Departmental IT Manager (Part Time)

The Department of Chemistry is seeking an enthusiastic, experienced IT manager to lead our experienced and highly effective IT team. Chemistry is a large, research intensive department that is critically dependent upon the effective delivery of IT services in order to fulfil its academic mission. It is closely aligned to the design and delivery of services to enable the department's pursuit of its research goals, whilst providing team and programme leadership across the whole portfolio of IT service delivery to the Department.

This is a key role as you will responsible for the creation of the IT vision of the department and its delivery through our team of IT professionals. Through combination of project work and the delivery of day-to-day services, you will ensure that IT creates the digital environment to enable the department to fulfil its goals in research, teaching and learning, as well as providing the tools to support the delivery of the department's administrative functions. You will work closely with the relevant officers in the School of Physical Sciences and the UIS, and will be responsible to reviewing and implementing relevant University policies, especially those relating to Cyber Security.

The successful applicant will have postgraduate graduate degree level/level 7 vocational qualifications or equivalent level of practical experience, along with a professional qualification in an appropriate IT delivery standards e.g. ITIL service framework or PRINCE2 methodology, or equivalent level of practical experience. You must have recent experience in implementing organisation wide new technology, evidence of working at a strategic level to create and deliver organisation-wide change and be an experienced people manager with evidence of managing performance for high quality results.

Being an expert in more than two technical specialisms and in at least one technology, you must have the ability to build effective relationships at all levels of the organisation, have strong strategic thinking and planning skills, be able to communicate very effectively orally and in writing, along with being highly proactive and persuasive. You must have a demonstrable track record of shaping policy, strategy and practise in a complex organisation.

• This is a part-time role, 18.5 hours per week, working pattern to be agreed on appointment.
  
  

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For queries relating to the position or the application process, please contact Emma Graham on (email: [email protected]).

Please quote reference MA46801 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

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