Head of Information Services and Infrastructure

**Grade: UE08 (£42,149 - £50, 296)**

**College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences**

**The School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences**

**Full-time, Open-Ended**

**1 position available
The School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a full time, open-ended Head of Information Services and Infrastructure.

**The Opportunity**:
A key member of the School Management Group the Head of Information Services and Infrastructure shall be responsible for the organisation, management, development and delivery of high quality services across our Information Technology, E-learning and Buildings & Facilities services teams.

The role is primarily focussed on management and coordination; however, in-depth technical expertise is required across a wide range of technology disciplines.

The ability to build positive, supportive and close working relationships with academic and professional services colleagues is a must and the post-holder will manage the delivery of a wide portfolio of services across a range of support levels, liaising with a variety of both internal and external stakeholders to the school/university.

**Your skills and attributes for success
- University degree or equivalent, plus typically a minimum of 4 years’ experience in relevant technical/scientific work. Or, a minimum of 10 years work experience in relevant technical or scientific roles, demonstrating development through involvement in progressively more demanding work/roles.
- Strong leadership skills including the ability to inspire and motivate teams.
- Sound understanding of the current context and future directions of information technology and ability to anticipate its impact on teaching and research.
- Ability to generate original ideas and innovative solutions through the provision of specialist know-how.
- Experience of project management methodologies would be highly desirable.

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**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.

We expect interviews will be held on Thursday 1 st September.

We ask you to include a current CV and cover letter with names of three referees who may be contacted at a later date (please note if you do not wish for anyone to be contacted until _after _an offer has been made).

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As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

The School is recognised as world-leading, as shown in its excellent output across all areas in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. Psychology is rated 3 rd, Philosophy is rated 4 th and Linguistics and English Language is rated 3 rd in the UK by Times Higher Education for the quality and breadth of the research. Read about the impact our research is making on the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences website (Opens in new browser tab).