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UC San Diego

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**Payroll Title**

MARKETING SPEC 2

**Department**

EXTENSION

Hiring Pay Scale

$60,000 - $70,000 / Year

**Worksite**

Hybrid

**Appointment Type**

Career

**Appointment Percent**

100%

**Union**

Uncovered

**Total Openings**

1

**Work Schedule**

Days, 8:00am - 4:30pm , Mon. - Fri.

#139141 Social Media Marketing Specialist

**Filing Deadline: Fri 4/10/2026**

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**UC San Diego values and welcomes people from all backgrounds. If you are interested in being part of our team, possess the needed licensure and certifications, and feel that you have most of the qualifications and/or transferable skills for a job opening, we strongly encourage you to apply.**

~~UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment ~~: Apply by 4/7/26 for consideration with preference for rehire. All layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor.

~~Reassignment Applicants ~~: Eligible Reassignment clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.

**Description**

**DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW**

UC San Diego Division of Extended Studies serves as a catalyst for positive change by advancing global access, equity, and social and economic mobility through educational enrichment across the lifespan.

As a fully self-supporting division under UC San Diego Academic Affairs, Extended Studies operates year-round (12 months of active instruction) with a budget of $50 million annually. A team of 260 academic and staff employees and more than 1,200 instructors fulfill the mission of delivering exceptional educational experiences and services that reflect our standing as part of a top-tier globally renowned public research University.

Extended Studies operates in 110,000 square feet of managed space in our headquarters building, with classrooms, training spaces and key administrative offices adjacent to the UC San Diego campus. The division maintains a robust online learning platform, operating 24/7 with webcasting and video-conferencing capabilities, while also maintaining a strong web presence with e-commerce operating 24/7. There are over 90,000 enrollment transactions annually, supported by a robust network of representatives, agents, and students. Focused on community engagement and enrichment, the division operates two television stations, UCTV and UCSD-TV, and a variety of public lecture programs, while staying active in federal, state, local, and private research and technical assistance programs and activities.

Extended Studies is also responsible for the management and financial, operational, and programming oversight of UC San Diego Park & Market, a 66,000-square-foot, four-story, multi-purpose office building located in the East Village neighborhood of downtown San Diego. Park & Market supports and hosts a wide variety of civic, community, corporate, and campus events, meetings, conferences, and programs.

**Position Overview**

The core responsibility of this role is managing social media marketing and maintaining client relations within the Marketing Department and between our academic partners. This includes managing day-to-day communications on divisional social media channels, coordinating meetings, and representing the marketing department as a front-line staff member. The Social Media Marketing Specialist serves as the liaison between the client and the marketing functions to ensure business needs and goals are being met, with a particular focus on social media outreach. Efforts to ensure success include coordinating, planning, developing, and supporting the execution of social media marketing plans and objectives. This includes coordinating calendars, vendor and third-party partnerships, and developing key messaging points for social media outreach in collaboration with Program Managers and supporting Marketing functions. This role will also be responsible for supporting marketing events, conducting basic marketing research, creating reports, and tracking and managing financial resources.

**This position offers a hybrid (remote/on-site) work arrangement, requiring a minimum of 1 day a week onsite.**

**This position is at Division of Extended Studies’ 8980 Villa La Jolla Dr. location.**

**A cover letter is optional, but strongly encouraged.**

**Qualifications**

- Solid knowledge of marketing principles, concepts, strategies and best practices.

- Solid experience and intimate understanding of traditional, digital, and emerging marketing channels, as well as executing omnichannel marketing campaigns. Demonstrated experience with digital media including social media, blogs, pay-per-click advertising, and search engine optimization. Experience working with Google Ads is a plus.

- Proven excellent copywriting/editing/proofreading skills for promotional material (print and online) and correspondence.

- Demonstrated experience in the development, writing, and presentation of marketing plans, strategies, and tactical performance reports using various marketing channels, principles and practices.

- Demonstrated experience planning and implementing marketing events and trade shows. Familiarity with researching and formulating partnerships with external organizations, professional groups, etc.

- Demonstrated ability in communicating effectively, clearly, accurately, persuasively, and patiently in person, on the phone, and in writing to constituents/clients of various levels and backgrounds.

- Time management skills including the ability to monitor tasks and projects, handle multiple priorities, and make resourceful and creative decisions to ensure deadlines are met.

- Demonstrated experience tracking, reviewing, and reconciling financial data.

- Solid knowledge of institutional products and services.

- Knowledge of the campus and / or medical center including its achievements, mission, vision, goals, objectives and infrastructure.

