Job Title: IT Manager
Location: Huddersfield / Hybrid
Salary: £30,000 – £35,000 per annum
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Working Hours: 35 per week, Monday to Friday, 9.00am – 5.00pm
Holidays: 33 days including bank holidays
Collingwood are an education organisation based in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. We design and deliver education and training programmes across the UK and also manage international programmes around the world. As part of our expansion we are looking for an IT Manager to be responsible and accountable for the smooth running of our multiple online platforms, IT systems, security, and compliance. You will supervise the implementation and maintenance of our company’s IT needs. The role is also externally facing, with the requirement for excellent communication with clients and delivery partners who utilise our programmes and platforms.
The successful candidate will have a proven professional experience in IT management, understand the IT security and compliance agenda, and have strong interpersonal skills. The ideal applicant will need to work regularly at our Holmfirth office, but can work remotely the rest of time if preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage information technology and computer systems
- Plan, organize, control and evaluate IT and electronic data operations
- Manage IT developments through excellent communication across teams, both internal and external stakeholders
- Design, develop, implement and coordinate systems, policies and procedures
- Ensure security of data, network access and backup systems
- Act in alignment with user needs and system functionality to contribute to organizational policy
- Identify problematic areas and implement technical and strategic solutions with key company partners
- Audit systems and assess their outcomes
- Preserve assets, information security and control structures
- Audit company resources and budget upgrades in resources across the team
Requirements and skills:
- Proven working experience as an IT Manager or similar
- Excellent knowledge of technical management, information analysis and of computer hardware/software systems
- Expertise in data centre management and data governance
- Hands-on experience with computer networks, network administration and network installation
- Ability and confidence to work with external partners to identify problems and implement fixes and quality improvements
- Experience of understanding and implementing compliance policy (security, user access, GDPR) across IT platforms and systems
- The ideal candidate will possess system management experience in Microsoft 365, WordPress, and web hosting
Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; IT Service Manager, IT Manager, IT Team Leader, IT Services Manager, IT Director, IT Service Manager, IT Technical Manager may also be considered for this role.
