<div><strong>What’s in it for you?</strong><br>• Biola’s Christ-centered and biblically based foundation contributes to Biola’s exceptional work culture and environment.<br>• There is generous medical, dental and vision Insurance coverage for full-time employees<br>• Tuition waiver for full-time employees: 80% or 100%, depending on years of service<br>• Generous employer retirement match<br>• Generous paid time off<br>• Employee discounts inside and outside of the Biola community<br><br></div><div><strong>Want an impactful career? Look no further!<br></strong>Biola University is a nationally ranked Christian university in the heart of Southern California. As a leader in academic quality and innovation, Biola is consistently ranked among the nation’s foremost Christian universities. Biola’s IT department is recognized as a growth engine and a competitive advantage for the university, and offers opportunities to advance the mission of the institution using the latest technologies applied thoughtfully for the benefit of our students and employees.<br><br></div><div><strong>Job Summary</strong></div><div>The Director of IT Services leads the IT Services team composed of hardware and software asset lifecycle management, procurement, and technical services and support. An essential component of this role is serving as the process owner for IT Service Management activity:&nbsp; incident management, problem management, change management, asset management, and service catalog management.</div><div><br>This position serves a critical role by representing IT to the Biola community and providing excellent service to students, faculty, staff, and alumni. This position has administrative responsibility for the strategic design of the IT service management systems and practices.&nbsp;</div><div><br>This position provides technical feedback and insight into managing and supporting Biola’s many backend systems. The Director of IT Services serves as a member of the IT Leadership team, which oversees the technologies and services provided by the IT department.<br><br></div><div><strong>Management Responsibilities</strong></div><ul><li>Engage as a leader in Biola IT through active participation as part of the IT leadership team.</li><li>Develop, build, and manage the Technical Support and Operations teams. Support, coach, and develop team members in their career growth, meeting 1-on-1 with team members regularly.</li><li>Oversee day-to-day issues, act as an escalation point to resolve urgent and/or complex client issues and manage client expectations.</li><li>Coordinate tasks and staff assignments based on established priorities and approved projects to promote efficient operation.</li><li>Organize and lead activities relating to the management and completion of projects.</li><li>Establish goals and performance and accountability measures to ensure the Technical Support, Operations, and</li><li>Instructional Technology teams meet timelines and goals, working within budgetary guidelines, and provide a high level of customer and service delivery.</li><li>Interface with our business partners to understand requirements, set priorities and communicate direction and progress.</li></ul><div><br>&nbsp;<strong>Service Management Responsibilities </strong></div><ul><li>Oversee IT’s incident management and problem management system, receive and record client-reported problems into the IT ticketing system for documenting support procedures and informing the clients when progress is made and the problem is resolved.</li><li>Oversee and ensure problem interpretation, escalation, and resolution from the IT Services teams to IT team and service owners.</li><li>Provide meaningful reporting to ensure IT teams can adjust and improve backend systems.&nbsp;</li><li>Ensure that IT provides excellent service; oversee the timely technical resolution of hardware and software-related problems.</li><li>Provides feedback and insight into supporting Biola’s employee computer systems.&nbsp;</li><li>Oversee and maintain the IT Services policies, procedures, and best practices.</li><li>Consult with Biola departments and recommend appropriate technical solutions to enhance internal business processes and student success.</li></ul><div><strong><br>IT Operations Responsibilities</strong>&nbsp;</div><ul><li>Oversee and manage third-party vendors to implement the asset management strategy, including procurement, support, and disposal.</li><li>Oversee and manage the process for acquiring and maintaining software licenses.</li><li>Manage IT contracts and purchases with the IT&nbsp; and the Finance &amp; Accounting department..&nbsp;</li><li>Oversee and manage IT project labor and materials ordering, tracking, and interdepartmental billing, and ensure the prompt processing of IT-related invoices.</li><li>Perform other duties and projects as assigned.</li><li>Maintain a lifestyle in keeping with sound biblical principles and the University Standards of Conduct.</li></ul><div><strong><br>Qualifications</strong></div><ul><li>Prefer a bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or a related field and 7+ years of experience in the Information Technology field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience leading in IT.&nbsp;</li><li>&nbsp;5+ years of experience working in and with an organization that uses IT service management (ITSM) practices and procedures.&nbsp;</li><li>Demonstrated communication and presentation skills - both written and oral.&nbsp;</li><li>Demonstrated technical staff management and team-building experience.</li><li>Demonstrated leadership experience with a focus on collaborative approaches to problem-solving.</li><li>Project management experience - complex implementations or upgrades involving coordination of multiple vendors or departments.</li><li>Willing to develop in-depth knowledge of IT-supported products, upgrades, patches, services, and product roadmaps.</li><li>Must believe in and demonstrate a lifestyle consistent with Biola’s Doctrinal Statement and Standard of Conduct.</li></ul><div><strong><br>Physical Requirements</strong></div><ul><li>Occasionally lift, carry, push, and pull technology-related equipment that weighs 21-50 pounds.</li><li>Occasionally climb ladders.</li></ul><div><strong><br>Supervisor</strong></div><ul><li>The Director, IT Services is under the supervision of the CIO and works in close cooperation with the rest of the IT department.</li></ul><div><br></div><div><em>This is a full-time, salaried position.</em><br><br></div><div><strong>Hiring Range: </strong>$5,853.00 - 6,678.00 per month</div>

