Director of Digital Strategy and Learning
Ardingly College Senior
West Sussex
- Expired
- Salary:
- £61,380 per annum
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
Job overview
Ardingly College have a new and exciting role for a visionary and inspirational leader to drive forward information technology within the College.
We are looking for someone who has the ability to:
- Oversee and drive the strategy to ensure the IT infrastructure, technology and staff development are relevant for education and geared to enhance teaching and learning;
- Motivate staff to adopt new ways of working to make all staff collectively more efficient;
- Turn needs and wants into logical processes that can be automated;
- Document the strategy that is emerging and provide a coordinated action plan to support its implementation.
The Director of Digital Strategy and Learning will lead a team of six staff, one of which will be an outsourced Senior Network Technician. They will also work closely with key internal staff to drive the College forward in all IT related matters.
The successful candidate will have five to ten years’ experience in managing information processing functions, with knowledge of technology in an educational environment. They will have excellent technical capacity with the ability and skill to program, setup and manage hardware.
The post-holder will be qualified to degree level in an area relevant to the post. Project management, ITIL or other similar related professional qualifications and experience in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning would be desirable.
The individual will have excellent communication skills and be able to communicate effectively with all levels of staff and the students. They will have problem-solving and analytical skills, with a good business acumen.
This is a full-time role, working 52 weeks per year. The normal hours and days of work are Monday to Friday, from 8.30am to 5.00pm, although flexibility will be required to meet the needs of the College. This could include occasional evening and weekend work as the job duties demand.
The salary is £61,380 per annum.
The College offers a wide range of benefits including pension, private health insurance, sports and leisure facilities, school fee remission and salary sacrifice schemes.
For further information and to apply, please visit www.ardingly.com/Vacancies or contact HR on 01444 893059 or email recruitment@ardingly.com.
Closing date: Thursday 5th December 2019, although applications may be considered upon receipt.
Interview date: w/c 9th December 2019.
Ardingly College is an independent co-educational boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 2 -18, a member of the HMC and a school of the Woodard Corporation.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. All employees are required to undertake child protection screening appropriate to the post including enhanced DBS checks.
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About Ardingly College Senior
Ardingly College is a successful and modern co-educational school in a beautiful and traditional school setting in West Sussex.
The Prep School has over 200 pupils from Reception to Year 6, as well as a Nursery. Reception and KS1 are based in the Farmhouse and Years 3–6 in the main school building, School House. The Prep School lives and breathes the values of Shaping My World, through which primary-aged children learn to explore the world around them in ways that are adventurous, curious, generous, and ingenious.
The Senior School has over 800 students from 11 to 18, 300 of whom are boarders. The school puts the values of Collaboration, Compassion, Engagement and Resilience at the heart of its education and strives to help its students to become ready for the next stage of their lives beyond school in a programme known as World Ready. Students are drawn from the South-East and London as well as abroad, and a modest but growing endowment supports a bursary programme for talented students with limited financial means. In recent years, the College has educated half a dozen Ukrainian and Afghan refugee children free of charge.
The wellbeing and welfare of our students is paramount, with a strong emphasis on pastoral support provided through house staff, the Health & Wellbeing Centre, the Chaplain, the DSL and the Mental Health Lead. In the most recent ISI inspection of educational quality in 2018, the College was judged excellent for both student achievement and personal development, and in 2021, the College passed all elements of the Regulatory Compliance Inspection.
The curriculum is designed to be broad and stimulating, with over 25 subjects offered and a choice of A Level, IB Diploma or BTEC courses in the Sixth Form. Academic results are high and have been on an upward trajectory since 2015. Results in 2023 surpassed those achieved by the pre-pandemic 2019 cohort, with 90% of Sixth Form candidates achieving grades between A* and B at A Level, or 7–5 in the IB Diploma. At GCSE, two-thirds achieved between grades 9 and 7, with 48% scoring all 9s and 8s. All except a small handful of leavers progress to one of their top choices of university, with between five and eight each year to Oxbridge.
The College offers an outstanding range of co-curricular activities based on inclusive participation as well as excellence. In sports, students compete successfully at local, regional, and national levels in the main sports of football, hockey, swimming, netball, cricket, and athletics. Music, Art, Drama and Dance are equally thriving, with exciting programme of concerts, performances and exhibitions. In this, as in all ways, the school aims to live up to one of its mantras that nobody can excel in everything, but everyone can excel in something.
Local and global partnerships are integral to the College’s mission. Every week, hundreds of Ardingly pupils participate in an active voluntary service programme with the local community and primary schools, and the College sustains a STEM partnership with Ifield Community College, which was awarded the TES STEM project of the year in 2020. Internationally, the College opened its first overseas school in China in 2020 and is currently planning towards further schools in Kazakhstan and other geographies.
Campus facilities are excellent, with considerable recent investment in the College campus bringing it up to the highest school standards. Recent additions include a new STEM faculty and upgrades to classrooms, as well as major refurbishments of boarding and day houses. A new café and dance studio were opened in 2021 and new Lower School and a third day boys’ house in 2022.
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