Head of IT Services

4 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE09 (£57,696 - £64,914)**

**School of Biological Sciences**

**College of Science and Engineering**

**Open-ended contract**

**Full time (35 hours per week)
We are looking for a highly experienced, competent and capable individual to lead on the provision of IT for the School of Biological Sciences.

**The Opportunity**:
You will be responsible for service delivery, strategy and leadership of the School of Biological Sciences’ IT Services, managing a team delivering IT infrastructure and service support to a community of 650 staff and 1,200 students over 9 buildings on the King’s Buildings Campus. This includes highly specialist support to the School’s research facilities, and learning technology support and training to the School’s teaching staff.

**Your skills and attributes for success**:

- Leadership experience working with and influencing senior management, with demonstrable ability to lead, motivate and develop staff and inspire a customer-focussed and positive performance culture
- Managing and developing teams and services, including managing teams through significant change
- Demonstrable experience of developing innovative solutions and contributing to strategic planning
- Demonstrable understanding of the latest technologies, standards and user experience best practices for web and intranet, IT, technology enhanced education, and computing in the sciences Strong client handling skills and customer service management (ideally using ITIL methodology)

Click **here **for a copy of the full job description.

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.



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