About us

Androgogic is a leading provider of Educational Technology infrastructure and services, specialising in open source software. We are a growing company and have won 8 out of the last 10 Totara APAC Top Performer awards, including in 2025.

We work with our clients as partners to design and implement flexible, robust and reliable Learning Management Systems (LMSs) and other educational technology applications such as xAPI, LXPs, TXPs, LCMSs, virtual classrooms, social learning and ePortfolio systems. We also work on our own internal management systems and automation scripting frameworks.

Androgogic fosters a distributed, collegial team where accomplished and committed individuals work in a flat structure, contributing their specialist skills and knowledge to create quality outcomes for our client-partners.

Our people enjoy the flexibility of working remotely while developing close interpersonal relationships. We employ people who deeply care about the happiness and well being of our client-partners, the systems they support and each other, and who are intrinsically motivated to do things well because of the challenge and the satisfaction. We are a very stable team with low turnover. Fairness and diversity are Androgogic core values.

The role

The role is as a Service Desk Technician with a development pathway to work within our client engagement unit.

This is a permanent part time (20hrs/week), work from home technical support position with the Androgogic Professional Services Team. In addition to frontline technical support, the successful applicant will over time develop and increase their client partner engagement skills and responsibilities such as business analysis, user and learner experience design, site configuration, project and account management.

The technical support component of this role requires working with Androgogic client-partners and other Androgogic staff via phone, web and email to provide first class support to clients for online learning and other educational technology applications and services provided by Androgogic. You will also receive mentoring from a Senior Educational Technologist.

You must have good availability during the opening hours of the service desk (currently Monday - Friday 8am-7pm in winter (i.e. AEST) and 8am-8pm in summer (i.e. ADST)) and 10-2pm on NSW public holidays. We are however prepared to work around your study load or childcare responsibilities such as school pick up, and timing of some of the non-rostered work will also be at your discretion.

The position specifically involves:

All aspects of technical support to deployed applications working closely with Androgogic client-partners and the broader Androgogic team, specifically frontline support: triage (initial response), investigation and resolution of support tickets within service level timeframes and taking phone calls

Membership in the Professional Services team with the related exercise of technical expertise within the realm of Androgogic technologies and deployed applications including e.g. the Totara LXP, Alfresco LCMS and Moodle LMS amongst others

Working closely with a Senior Educational Technologist to develop expertise relating to user learning experience and assisting as directed in areas such as:

Reviewing existing LMS sites and learning content to spot issues or possible improvements

Assisting in drafting user stories that capture the clients needs, goals and requirements

Configuring prototype solutions and confidently demonstrating these

Pulling basic data and building reports / dashboards that support clients and their stakeholders

Updating key documentation and/or instructions for clients

Identifying impacts of implementing a new solution and supporting this with change management actions

Undertaking tasks and small projects arising from the above including preparation of change requests and other documentation of client-partner tasks, as directed

Working closely with a Senior Educational Technologist to develop expertise relating to account and relationship management tasks such as:

Managing support balances, health checks, invoicing, software licences, and system upgrades.

Undertaking tasks and projects arising from the above, including preparation of documentation, reports and communications with client-partners and other Androgogic team members

Assisting with client-partner meetings and following up project tasks

Working within established Androgogic policies, processes and methodologies

Continuous professional development

Contributing to Androgogic's ethics and culture

Occasional requirements to travel to represent Androgogic or attend company events

While this is initially a 20hr/week part time position with technical support as the primary focus, the successful applicant can expect to graduate to a full time position in Androgogic's client-engagement team in 2-4 years if they perform well.

About you

You are a self directed, independent thinker with a demonstrable track record of delivering effective results.

You are technically able, happy and helpful (and happy to be helpful)

You have a genuine interest in user experience design and the interface between technology and people

You are proactive and have a strong work ethic with the ability to self-motivate and prioritise

You have enough flexibility in their life to be available for rostering for at least 60% of the hours the service desk is open (see above), and are sufficiently well organised and stable to be able to commit to shifts up to 2 months in advance.

You have strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills.

You have strong written English communication skills

You have a detail-oriented personality with a strong care factor for getting it right

You have strong problem solving and analytical skills.

You are able to use online resources to troubleshoot and self-teach.

You are available and happy to work non-standard hours including evenings (sometimes at short notice)

You are able to work within prescribed systems and processes (including suggesting improvements to them)

Your experience

You have or are in the process of completing a related degree or equivalent

You have demonstrated strong discipline working or studying independently from home

You are comfortable working as part of a tight knit but fully remotely distributed team over Slack, Zoom, Google Apps and other remote technologies

It would also be great, but not mandatory, if:

You have a broad range of skills, experience in customer support and information technologies

You have an interest in educational technology and client engagement

You have experience with educational technology systems specifically including Moodle and/or Totara LMSs but also LCMSs, SMSs and authoring toolsYou have experience in customer service ideally on a help desk or other phone answering position

You have education-related experience in any or all of HE, VET, K-12, corporate and government sectors

You have other IT-related skills, knowledge and experience

You have some experience or related studies in problem solving, learning design, instructional design, user experience or related fields (this corresponds to a career pathway within the client partner engagement team)

You have some experience or related studies in business analysis, account or project management (this corresponds to another career pathway within the client partner engagement team)

You have experience writing and/or proofreading client facing documentation

You have experience in teaching or training

Some things to note

In order to apply for this position, you must either have a current NV1 AGVSA Government Clearance or have the ability to achieve a clearance at that level (basically be a trustworthy Australian citizen). You must therefore also hold or be in the process of receiving Australian Citizenship in order to meet this requirement. Please include details of all citizenship(s) you hold with your application.

In addition to the above, successful candidates will need to undergo National Police and Working with Children Checks immediately upon successful selection.

This position has very occasional requirements to travel to represent Androgogic or attend company events. In such cases all expenses are paid or reimbursed.

While Androgogic’s head office is in Sydney, we have staff in every State of Australia and outstanding applicants from any location, particularly in regional Australia, are encouraged to apply

Applications without a written cover letter or introduction video may not be considered

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