- Knowledge of customer service standards / procedures.

- Organizational skills and skills in file creation, maintenance and management.

- Written and interpersonal communication skills.

- Demonstrated ability to stay highly organized, efficient, and accurate project updates, and be able to perform multiple tasks for different teams/partners at the same time.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

- Incumbent must be available for occasional evenings / weekends and may be required to attend conferences / programs both locally and out-of-town as requested.

- Background check is required for this position.

-  A cover letter is optional, but strongly encouraged.

~~Pay Transparency Act~~

Annual Full Pay Range: $60,300 - $103,900 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%)

Hourly Equivalent: $28.88 - $49.76

Factors in determining the appropriate compensation for a role include experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The Hiring Pay Scale referenced in the job posting is the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position. The Annual Full Pay Range may be broader than what the University anticipates to pay for this position, based on internal equity, budget, and collective bargaining agreements (when applicable).

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**If employed by the University of California, you will be required to comply with our Policy on Vaccination Programs, which may be amended or revised from time to time. Federal, state, or local public health directives may impose additional requirements.**

To foster the best possible working and learning environment, UC San Diego strives to cultivate a rich and diverse environment, inclusive and supportive of all students, faculty, staff and visitors. For more information, please visit UC San Diego Principles of Community.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

For the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination

UC San Diego is a smoke and tobacco free environment. Please visit smokefree.ucsd.edu for more information.

**Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: ** As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

-  "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies governing employee conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, or discrimination, as defined by the employer. For reference, below are UC’s policies addressing some forms of misconduct:

- UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy

- UC Anti-Discrimination Policy

- Abusive Conduct in the Workplace

Social Media Marketing Specialist - 139141

**Payroll Title**

DATABASE ADM 4

**Department**

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SVCS

Hiring Pay Scale

$108,100 - $110,000 / Year

**Worksite**

Remote

**Appointment Type**

Career

**Appointment Percent**

100%

**Union**

Uncovered

**Total Openings**

1

**Work Schedule**

8 hrs/day

#139008 Senior Database Administrator

**Filing Deadline: Tue 4/14/2026**

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**UC San Diego values and welcomes people from all backgrounds. If you are interested in being part of our team, possess the needed licensure and certifications, and feel that you have most of the qualifications and/or transferable skills for a job opening, we strongly encourage you to apply.**

~~UCSD Layoff from Career Appointment ~~: Apply by 4/10/26 for consideration with preference for rehire. All layoff applicants should contact their Employment Advisor.

~~Reassignment Applicants ~~: Eligible Reassignment clients should contact their Disability Counselor for assistance.

**Description**

**DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW:**

UC San Diego is ranked the 9th best public university in the nation by U.S. News and World Report and is the largest employer based in San Diego County.

Reporting to the VC-CFO, Information Technology Services (ITS) delivers Enterprise information technology services to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) under the leadership of the campus Chief Information Officer (CIO). Information Technology Services (IT Services) uses world-class services and technologies to empower UC San Diego's mission to transform California and the world as a student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public university. As a strategic member of the UC San Diego community, IT Services embraces innovation in their delivery of IT services, infrastructure, applications, and support. IT Services is customer-focused and committed to collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability.

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are core values at UC San Diego and within Information Technology Services. Crafting a culture around these values allows us to more deeply connect with and appreciate our employees, students, and campus partners. Information Technology Services is continuously working to build a community where we all feel safe, empowered, and encouraged to bring our authentic selves to work. We do this not only because it is what’s right, but because we know that diversity drives insight and innovation. We are proud to partner closely UC San Diego’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, as their dedication to this mission helps us all to drive change.

Information Technology Services uses world-class services and technologies to empower UC San Diego's mission to transform California and the world as a student-centered, research-focused, service-oriented public university. As a strategic member of the UC San Diego community, ITS embraces innovation in their delivery of IT services, infrastructure, applications, and support. IT Services is customer-focused and committed to collaboration, continuous improvement, and accountability.

The IT Infrastructure Operations team provides Mainframe, Data Center, Computing Infrastructure, Enterprise Network and Data Management for ITS and the campus community. The group consists of several teams and leaders.

The Data and Integration Services team provide database infrastructure, data movement, data modeling, data transformation, integration platforms, and associated processes to support the enterprise data needs for operational, analytical, and strategic utilization of enterprise and departmental data.

