What I do

During the last academic year, I underwent Grinnell College's salary-review process. While looking through the supporting documents, the Dean of the College discovered that the document that they have on file describing what it is that I'm supposed to be doing for the College dates back to the mid-1980s and doesn't really describe my current position accurately. The Dean asked me to write up a new job description. Here's what I submitted:

My work for the College is evenly divided between two roles: Lecturer in Computer Science and Philosophy, and Manager of the Mathematics Local-Area Network.

As a lecturer, I teach three courses a year and otherwise perform most of the usual duties of a faculty member (since I am untenured, I am ineligible for some such duties), including advising, committee work, and scholarship.

As Manager of the Mathematics Local-Area Network, I support the teaching and research programs of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science by administering the software, computers, and peripheral devices that MathLAN comprises. Specifically, my main duties are:

to select, requisition, install, configure, and upgrade software packages used on MathLAN;
to renew and maintain software licenses and maintenance contracts;
to manage, back up, and restore file systems on MathLAN's common storage devices;
to create, archive, and remove user accounts;
to create passwords and distribute them to users;
to advise ITS in the selection of workstations, printers, and other peripheral devices for MathLAN, and to help ITS to install, configure, and maintain them;
to configure and support network services in MathLAN, including file transfer, e-mail, Web service, remote login, domain-name mapping, user authentication, version control and archiving, database service, and network time service;
to solve or report hardware problems with MathLAN equipment;
to write and revise the documents on the Department's Web site;
to write and revise documentation concerning MathLAN and the computers, peripheral devices, and software packages that it comprises;
to help the Department and ITS set use policies for MathLAN and to document those policies;
to supervise student technical consultants who work in MathLAN labs.