Amherst is hiring 5 new staff

[Jay Collier]

Posted today to the CUWebD Ning group.

<http://cuwebd.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1763934%3ATopic%3A21163>

Amherst is hiring 5 new staff members "to support faculty innovations
in teaching and research, take an aggressive approach toward the use
of databases and data-driven applications, and work to support the use
of 21st Century technologies in the life of the College community."

I've requested permission to cross post the listing.

[Jay Collier]

Here's the detailed description, cross-posted by permission of Peter
Schilling.

Amherst College is excited to continue implementing its new vision of
the role and function of information technology throughout the campus
community. With new, re-conceived, and otherwise vacant positions, the
College will expand its web operations, hire new staff to support

faculty innovations in teaching and research, take an aggressive
approach toward the use of databases and data-driven applications, and
work to support the use of 21st Century technologies in the life of
the College community.

<http://www.amherst.edu/>

Our Web Services Group uses the open source Drupal content management
system in a LAMP environment to support all members of the College
community online. We seek two web programmers (grade 21) to join us as
we continue to transition the work and life of the College to this new
environment. (See a discussion of our efforts)

<https://cms.amherst.edu/offices/it/web>
<http://groups.drupal.org/node/10231>

Academic Technology Services will hire a Systems Administrator /
Programmer (grade 22) to help faculty explore innovative technologies
in the service of instruction and/or research.

<https://cms.amherst.edu/offices/it/teaching_research>

Database Services and Advancement Information Services will seek a
highly qualified SQL database administrator (grade 22), a senior SQL
database programmer (grade 21), and a SQL database programmer (grade
20). The College fully appreciates the central role that structured
databases play throughout campus and wants to insure the highest
possible quality and utility for every database and report.

<https://cms.amherst.edu/offices/it/database>

The Systems & Networking Group will fill the new position of Systems
Integrator / Assistant Systems Administrator (grade 21). This position
will help the College to continue working with off-the-shelf, open-
source, and homegrown applications in an integrated fashion.

<https://cms.amherst.edu/offices/it/network/about>

To learn more or to apply, please visit our jobs site and learn about
salary ranges for each grade.

<https://jobs.amherst.edu/>
<https://cms.amherst.edu/offices/human_resources/performance/
salaryranges#40>

[jefbak]

Thanks Jay,
I met David Hamilton who runs the Drupal website at Amherst at
Drupalcon in Boston earlier this year. He has probably made the most
progress using this cms in higher ed.
One of the biggest struggles Smith College has with cms products such
as drupal is on the design side. PHP templating is not as easy as
dreamweaver html so there is a learning curve there.
Also, if you lose your database for any reason you loose your whole
site whereas with individual pages you are fine unless the server goes
down.
So I am still wondering what the best solution is to offer the easiest
way for departments across campus to create and update pages on their
own without disturbing menu and navigation look and feel.
-Jeff