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Senior Educational Technology Administrator

🇺🇸 Troy, AL 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ August 7th, 2026
Camtasia Canvas LMS

Edtech.com's Summary

Troy University is hiring a Senior Educational Technology Administrator. The role involves administering the Canvas Learning Management System to ensure its reliability and performance, providing advanced technical support, managing support requests, and maintaining integrations with various educational technologies. The position also requires developing training materials, maintaining documentation, and supporting system maintenance including evening and weekend work.

Highlights
  • Administers the Canvas LMS ensuring reliability, security, and optimal performance.
  • Troubleshoots and resolves complex Canvas-related issues for faculty, staff, students, and administrators.
  • Manages support requests through the TeamDynamix ticketing system and responds to escalated cases.
  • Creates Canvas organizations for university communications, faculty development, and student engagement.
  • Develops and maintains online training courses for first-time Canvas users.
  • Supports educational technology applications integrated with Canvas (e.g., Turnitin, Respondus, Microsoft Teams, Camtasia, Pearson, McGraw-Hill).
  • Develops and maintains technical documentation, SOPs, user guides, and knowledge base articles.
  • Requires evening and weekend work for technical support, system maintenance, upgrades, and emergency troubleshooting.
  • Minimum qualifications include a bachelor's degree or five years of educational technology support experience, strong troubleshooting and communication skills, and ability to manage multiple tasks.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree and knowledge of higher education instructional technologies and accessibility standards.

Senior Educational Technology Administrator Full Description

Senior Educational Technology Administrator
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 Position Information 
Posting Number  | SF2569P
Position Title  | Senior Educational Technology Administrator
Position Type  | Professional/Salaried
Department  | Information Technology - Troy
Division  | Finance and Administration
Campus  | Troy Online
Work Status  | Full-Time (FT)
Temporary  | No
Location  | Troy - T01
Job Summary  | The Senior Educational Technology Administrator serves as an administrator for the University’s Canvas Learning Management System (LMS), ensuring its reliability, security, availability, and optimal performance to support teaching and learning. This position provides advanced technical support by troubleshooting and resolving complex Canvas-related issues for faculty, staff, students, and administrators while maintaining a high level of customer service in a fast-paced support environment. Manages and resolves support requests through the TeamDynamix ticketing system, responds to escalated support cases referred by Instructure Support, including Canvas chat sessions and institutional support tickets requiring administrative intervention, and performs remote troubleshooting sessions using approved remote support software. This position is responsible for creating Canvas organizations used for university communications, faculty development, student engagement, training initiatives, and other institutional purposes. The Senior Administrator also develops, updates, and maintains online student training courses designed to orient first-time Canvas users and promote successful navigation and utilization of the University’s learning management system.

The Senior Systems Administrator maintains, and supports educational technology applications that integrate with Canvas, including Turnitin Plagiarism Detection, Respondus LockDown Browser and Monitor, Respondus 4.0 Test Bank, NetTutor Online Tutoring, Microsoft Teams, Camtasia, Watermarks’ Student Learning and Licensure and other Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) applications and third-party instructional technologies, such as- Pearson and McGraw-Hill. The position develops and maintains comprehensive technical documentation, standard operating procedures, user guides, and TeamDynamix Knowledge Base articles to support self-service resources and improve the overall user experience.

This position requires evening and weekend work to provide technical support to end users, perform system maintenance, software upgrades, and emergency troubleshooting.

Minimum Qualifications  | 1. Bachelor’s degree in a related field OR Minimum of five years of experience working within an educational technology technical support area2. Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues.3. Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize those tasks effectively4. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create clear technical documentation and knowledge base articles.5. Excellent computer skills6. Ability to work with diverse individuals of various backgrounds
Preferred Qualifications  | 1. Master’s degree preferred
2. Knowledge of higher education instructional technologies, accessibility standards, and online learning environments
3. Skill in installation, trouble-shooting and maintenance of technology hardware and software systems related to learning management systems (LMS)
Will this position require driving (personal vehicle, university vehicle, utility vehicle, or golf cart) in order to perform the job duties?  | No
Work Hours  | Monday-Friday, 8-5
Afternoons and weekends as needed.
List any hazardous conditions or physical demands required by this position  | NA
Does this position have supervisory responsibility?  | No
Posting Date  | 08/05/2026
Closing Date  |
Open Until Filled  | Yes
Special Instructions to Applicants  |
Quick Link  | https://www.troyuniversityjobs.com/postings/48104
Reference Letters
 Reference Letters 
Solicit References Through the System?  | No
Last Day a Reference Provider Can Submit Reference  |
Applicant Special Instructions  | Qualified applications will be made available to the department/committee for review immediately upon submission. We ask that you provide email addresses for your reference providers and please be certain that the email addresses you list are accurate. If you are selected as a candidate for consideration by the department/committee, an instructional email will be sent to your reference providers to ask that they submit a reference letter on your behalf via a link to our reference portal. Separate reference letters will be requested for each position to which you apply (if applicable), so your reference providers will be contacted separately for each application on which you list them. Reference letters will not be copied from one application to another. You can assure your reference providers that our system is secure and that all letters are confidential. If your reference providers have trouble using the reference portal, please advise them to contact [email protected].
Supplemental Questions 
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  1. * How did you hear about this employment opportunity? 
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  2.  Please specify: 
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  3. * Regarding your current employment status, please select one of the following: 
    • Not a current Troy University employee
    • Current part-time Troy employee (including adjunct faculty)
    • Current full-time Troy employee - initial appraisal period complete
    • Current full-time Troy employee - still within initial appraisal period (six months for new employees and three months for promoted employees) 
  4. * Do you have a Bachelor’s degree in a related field, OR a minimum of five years of experience working within an educational technology technical support area? 
    • Yes
    • No
Applicant Documents
Required Documents
  1. Resume
  2. Cover Letter
  3. List of References
Optional Documents
  1. Letter of Reference 1
  2. Unofficial Transcript 1
 - Employment is contingent upon a satisfactory background check.
 - Troy University is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.
 - Troy University participates in eVerify.