**Position Overview**

The Senior Database Administrator serves as a technical leader responsible for the architecture, implementation, and operational management of enterprise database platforms supporting mission-critical applications across the UC San Diego campus community. This role provides advanced expertise in relational database technologies including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, ensuring the reliability, security, scalability, and performance of systems that support academic, research, and administrative operations.

Working within the Data and Integration Services team, the Senior DBA designs and implements enterprise database solutions across on-premises and cloud environments. The position evaluates business and technical requirements, data models, workload characteristics, and compliance considerations to deliver database architectures that support highly available and resilient systems. This includes selecting and implementing appropriate technologies for high availability, replication, backup and recovery, performance optimization, and disaster recovery.

The incumbent leads initiatives related to database platform engineering and lifecycle management, including system installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning. They establish and maintain database standards, governance practices, and operational procedures to ensure consistent and reliable service delivery across the enterprise database portfolio.

This role partners closely with application development teams, infrastructure engineers, and campus stakeholders to design database architectures that support both existing and emerging applications. The Senior DBA provides guidance on schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and database performance tuning while helping teams adopt best practices for data management and platform reliability.

In addition to technical leadership responsibilities, the position contributes to operational excellence by developing automation, monitoring, and observability capabilities that improve service reliability and efficiency. The Senior DBA also participates in a rotating on-call schedule supporting 24x7 database operations and plays a key role in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts for enterprise data platforms.

**Responsibilities**

-  Design, implement, and maintain enterprise database platforms including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL across on-premises and cloud environments supporting mission-critical applications.

-  Lead database platform engineering activities including installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, backup management, observability, and user access provisioning.

-  Provide production support for enterprise database systems, including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and ensuring systems meet service level agreements.

-  Optimize database performance and reliability through query tuning, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and resource utilization improvements.

-  Develop and implement database automation, monitoring, and operational procedures to improve service reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.

-  Implement database security, backup, and disaster recovery solutions to ensure compliance with institutional standards and protect enterprise data assets.

**Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.

- Advanced experience administering relational database management systems including MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and PostgreSQL in enterprise environments.

- Experience managing databases in both cloud environments (such as AWS RDS) and standalone database infrastructure, including deployment, configuration, maintenance, and backup and recovery.

- Strong expertise in database performance tuning and optimization, including query analysis, indexing strategies, execution plan analysis, and troubleshooting performance bottlenecks.

- Advanced SQL development and tuning skills, including experience with DDL/DML and database programming languages such as PL/SQL or T-SQL.

- Experience supporting database platforms across Linux and Windows environments, including implementing high availability, replication, and disaster recovery strategies.

- Experience using scripting or automation tools such as PowerShell or Python to automate database operations and data management tasks.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

- Job offer is contingent upon satisfactory clearance based on background check results.

- Employee must be available to work evenings and weekends.

- Employee must be available to travel as required.

This position is eligible for full benefits first day of hire:

-  Health/Dental/Vision Insurance.

-  Vacation/holidays (15 vacation days & 13 paid holidays a year).

-  Work/Life Balance.

-  UC Retirement Plan

-  Pet insurance.

**Benefits**

For more information about UCSD Benefits  and Work/Life.

To calculate an approximate value of the UC Total Compensation package, please click: http://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/total-compensation-calculator.php

~~Pay Transparency Act~~

Annual Full Pay Range: $108,100 - $204,900 (will be prorated if the appointment percentage is less than 100%)

Hourly Equivalent: $51.77 - $98.13

Factors in determining the appropriate compensation for a role include experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The Hiring Pay Scale referenced in the job posting is the budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position. The Annual Full Pay Range may be broader than what the University anticipates to pay for this position, based on internal equity, budget, and collective bargaining agreements (when applicable).

Apply Now

**If employed by the University of California, you will be required to comply with our Policy on Vaccination Programs, which may be amended or revised from time to time. Federal, state, or local public health directives may impose additional requirements.**

To foster the best possible working and learning environment, UC San Diego strives to cultivate a rich and diverse environment, inclusive and supportive of all students, faculty, staff and visitors. For more information, please visit UC San Diego Principles of Community.

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

For the University of California’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, please visit: https://policy.ucop.edu/doc/1001004/Anti-Discrimination

UC San Diego is a smoke and tobacco free environment. Please visit smokefree.ucsd.edu for more information.

**Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: ** As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

-  "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies governing employee conduct at the applicant’s previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment, or discrimination, as defined by the employer. For reference, below are UC’s policies addressing some forms of misconduct:

- UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy

- UC Anti-Discrimination Policy

- Abusive Conduct in the Workplace

Senior Database Administrator - 139008

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