Director, IT Services

<div><strong>The Most Powerful Giving Platform On The Planet.</strong>&nbsp;</div><div>Overflow is the philanthropy platform for today-pairing modern technology with an uncomplicated approach to giving. We are a Series A startup founded in Silicon Valley with an audacious mission to inspire the world to give. We are backed by top-tier VC firms (Uncork, Craft &amp; Village Global) and strategic angels &amp; leaders within organizations like Hubspot, Golden State Warriors, Carta, Lyft, Stripe, &amp; Venmo.&nbsp;</div><div><br>We are addressing a $450B philanthropic market ripe for disruption. Overflow is a B2B SaaS company that unlocks net-new donations for nonprofits solving some of the most pressing problems we face as a civilization. We are working to make generosity frictionless across all asset classes and we are starting with stocks. Some of the top nonprofits in the world trust us and we are positioned to lead the market as a top payments provider. Learn more about why we started this company. &nbsp;</div><div><br><strong>FOUNDING PRINCIPLES</strong>&nbsp;</div><div>Overflow was founded on the Ancient Christian <strong><em>Proverb 11:24 “The world of the generous gets large and larger.”</em></strong> It is teachings similar to this that guides, empowers, and directs our executive leadership team.<br><br><strong>FLOW FAM - OVERFLOW EVERYWHERE</strong>&nbsp;</div><div><em>We endearingly call our team Flow Fam. Launching in 2020, we are a remote hybrid team with major hubs in Silicon Valley, California &amp; Birmingham, Alabama.</em>&nbsp;</div><div><br><em>Moving forward, our hiring focus will be the </em><strong><em>San Francisco - Bay Area</em></strong><em> as we expand our Headquarters and cultivate an in office work culture. Candidates’ willingness to relocate for this role is highly valued.</em> &nbsp;</div><div><br><strong>JOB DESCRIPTION</strong>&nbsp;</div><div>Overflow is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help execute the product roadmap for our Nonprofit Dashboard and Donor Flows products. Your primary objective will be developing backend services that enable nonprofits to facilitate and manage their cash, stock and crypto donations. You will be responsible for working and collaborating closely with other engineers, product and design leads, and cross-functional partners to ensure that your features are delivered on time and bug free.&nbsp;</div><div><br><strong>REPORTS TO</strong>&nbsp;</div><div>Senior Software Engineer - Sachin Kanetkar<br><br><strong>RESPONSIBILITIES</strong>&nbsp;</div><ul><li>Design and create APIs that power our donation and donation management experiences.</li><li>Build infrastructure to handle the full donation lifecycle for hundreds of nonprofits, churches, and charities.</li><li>Improve our Observability so the engineering team can easily understand the behavior and performance of our services in production environments.</li><li>Implement security and data protection solutions to ensure Personal Identifying Information remains safe and secure.