{"id":93116,"date":"2026-03-25T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/job\/application-support-specialist\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T08:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T08:00:48","slug":"application-support-specialist","status":"publish","type":"job_listing","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/job\/application-support-specialist\/","title":{"rendered":"Application Support Specialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major Responsibilities:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Primary responsibilities include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<p>\tProvide timely L1 and L2 application support by troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving issues across IRC productivity tools and supported systems, ensuring minimal disruption to users.<br \/>\n\tPerform routine maintenance and continuous improvement activities on supported systems in coordination with Associate Director of Application Support and relevant stakeholders.\u00a0<br \/>\n\tConfigure and administer projects and workspaces in Jira, Monday.com, and other project management platforms, including user provisioning, access management, workflow configuration, and board creation.<br \/>\n\tInput into Atlassian ecosystem architecture decisions and setup and support migration to new tools in the ecosystem.<br \/>\n\tUnder the direction of the Associate Director of Application Support, provide guidance to global IT staff on how to respond to and escalate incidents.\u00a0<br \/>\n\tCollaborate with IRC users to gather feedback and understand the arising needs on the use of relevant applications and communicate this information to appropriate stakeholders.<br \/>\n\tPlan and deliver user enablement sessions, including webinars, in-person trainings, and virtual meetings, to support effective use of enterprise applications.<br \/>\n\tBuild and maintain a knowledge base and technical documentation of commonly encountered issues including but not limited to Quick Resource Guides, Troubleshooting tips and functionality of supported applications.<br \/>\n\tReport on and analyze incident trends across different regions and different user groups within the organization.<br \/>\n\tEscalation of application issues to the required support groups, Business System Managers, Vendor Partners or Enterprise Technology Experts.<\/p>\n<p>Key Working Relationships:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tPosition Reports to:\u00a0Associate Director, Application Support<br \/>\n\tPosition directly supervises:\u00a0\u00a0Non-managerial position<\/p>\n<p>Other Internal and\/or external contacts:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\tInternal:\u00a0\u00a0Enterprise Applications Team, Project Management Team, Business Relationship Team, Application users<br \/>\n\tExternal:\u00a0 Software and system vendors, including Microsoft, Box, Zoom, Atlassian<\/p>\n<p>Job Requirements:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Experience Requirements<\/p>\n<p>\tMinimum 2-3 years of IT and business\/industry work specializing in support of Microsoft Products and other industry standard services<\/p>\n<p>Apply Through:<\/p>\n<p>theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_promoted":"","_job_location":"","_application":"http:\/\/theirc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com","_company_name":"International Rescue Committee","_company_website":"https:\/\/www.rescue.org\/","_company_tagline":"The International Rescue Committee is a global humanitarian aid, relief and development nongovernmental organization.","_company_twitter":"","_company_video":"","_filled":0,"_featured":0,"_remote_position":0,"_job_salary":"","_job_salary_currency":"","_job_salary_unit":""},"job_listing_region":[692],"job-categories":[716,693,700],"job-types":[687],"class_list":{"0":"post-93116","1":"job_listing","2":"type-job_listing","3":"status-publish","4":"hentry","5":"job_listing_region-nairobi","7":"job-type-full-time"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings\/93116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-listings"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/job_listing"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"job_listing_region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job_listing_region?post=93116"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-categories?post=93116"},{"taxonomy":"job_listing_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/job-types?post=93116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}