4 days remaining to apply

  • Start date details

    As soon as possible

  • Closing date

    1 May 2026 at 11:59pm

  • Date listed

    27 April 2026

Job details

Job role

  • IT support

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£57,391.00 - £63,966.00 Annually (Actual) Grade 8 SCP 40-45

Director of IT job summary

Kingfisher Schools Trust provides direction, support and challenge to seven schools in Suffolk and Norfolk. Our mission is to provide exceptional education for our pupils. We are committed to helping our entire community, especially the young people in our care, to flourish. Our work is focused on creating ‘life choices’ for young people rather than ‘life chances’.

We are looking to appoint a Director of IT to deliver an IT strategy that serves the trust’s current needs and supports its future development. The Director of IT will be accountable for managing the trust’s IT resources, and for overseeing the delivery of a high-quality IT support service.

This is a hybrid role, which will involve travel across all of our sites.

Kingfisher Schools Trust offers a wide range of benefits, including:

  • Excellent opportunities for development
  • Access to a huge variety of training courses through The National College
  • Pension scheme (LGPS) with generous employer contribution
  • Employee Assistance Programme for free and confidential advice
  • Shopping and leisure discounts
  • Cycle to work salary sacrifice scheme
  • Affordable electric car salary sacrifice scheme

Please submit your application as soon as possible, as the closing date for this vacancy may be altered if a sufficient number of applications are received.

Kingfisher Schools Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An enhanced DBS check will be part of the pre-employment screening process for this role. An application form must be completed in full; CVs alone cannot be accepted.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.
Visas cannot be sponsored.
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Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

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About Kingfisher Schools Trust

Type
Multi-academy trust
Website
Kingfisher Schools Trust website
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Kingfisher is a new trust providing direction, support and challenge to schools in the East of England. We have a mission to provide exceptional education for our pupils

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