</li><li>Develop testing strategies, write unit/functional tests and take ownership of the QA cycle to ensure high code quality.</li><li>Articulate a long term vision for maintaining and scaling our backend systems and the teams running them.</li><li>Become an expert in Overflow’s product, occasionally working with our nonprofit partners and sales team to understand features or customization requirements</li></ul><div>&nbsp;<br><strong>NON NEGOTIABLE QUALIFICATIONS</strong></div><ul><li>Be available for meetings from 9a-6p PST Monday-Friday</li><li>1 business day responsiveness to slack &amp; email</li><li>Alignment to Overflow’s mission to Inspire The World to Give founded on Christian Proverbs 11:24 “The world of the generous gets larger &amp; larger.”</li><li>Agreement with Overflow Values which inspires Overflow Company Culture</li><li>Willingness to travel &amp; participate in in person gatherings</li><li>Commitment to serving the evangelical Christian church space, along side wider 501(c)3 non profit space</li></ul><div><br><strong>DESIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS &amp; APTITUDES</strong></div><ul><li>4+ years of industry experience as a Backend Engineer.</li><li>You have experience designing and implementing data models with both NoSQL and SQL like databases.</li><li>You are proficient in TypeScript and have deep experience building modular APIs and services with NodeJS, Express and other server side frameworks.</li><li>You have strong knowledge of design principles and architecture tradeoffs behind scalable applications.</li><li>You have integrated applications with payment providers like Stripe, Paypal, and Clover.</li><li>You have built or managed user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments.</li><li>You have experience building, deploying and scaling applications with Docker on AWS or other cloud providers.</li><li>You have a thorough understanding of the software development lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing and deployment.</li><li>You have excellent communication skills to clearly articulate design decisions, alternatives, and trade-offs.</li></ul><div><br><strong>TECH STACK</strong></div><ul><li>General Team&nbsp;<ul><li>Slack</li><li>Google Suite</li><li>Notion</li><li>Zoom</li><li>Canva</li><li>Pitch<br><br></li></ul></li><li>Engineering&nbsp;<ul><li>Figma</li><li>GitLab</li><li>MongoDB</li><li>Amazon Web Services</li></ul></li></ul><div><br><strong>BENEFITS OFFERING</strong>&nbsp;</div><div>*<em>These details are for information purposes and are subject to any company policy or plan changes</em>&nbsp;</div><blockquote><ul><li>Medical Health Plan 🏥</li><li>Dental Care Plan 🦷</li><li>120 hours paid time off (PTO) earned on an accrual basis 🏖️</li><li>Company-paid holidays 🎄 🎇 ✝️</li><li>Dependent Care FSA (DCFSA) 👪🏼</li><li>Paid parental leave plans 👩🏼‍🍼👨🏽‍🍼</li><li>Generosity Fund 🎁</li><li>Disney Park Experience 🐭 🏰</li><li>401(k) Plan</li><li>IRL Gatherings</li><li>Mental Health Stipend</li></ul></blockquote>

