformed services, or on the basis of these perceived characteristics or based on association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. Applications from all persons interested in the position are encouraged.

Full-Time Classified Benefits

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Hyatt Legal Plans

MetLife, Auto, Home, and Pet Insurance

Vacation Leave - Days are earned per

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Part-Time Classified Benefits

Permanent employees who work 19 or less hours per week.

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Short-term / Substitute Benefits

Non-permanent temporary employees.