Head of IT
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust, Liverpool, L3 1BYThis job expired on 24 June 2024 – see similar jobs
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
24 June 2024 at 9am
Date listed
6 June 2024
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
- IT support
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: 37 hours per week
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £53,500 - £61,500 per annum
What skills and experience we're looking for
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is based in the Liverpool City Region with five primary and four secondary academies. As a united family of academies, we are fully aligned around our central mission to transform children’s lives by providing them with a world-class Catholic education.
We are seeking a talented and experienced individual to join a friendly and supportive team, ready to embrace a new and exciting challenge as our Head of IT and to make a significant contribution to the Trust’s continued success.
The Head of IT will lead on the design, development and implementation of the IT strategy and manage the IT Services function, infrastructure, and technical operations. A key member of the Trust Central Team, you will help to deliver an outstanding service to staff, students, and the Central Team.
Responsibilities include to:
develop and implement a comprehensive, forward looking IT strategy that aligns with the Trust’s vision and objectives, ensuring the effective use of technology to support teaching, learning and operational excellence across all the academies.
deliver innovative, effective, and efficient IT systems and applications that enhances learning and ensures effective management and administration. This will include the development of all systems and infrastructure across the Trust.
project manage the development of all systems and infrastructure across the Trust
ensure reliable IT operations.
managing budgets and service provider relationships.
managing the IT team, including roles such as Data Manager, Network Manager, IT Support Technician etc.
The role also involves process and policy development, staff training, and attending relevant meetings, ensuring high-quality IT services for all stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have a combination of technical, managerial, and interpersonal skills. You should have an excellent knowledge of the technology environment, ideally within education, and a proven ability to ensure our IT service facilitates a high-quality learning environment.
What the school offers its staff
There are many good reasons to work with us. We have a real sense of community, striving to make a difference to children’s education. You will be part, too of the wider Archdiocese family and in the company of some of the best people in education.
We also offer a variety of benefits, such as:
- Competitive salaries and pay progression
- Flexible working
- Access to extensive professional development opportunities
- Generous holiday entitlement 39 days including bank holidays.
- Generous pension scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Competitive terms and conditions of employment
Commitment to safeguarding
SJCMAT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We undertake safeguarding checks on all workers in accordance with DfE statutory guidance ‘Keeping Children Safe in Education’ this may also include an online search as part of our due diligence on shortlisted applicants. We offer all our registered candidates FREE child protection and prevent duty training. All candidates must undertake or have undertaken a valid enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. For details of our privacy policy, please visit https://stjosephmat.org.uk/privacy-policy.
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About St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- recruitment@sjcmat.co.uk
- Phone number
- 0151 272 0173
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust is a based in the Liverpool City Region with five primary and four secondary academies. As a united family of academies, we are fully aligned around our central mission to transform children’s lives by providing them with a world-class Catholic education.
The Trust guarantees an excellent Catholic education to all families. Our children are entitled to access an ambitious curriculum and excellent teaching, which allow them to achieve and exceed national expectations regardless of their starting points.
Everyone involved in St Joseph CMAT is highly committed to the pursuit of high achievement. We aim for all of our academies to be at least ‘Good’ with performance in the top 20% of schools nationally in all measures, particularly in Religious Education. Our robust educational strategy, which is informed by the highest-performing Trusts in the country, is designed to ensure that all children learn to read confidently and achieve well across the curriculum so that they can go on to use their God-given gifts to make the world a better place.
St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust has sponsor status. We are able to provide intensive support to schools who find themselves in a vulnerable position and onboard ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ schools who choose to join as converter academies. For all academies in the Trust, there is a guarantee of high-quality professional development for all colleagues.
Growth
During 2023-2024, the St Joseph family will continue to grow with the addition of Notre Dame College and SFX College in Liverpool. This will mean that there are four secondary academies within the Trust.
As part of its Multi Academy Trust strategy, the Archdiocese of Liverpool has identified a group of primary schools that are invited to join St Joseph CMAT over the coming years. This is an exciting opportunity to bring together primary and secondary schools. By working as a family of academies, we will ensure that every child benefits from an excellent Catholic education from the moment they start primary school to when they leave Sixth Form.
Arranging a visit to St Joseph Catholic Multi Academy Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email recruitment@sjcmat.co.uk.
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