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

<div>The Digital Marketing Specialist II will provide content direction, ensure growth, and execute with excellence. This position requires a minimum of two years of prior experience and holds a higher level of responsibility to include working independently, some level of decision making and problem-solving, maintaining day to day oversight of the SMS platform, Harvest at Home content direction, developing SMS promotion, oversight of national audience social media accounts, and ensuring proper function of Harvest at Home live player page, social platforms, and SimpleText. In addition to this, the Digital Marketing Specialist II will be responsible for our online discipleship program and our Chat Moderator team, reporting on KPI’s and ensuring growth. The Digital Marketing Specialist II reports directly to the&nbsp; Marketing Supervisor. They serve with integrity, honesty, and knowledge that promotes Harvest’s culture, values, and mission.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><h3>Requirements:</h3><ul><li>Utilize prior digital marketing experience to be able to maintain higher levels of responsibility to meet department objectives.</li><li>&nbsp;Maintains day to day scheduling of all marketing campaigns. Provide content direction of our Harvest at Home calendar, SMS promotion, and social media direction.&nbsp;</li><li>Experience in analytics, interpreting data, review KPI’s and reporting to upper-level management. Using analytics skills to ensure the success of Harvest at Home, SMS, and our social media accounts.&nbsp;</li><li>Provides weekly content direction to Harvest at Home and social media accounts. This person will need to be familiar with Harvest content and brand.&nbsp;</li><li>Proven track record in leading multi-channel digital marketing campaigns from start to finish.&nbsp;</li><li>Oversight of the Harvest at Home moderator team. Moderators are in the front lines of those who just made a profession of faith. Manages the recruiting, pushes for excellence, aligns with Harvest’s doctrine, and ensures all services are covered. &nbsp;</li><li>Strong Christian background, will oversee our online discipleship program. Familiar with Harvest’s content, brand, and doctrine.</li><li>Tracks and analyzes marketing campaigns.</li><li>Created social media campaigns that coincide with Harvest’s national marketing efforts.&nbsp;</li><li>Oversight of Simple Text, provides content direction, determines the frequency, and ensures the growth of our SMS audience.&nbsp;</li><li>Provides general assistance to various marketing campaigns.</li><li>Physical requirements, with or without accommodation, include: prolonged &nbsp; periods of sitting, standing, walking, handling materials, keyboard typing, hand motion, foot motion, looking at a computer screen, and telephone communication</li><li>Duties are not exhaustive and are subject to change at any time.</li><li>Must be 18 years old or older to apply.</li></ul>

Digital Marketing Specialist II - Full Time

<div>The Assistant Project Manager is responsible for supporting the overall success of Harvest Outreach Ministries (HOM) goals and works to support the Senior Project Manager. He or she provides consistent updates in the project management software, processing purchase orders for billing, reconcile credit card transactions, creates agendas and takes notes for meetings, and ensures all projects, requests, and urgencies are addressed in a timely manner. Additionally, the Assistant Project Manager helps maintain brand standards with second-tier copy and asset review and provides other clerical support, such as arranging new meetings, drafting correspondence, and planning travel. He or she serves with integrity, honesty, and knowledge that promotes Harvest’s mission, culture, and values.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Requirements:</strong></div><ul><li>Works closely with Senior Project Manager to identify priorities and monitor project statuses.&nbsp;</li><li>Regularly creates purchase orders as needed for expenses on net terms or credit card.&nbsp;</li><li>Provides and queries for regular project updates to leaders and other team members.</li><li>Manages shared inboxes to ensure all requests, invoices, and other items are attended to in a timely manner.&nbsp;</li><li>Develops constructive and cooperative interdepartmental and vendor relationships and communications.&nbsp;</li><li>Complete forms and requests in accordance with Harvest policies and procedures.</li><li>Drafts meeting agendas, takes notes, and translates actionable items into project management.&nbsp;</li><li>Assist with managing calendars and arranging appointments.</li><li>Provides copy editing and writing where necessary and reviews art assets all according to style guide standards to maintain the Harvest brand.</li><li>Physical requirements, with or without accommodation, include: prolonged periods of sitting, standing, walking, handling materials, keyboard typing, hand motion, foot motion, looking at a computer screen, and telephone communication.</li><li>Duties are not exhaustive and are subject to change at any time.</li><li>Must be 18 years old or older to apply.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Statement of Faith: <br></strong>We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible, authoritative Word of God. Therefore, our ministry emphasizes the exposition of God’s Word from Genesis to Revelation, line upon line, precept upon precept. We believe there is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, and in His personal return in power and glory. We believe that for the salvation of lost and sinful humanity, regeneration by the Holy Spirit is essential and that repentance from sin and acceptance of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior is the only way to come into a relationship with God.</div>

