Network Specialist

Barstow Community College

Salary: $6,624.80 - $8,555.73 Monthly

Location: MAIN CAMPUS - 2700 BARSTOW ROAD, BARSTOW, CA

Job Type: FULL TIME

Job Number:

Department: ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

Division: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Opening Date: 09/29/2026

Closing Date: 10/13/2026

FLSA: Non-Exempt

Bargaining Unit: CL

Barstow Community College is an open-access, comprehensive two-year institution serving a diverse student population in the Mojave region of San Bernardino County, California. The College's campus is located in the City of Barstow, California, situated in California's high desert, between Los Angeles, California and Las Vegas, Nevada.

Established in 1959, the Barstow Community College District (BCCD) encompasses a vast service area, stretching from the Nevada border on the East to Kern County on the West, and from Inyo County in the North to the San Bernardino Mountain range in the South. BCCD serves the communities of Barstow, Lenwood, Newberry Springs, Daggett, Yermo, Hinkley, Ludlow and Baker. The institution also maintains a satellite learning center at the U.S. Army National Training Center in Ft.

Irwin, California, which serves military personnel and their families.

Barstow Community College is committed to providing an equitable, accessible, and affordable education to its diverse student body, including local, military, distance education, and historically marginalized student populations. Through a variety of high-quality and comprehensive degree, certificate, and job skills training programs, we provide holistic student support with clear and diverse educational pathways that provide students with life-long learning and networking opportunities, critical thinking skills, and success in a globalized world.

Barstow Community College serves as a hub of innovation and educational excellence, fostering a culture of growth, partnership, and inclusion as the premier college of the California High Desert.

This position requires regular on-site attendance to support and maintain campus technology infrastructure, systems, and end-user services.

Under the direction of an assigned supervisor, the Network Specialist plans, administers, and maintains all components of the local area and wide area networks governing the data communications among personal computers. This includes computer networks, mail and note systems, and telecommunications for computers and servers. Plans and designs the implementation of the network infrastructure including hardware/software recommendations. Oversees technical support and help functions that relate to networks, security, redundancy, and connectivity.

• The following duties are typical for this classification.
• Designs computer networks that integrate data communications to, from, and within the College. Develops specifications and functional requirements for networks including those for administrative and institutional use.
• Administers, implements, and maintains the network including operations planning and design, work order generation, moves, adds, changes, fault prediction, trouble detection/correction, traffic measurement, circuit analysis, path testing, and general maintenance.
• Directs and configures, installs, and maintains directory structures, security, and applications software. Survey users to determine the common applications and variety of software.
• Perform a variety of functions related to the development, implementation and maintenance of district non- instructional web sites.
• Coordinates, installs, and configures all network users, e.g., computers, printers, modems, cabling, peripheral communications equipment, servers, routers, and hubs.
• Coordinates, allocates, and monitors memory usage of the network, network…