Head of IT

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Tenovus Cancer Care Full time

Our Head of IT job: A values-led people focused IT manager who delivers on customer service through efficiency, open communication and feedback, and a partnership approach to work. A proactive problem-solver who scans the horizon and takes swift early action to keep people, costs, systems and processes safe and working well to deliver our strategy in the best way.

Your Recipe for Success

We'd like your CV and a Covering Letter to demonstrate how you have done this type of IT Manager role already and match the job essentials. We're looking for skills to show us you're:

  • A supportive and inspiring Line Manager who role models values-based behaviours and satisfaction from helping people achieve their goals
  • Someone who shines when working in collaboration with colleagues across a business to represent your IT specialism and deliver practical working solutions and processes
  • Proud of how you've gone about running an interactive customer service and engaged IT business area as a Head of IT (or similar equivalent)
  • An experienced IT & Management Specialist when it comes to organisational GDPR, security, applications and infrastructure and advising on new technologies fit to carry our business forward
  • Someone who's cost-controlled, efficiency-driven, risk adverse and a communicative relationship builder

Managing an IT team of around 6 you'll be leading the team from the front and deliver top-notch customer service. We've a third party supplier support contract so a lot of this involves day-to-day colleague IT support across our shops, office and remote workers. That means adaptable colleague interactive service skills are a must

Working with your Director you'll lead and represent the IT team when it comes to data protection, IT support and the general running of databases, systems and applications. You'll make sure our processes work for our business and a lot of the job will be working with your peers across departments, involved in GDPR and data management and integrating any new technology.

What we're looking for

Having Head of IT (or an equivalent) level of experience means you've got the Line Manager experience and you're capable of demonstrating cross-department working. Our values mean a lot so you'd need to align with these and demonstrate them in all you do.

You'd excel in this role if you're an IT specialist with leadership, influencing, a teamwork approach and a variety of communication skills that not only get the best out of people but help you deliver tangible results. As you're involved in GDPR and data management across the organisation you'd need to be able to demonstrate your level of management capability in this area too.

The Logistics

  • Permanent Job: Head of IT
  • Apply by : 12th June (So we can handle our candidate applications effectively we may pause recruitment time to time)
  • Hours: 35 hours per week supported by flexible working.

This means that outside of our core Monday-Friday 11am-3pm hours you can suit work around your lifestyle and personal commitments. We operate our work flexibly between 7am – 9pm so you can do things like the school runs or fit in wellness activities and hobbies.

  • Place of work: Home / Head Office (Cardiff City Centre)

With no set weekly minimum Head Office attendance we expect our staff to work in our office together as much as your role requires so being local to our Cardiff Head Office helps. We promote collaborative working and team and cross-department meetings in person as much as possible so flexibility and a willingness to work in person is expected from our Head of IT

In return you'll be part of a people orientated culture, make impact through a worthwhile cause and have Staff Benefits such as:

  • Core working hours 11am-3pm to fit work your lifestyle and personal life around our 7am-9pm operating hours
  • Super flexible place of work options with no minimum Head Office weekly attendance requirement although we encourage as much in office work as possible
  • A generous 35 days annual leave including public holidays that increases with length of service (pro rata'd for part time staff)
  • Your birthday off work once you've been here for 12 months.
  • Opportunity to buy up to 10 days of additional annual leave per year
  • Occupational sick pay after completion of probationary period
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • A tailored induction and support programme to help you succeed and excel
  • An Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) offering access to 24/7 confidential advice and support
  • The opportunity to participate in staff volunteer activities to support the wider organisation
  • The opportunity to learn from, grow with, support and develop people who volunteer with US

Are we talking to you?

When our people talk about working here they use words such as friends, family and fun and they love our work culture around job flexibility. As well as it being a nice place to work for a good cause the staff benefits are good. On top of the above we've got a stylish Head Office in the heart of Cardiff and things to support you in and out of work like an interactive induction programme, an accessible Learning Platform, development opportunities and experienced managers. Plus a Staff Social Committee who organise regular get togethers

About us

Every year, around 20,000 people are diagnosed with cancer in Wales. As Wales' leading cancer charity we support over 10% of people diagnosed with cancer each year and our ambition is to be there for many more.

We're a charity that understands what it is to live with cancer and how it affects families and friends too. We bring information, advice, practical and emotional support so people can take back some control of their lives and live as well as possible with cancer. We'reWales'leading cancer charity and our aim is to champion the needs of people affected by cancer to drive the changes that make a real difference, not just now, but for future generations.

More about US

At Tenovus Cancer Care we're committed to making our workplace diverse and inclusive where everyone feels they belong and can be their authentic selves at work. We're proud to be an equal opportunities employer who does not discriminate based on the Equality Act 2010's Protected Characteristics. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment and we will adjust our recruitment processes where we can to support people who wish to join us.

I'm interested? Please apply with your CV and covering letter by the 12 th June. So we can handle our candidate applications effectively we may pause recruitment time to time.

Please contact us for a copy of our Job Description & Person Specification if you're interested in finding out the finer details.

If you're looking for your next career challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

Your Personal Data

We're committed to being transparent about how we collect and use that data and to meeting our data protection obligations and you can find full details about this in our Job Application Privacy Notice here on our Work for us page on the Tenovus Cancer website.

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