Assistant Project Manager

<div>The Saddleback Communications Team serves as the creative and marketing arm for Saddleback Church. What we do touches every aspect of our church. If you’ve had any experience with Saddleback Church, chances are your first point of exposure was with one of our graphics, marketing campaigns, social media posts, storytelling pieces, and translation work.<br><br>Are you a Lead Designer with a desire to work collaboratively with others to positively impact the world? Do you have a passion for leading artists, designers, and volunteers and orchestrating branding projects and marketing campaigns? Saddleback Church is looking for a <strong>full-time Senior Graphic Designer </strong>to grow with us as we build a learning environment, empower designers and creatives to solve problems, and find meaning and purpose in our work.<strong>&nbsp;<br><br>Your responsibilities</strong></div><ul><li>Devise and deliver creative assets and assist in the implementation of major initiative marketing campaigns.</li><li>Own design projects from conception to launch, optimizing trends, tools, and technical know-how to maximize the impact of project outcomes for wide range of audiences.</li><li>Collaborate with team members and other leaders in defining and communicating the Saddleback brand that reflects and elevates the visual identity and core values of Saddleback Church.</li><li>Leverage opportunities to market content through social media, web, advertisements, and other platforms.</li><li>Ensure the design team meets weekly goals, production deadlines, and aims for optimizing art for usability and aesthetics.<strong>&nbsp;</strong></li></ul><div><strong><br>What you will do</strong></div><ul><li>You will lead, inspire and mentor designers while also recruiting, mobilizing, and training campus volunteer designers and interns.</li><li>You will oversee the development of design elements for custom creative assets and products that support the ministry of Saddleback Church.</li><li>You will plan and coordinate with product and project managers to balance design workload, manage priorities, and stay current on systems and processes.</li><li>You will foster and maintain effective relationships inside and outside the Communications Team.</li><li>You will collaborate with creative, strategic, print, and production teams in developing innovative design solutions from concept to production.</li><li>You will partner with photographers, videographers, storytellers, and other creatives to generate assets that maintain uniformity.</li><li>You will establish and maintain creative parameters and style guides covering use across various mediums including digital, print, and video for use by graphic designers, regional staff, and volunteers.</li><li>You will solve problems quickly to unblock other teams and be ready to tackle special projects, other team needs, research tasks, fact checking, and filling in where requested.<strong>&nbsp;</strong></li></ul><div><strong><br>Who you are</strong></div><ul><li>You have solid leadership experience managing design staff of varying skills and specialties.</li><li>You have earned a B.A. degree and/or have gained 5+ years’ experience in a graphic design-related field.</li><li>You can showcase a solid portfolio showcasing both creative design and art direction, including your past projects and general understanding of graphic design.</li><li>You have a keen eye for visual details and aesthetics.</li><li>You possess technical knowledge and high proficiency in all the creative suite applications.</li><li>You have gained professional knowledge of concept, layout, color, branding, and strategic design plus skills in visual design, information architecture, print standards, color theory and typography.</li><li>You have a collaborative willingness, proven communication skills, an ability to multitask and manage multiple calendar flows, and an optimistic and outgoing approach to working in an entrepreneurial work environment.</li><li>You are an out-of-the-box thinker with an eye to what is coming next and current on industry trends and technology.</li><li>You can work full-time in the office (this is a 100% on-site position, not a hybrid or a remote position).</li></ul><div>&nbsp;<br><strong>Useful to have</strong></div><ul><li>You are familiar with still and video photography.</li><li>You understand Saddleback Church and its culture and values.</li><li>You have some experience in illustration, creative arts, editorial a plus</li></ul><div><br><strong>What we offer<br></strong>You’ll love our highly competitive benefits plans. We offer health plans with employee low deductible medical (EPO and PPO), dental, and vision coverage at no cost to the employee. Family coverage starts as low as $250 per month for full health benefits. You’ll also love our generous holiday and paid time off plans including paid week off between Christmas and New Year’s Day, not to mention 403(b) retirement plan with employer contribution.<br><br>Saddleback Church’s pay philosophy is based on internal and external data for pay equity, along with budgetary considerations for effective stewardship. Starting pay for this position is expected to be $80,000 to $85,000 per year.&nbsp; A wage posted is not a guarantee of a specific wage for a job offer.<br><br>Saddleback Church is both an equal-opportunity employer and a faith-based religious organization.&nbsp; We conduct hiring without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, age, sex, marital status, membership in any labor organization, political ideology, or disability of an otherwise qualified individual. The status of Saddleback Church as an equal opportunity employer does not prevent us from hiring staff based on their religious beliefs so that all employees share the same religious commitment which is central to our mission.</div>

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