Teaching Vacancies
Head of IT – Lancashire
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic leadership and development of IT capacity, ensuring resources and services support future development through ongoing improvements.
- Day-to-day leadership of IT support across a multi-site organisation.
- Development of IT resources.
- Delivering the IT strategy across the Trust.
- Working with the Catholic Senior Executive Leader.
- Regular onsite work across all schools.
Skills and Expertise
- Proven experience defining IT strategy and managing delivery of strategic objectives.
- Experience leading IT strategy in a complex, multi-site organisation.
- Project management experience (planning and delivering IT projects on time and to budget).
- Strong stakeholder management (including CEO and SLT).
- Experience managing relationships with IT suppliers (negotiating contracts, monitoring SLAs).
- Leading IT operational service delivery and delivering high customer care standards.
- Managing an IT department in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience leading an IT function in education or a highly focused customer environment.
- Managing competing priorities and working to tight timescales.
- Full understanding of supply and third-party management.
- Understanding of contract management and commercial environment, driving customer value.
- Awareness of industry trends, incorporating ideas and vision into the business.
- Good technical knowledge of new technologies and their application.
- Relevant methodologies (Prince2, ITIL, Agile).
- Understanding of CRM, CMS, ERP, and general business systems.
- Comprehensive experience and insight into IT technology and solutions.
- Ability to manage technical staff.
- Excellent leadership and management skills.
- Excellent motivational and team-building skills.
- Translating organisational direction into specific job expectations, managing performance through monitoring, coaching, and feedback.
- Resource management (staffing, budgetary management, resource maximisation).
- Effective communication (oral and written).
- Experience commissioning services from third parties and managing supplier/contractor relationships.
- Strong people management and team-building skills.
- Mentoring/guiding staff, developing them for internal teams.
- Decision-making and adherence to decisions.
- Strong problem-solving and budget management skills.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Good verbal, interpersonal, written presentation and communication skills.
- Customer-focused approach.
- Highly innovative and attentive to detail.
- Ability to relate effectively with a wide range of people (staff, contractors, customers).
- Self-motivation and personal drive.
- Commitment to continuous personal development (qualifications).
- Self-awareness and ability to receive constructive feedback.
- Reliability, integrity, and resilience.
- Excellent attendance and punctuality.
- Understanding, demonstrating, and applying Trust Values.
- Commitment to safeguarding, equality and diversity, and health and safety.
- Essential car user.
Job Facilities/Benefits
- Pension, wellbeing support, and professional development.