Desktop Support Engineer

2-year Fixed term, Full-time, Full year contract

Salary: The salary range for the post will be at Point 18 – Point 22 on the John Whitgift Foundation Support Staff Salary Scale. The full-time salary will be between £31,872 gross pay per annum at (Point 18) to £35,842 gross pay per annum at (Point 22) dependent on qualifications and experience.

We are seeking to appoint a Desktop Support Engineer who will provide 1st and 2nd line desktop support for staff and students across Whitgift. A successful candidate will have strong working knowledge of but not limited to; Azure Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office, SharePoint Online and Windows 11, along with excellent customer service skills, organisation and problem-solving skills and the ability to work with people of all ages within an educational setting.

Whitgift is a leading independent day and boarding school for boys, with approximately 1500 pupils including over one hundred boarding pupils and flexi boarding pupils. It is set in an attractive 48-acre parkland site in South Croydon enjoying excellent links to London, Surrey and the south coast.

With a reputation for holistic endeavour, Whitgift enjoys an unparalleled reputation for delivering a genuine combination of academic excellence and all-round achievement. The co-curricular programme – which provides every one of its students with an exceptional range of clubs and societies across academic departments and beyond – was recognized by ISI in our recent inspection at the end of the Lent Term 2025 as a “significant strength”. We believe in breadth and depth of opportunity, high aspiration, and a “can-do” and engaged attitude: key ingredients for preparing the young people in our care brilliantly for the rest of their lives.

We welcome applications from all sectors of our community as we aspire to attract staff that match the social and cultural diversity of our student intake.

We invite interested candidates to apply as soon as possible as applications will be reviewed on a daily basis, and interviews may take place at any time. This vacancy may close earlier than the stated deadline if sufficient applications are received, so early submission is encouraged.

To apply, please visit Current Vacancies - Whitgift School.

Whitgift School (part of the John Whitgift Foundation) is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  Where applicable, applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service and online media checks. It is an offence to apply for a role at the school if you know that you are barred from regulated activity with children.

All roles within the school involve contact with children and are therefore classed as regulated activity. Child protection and safeguarding are the responsibility of everyone who works or volunteers in our school. All staff must be committed to providing a safe environment for children and supporting the school’s safeguarding ethos.

The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Applicants are required to declare all convictions and cautions, even those that are “spent” unless they are “protected” under the DBS filtering rules, to assess suitability to work with children. Shortlisted candidates will be asked to disclose information relevant to safeguarding prior to interview.