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  • Start date details

    September 26

  • Closing date

    19 June 2026 at 12pm (midday)

  • Date listed

    5 June 2026

Job details

Job role

  • IT support

Visa sponsorship

Visas cannot be sponsored

Working pattern

Full time

Contract type

Permanent

Full-time equivalent salary

£64,130.00 - £71,453.00 Annually (Actual) SMG 20 £64,130.00 - SMG 24 £71,453.00

Trust Lead for IT job summary

Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust

Trust Lead for IT

Full Time - Permanent

37 hours per week

SMG 20 £64,130.00 - SMG 24 £71,453.00

Location: Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust with regular travel to trust sites required.

We are seeking a visionary, solution-focused Trust Lead for IT to join our Executive Leadership Team. In this pivotal role, you will have full autonomy to develop, own, and implement our overarching IT strategy, ensuring our technology elevates teaching and learning while keeping our day-to-day operations seamlessly resilient and secure.

As the strategic lead of our IT estate, you will bridge the gap between forward-thinking technical infrastructure and daily educational outcomes. You will have the freedom to shape our digital landscape—balancing the roll-out of innovative cloud environments and enterprise MDM solutions with the mission-critical duty of keeping our schools securely connected and operational every single day.

Key Responsibilities

  • Strategic Execution: Design, author, and implement a comprehensive, trust-wide IT strategy aligned with our educational vision.

  • Operational Excellence & Continuity: Guarantee that core IT infrastructure, network architectures, and cloud environments remain highly available, resilient, and fully operational to minimise downtime across all trust sites.

  • IT Support: Oversee a multi-tiered IT Helpdesk to deliver prompt, proactive, and robust technical support to all staff and students, keeping day-to-day school operations seamless and efficient.

  • Innovation & AI: Horizon-scan for emerging technologies (e.g., AI-driven adaptive learning, automated workflows) while establishing data-privacy guardrails.

  • Procurement & Compliance: Lead strategic vendor negotiations and ensure absolute statutory compliance regarding GDPR, cybersecurity, and safeguarding content filtering.

  • Data Systems: Streamline trust-wide data systems, manage secure information reporting, and leverage BI platforms to drive data-informed decision-making.

What We Are Looking For

  • Proven Leadership: Experience managing or supervising a proactive IT support function, ideally across a multi-site or educational environment.

  • Technical Expertise: Advanced knowledge of Microsoft 365 tenant environments, Entra ID, Windows/macOS deployment, and other cloud environments such as Google Workspace.

  • Strategic Thinker: An influential communicator capable of translating technical challenges into business solutions and collaborating with senior leadership.

  • Mobility: As this is a multi-site role supporting academies across the Trust, a full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are required.

  • Values Driven: A deep commitment to the Trust’s core values of Excelling, Creating, and Caring, alongside robust integrity and a sharp attention to detail.

Ready to Apply?

If you are a resilient, solution-focused professional ready to act as a change agent in a thriving educational community, we want to hear from you.

Closing Date: 19th June 2026

Interview Date: W/C 22nd June 2026

Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in its academies. In line with our safer recruitment practices and statutory guidance on Keeping Children Safe in Education, all applicants must be willing to undergo an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Additional pre-employment checks will also be carried out including online/social media check, satisfactory references and any other appropriate checks necessary in order to assess the suitability to work with children

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

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About Lincolnshire Gateway Academies Trust

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