Job Title: IT Manager
Location: Whitley Academy, Coventry
Salary: Grade 6 (£25,463-£31,401)
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 20th August 2018 (12 noon)
The Company:
The Academy is an outstanding rated academy with approximately 920 students and 133 staff committed to delivering quality education for the communities that they serve. They believe that all young people are talented, and that with excellent teaching, support where necessary, and an outstanding learning environment, they can fulfil their potential. They are committed to innovation and creativity in the classroom, whether in terms of teachers’ practice or students’ learning.
The Academy is looking for an enthusiastic, well organised and flexible person to provide an effective and efficient ICT support service to Whitley Academy.
The Role:
As IT Manager for the school you will oversee the development of the use of Information Technology as a tool for all staff and students in their day to day work, manage the technical service to staff and students engaged in the use of ICT and supervise the work of the IT technical support team.
Ensure the academy is fully operational with appropriate and robust networking infrastructure, MIS and curriculum based operation, training and development of staff in existing and new technologies and ensuring that the system is capable of future expansion and development.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Support for Pupils and Staff
- Ensure that all staff and students have continuous access to high quality IT systems to support their work. Provide advice, support and guidance to all staff and students within the School who require assistance in developing their use of information technology equipment, hardware and software to facilitate their work or studies.
- Advise staff on outstanding practice from other institutions and how it can be applied
- To ensure that students and parents are able to access relevant information remotely and interact with the Academy through this connection.
- Assist in the development of the SIMS system across the School, providing advice on local related issues, such as hardware and configuration.
- Develop expertise to an advanced level in the main PC software packages used within the School, in order to support and advise staff in the use of such packages.
- Oversee the distribution of staff laptops.
Line Management
- To co-ordinate the work of the IT Support Staff across the school ensuring both technical and curriculum advice and support. Assist, advice and supervise the work of staff, including carrying out staff development reviews, identifying training needs and prioritising workloads.
- Undertake the role of Network Manager for the School.
- To provide leadership and guidance to IT Support team members, ensuring an efficient and effective team that can support the Academy’s IT needs.
Candidate:
Experience
- Experience of Network Management – incorporating virtualised infrastructure; RDS (TS) thin clients and full PC clients.
- Experience of hardware and software implementation and problem solving in an ICT environment.
- Significant IT experience in a senior Role with line management responsibilities.
- Experience of managing IT budgets and procurements, including technical specification, tendering and evaluation for contracts.
- Experience of working in partnership with ICT providers to deliver complex solutions.
Qualifications / Education
- High level of technical experience and qualification in ICT.
- Relevant IT skills, knowledge and up-to-date qualifications in Network Management and associated software applications.
Knowledge
- Full working knowledge of relevant policies/codes of practice and awareness of relevant legislation.
Technical Knowledge of Hardware:
- Firewalls – Watchguard
- Switches – HP Procurve inc PoE
- Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Points and BYOD
- Dell & Fujitsu Servers
- Dell Storage
- HP & Dell Laptops
- HP & Dell Desktops
- HP Thin Clients
Technical Knowledge of Software:
- Windows Server 2008R2, 2012R2 & 2016
- Windows Server 2016 RDS
- Windows 7 /10
- Exchange Server 2010
- Image Rollout
- WSUS / WDS / MDT
- Adobe CS
- Microsoft Office 2010 / 2013 / 2016
- VMWare vSphere
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Candidates with experience of; IT Infrastructure Manager, Service Delivery Manager, IT Manager, IT Team Leader, FMCG IT Manager, Project Manager, Technical Manager, Technical IT Manager, Technical Team Manager, ICT Manager, IT Project, Implementation Manager, Transformation Manager, IT Project Manager may also be considered for this role.
