Projects and Infrastructure Manager
The Spencer Academies Trust, Nottingham, NG9 6RZ14 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
31 March 2026 at 1pm
Date listed
17 March 2026
Job details
Job role
- IT support
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £38,220.00 - £41,771.00 Annually (Actual) Full Time - All Year Round - NJC27-31
Projects and Infrastructure Manager job summary
Are you passionate about technology and committed to delivering top-notch IT support? We are on the lookout for a dynamic individual to fill the role of Projects and Infrastructure Manager.
This role will be based at our Spencer Academies Trust Central Office, supporting the One Spencer IT Service, ensuring a seamless technology experience across the Trust. You will be required to travel to any one of our 27 academies and so you must hold a valid driving licence.
The Projects and Infrastructure Manager will be responsible for leading and coordinating key IT and infrastructure projects across our Trust, ensuring they are delivered effectively and aligned with our strategic priorities. The role will oversee the planning, delivery and governance of technology and infrastructure initiatives, working closely with schools, central teams and external partners. This includes managing project timelines, resources and risks, while ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure and support our Trust’s long term digital strategy.
Alongside project delivery, the role will also support the development and continuous improvement of our infrastructure environment, helping to ensure reliability, resilience and consistency across our systems and services.
The postholder will work closely with the wider IT team and report to our Head of Infrastructure, helping to strengthen our capacity to deliver complex projects while maintaining high quality operational infrastructure.
Join us on this journey where every day presents a new technological challenge and an opportunity to make a significant impact in the education sector. If you're ready to embrace a dynamic role that goes beyond the ordinary, we invite you to be a part of our passionate team. Apply now and be a driving force in shaping the future of IT in education!
If you would like to discuss this role further, please contact James Cook, Head of IT Infrastructure at jcook@spencertrust.org.uk or call 0115 6464200.
Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.
Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).
The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.
Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer.
Further information about the job
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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- Multi-academy trust
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