Senior Ict Officer

**Senior ICT Officer**

**Job description**
**Who We Are**

At North East Lincolnshire Council, we have a unique ability to provide the ultimate work life balance for our employees. Situated within the award-winning coastal area of Cleethorpes and the beautiful Lincolnshire Wolds, North East Lincolnshire Council provide the perfect location for you to Live, Work & Play.

**Our Vision & Purpose**
To create a stronger economy and stronger communities and improve the lives of our people.

**Our Values**
- Valuing People
- Honesty
- Striving for Continuous Improvement
- Openness
- Commitment
- Behaving with Integrity

**Our teams in Policy Strategy and Resources provide support to the whole of the Council through a range of activities.**
**We are introducing new ways of working to make best use of the data and intelligence we hold across North East Lincolnshire, that we work with our partners and communities to better understand the problems we need to solve, and that we work together to achieve solutions for the best outcomes for our residents at a cost that we can afford.**
**To support this work, we now have a number of exciting opportunities for people who are passionate about working with our front-line services to improve the lives and the environment for the people of North East Lincolnshire.**

**Your Role & Team**

Across North East Lincolnshire’s Children’s Services, we are moving forward with reducing the number of systems we currently utilise, consolidating information in fewer places to support and develop better ways of working. This will allow us to operate in a more cohesive manner and provide analytics that will be invaluable.

This Project will lead to improved visibility of interactions with children and families and will enable better collaboration between services and increase opportunities for early interventions.

As part of this initiative, we are recruiting a Senior ICT Officer to act as our Migration Lead to work within our thriving IT Project Team.

The Migration Lead will manage the extraction, transformation, loading and validation of current and legacy business data from multiple sources into a single platform. You will be working closely with the rest of the Project Team, business functions within Children’s services and act as a key contact for the awarded supplier.

**Your Responsibilities**
- Assist with the strategic management of a suite of key programmes, service area ICT plans and projects to deliver the Council ICT objectives including undertaking all aspects of programme and project management from project initiation to project closure involving ensuring proper planning, execution, monitoring and control of the project/programme
- Lead on specifying and procuring ICT equipment, software and other technical items required to deliver ICT projects, in response to demand and asset management initiatives, establishing appropriate working relationships with suppliers as required
- Work with the Advanced Practitioners and ICT Specialists to investigate / trial new technologies and to assist in production of technical standards

**Interviews will take place 02.03.23**

**Why work for NELC?**
North East Lincolnshire is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. Here are some of the main benefits:

- Flexible Working Options - agile working, compressed hours, term time working, flexi-time, home working. All to enable a work/life balance (relevant to the role you are undertaking).
- Salary Sacrifice Scheme - saves tax and national insurance by exchanging part of your gross salary for non-cash benefits such as; Holiday Extra - to purchase additional annual leave, Cycle to Work scheme and Tusker Cars (beneficial rate car lease scheme)
- In-house wellbeing support and Employee Assistance Programme
- Health Cash Plan - to claim cash back on a range of healthcare costs
- Credit Union
- Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health & beauty and many other products and services
- Discounted Car Parking Permit
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- A minimum of 24 days holiday + 8 bank holidays per year (based on a 37-hour week)

**Salary**: £34,723.00 per year