IT Development Manager
Oakbank School
Bradford
- Expired
- Salary:
- SCP 41-44 (£35,662-£38,405)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 8 September 2015
Job overview
We are now looking to recruit an experienced IT Development Manager to work with the senior and department leaders to ensure that the IT supports and enhances student’s education. You will have responsibility for overseeing two technicians, the school network, website and all ICT hardware and software.
What we are looking for someone with:
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft networks, VMWare and supporting infrastructure.
- A creative approach to solving problems
- The ability to drive forward IT solutions which support teaching and learning and aid progress for students.
- Experience of work with a wide range of people across all levels.
What we can offer you:
- A supportive aspirational leadership team.
- Ring fenced capital budget for the next two years to support IT development and prepare for the new build.
- An opportunity to develop and drive an ICT strategy across the school.
- A stimulating and friendly working environment with committed hard working staff.
- Working with honest, aspirational students, who are full of character and have a lot of potential.
Oakbank is a popular Foundation Secondary school, pleasantly situated in the Bronte Pennines. We have 1600 students on role, including 240 in the sixth form. We have recently been recognised as a top 200 most improved school and our 6th Form is recognised as being in the top 15% of 6th Forms by Alps.
We are currently finalising plans, under the Priority School Building Programme, for a new school build which is due to start in early 2016 and complete in summer 2017.
Oakbank School is fully committed to safeguarding children and promoting their welfare, and all posts are subject to an Enhanced DBS check.
Closing date: 8th September 2015 9:00am.
Interviews will take place w/c 14th September 2015.
About Oakbank School
Oakbank School is a Foundation co-educational comprehensive school catering for students aged 11 to 19. It has approximately 1650 students, of whom 200 are in our sixth form. We take in 300 pupils a year. Foundation status means that we are a local authority maintained school but we are our own employers, run our own admissions policy, own our own land.
Since 2011 we have put “Student Achievement First” at the heart of everything we do. Our results (41% in 2010 to 51% in 2012 5A*-CEM, the Sixth Form is regarded as excellent) are improving but we still have a lot of work to do before we can become an outstanding school.
The school is on a very pleasant extensive site. It has a full range of facilities, including playing fields, an artificial turf pitch, sports hall, 2 gyms, drama studio, dance studio, music and practice rooms, design and technology areas, 13 science laboratories, a highly praised learning centre and many other specialist areas. We also have a specialist Learning Support Unit. We have a separate sixth form block. In July 2012 we have been selected to be part of the “Priority Schools Building Programme” and are awaiting details on how we can deliver a 21st Century learning environment.
We see ourselves as a dynamic school that sees change as a driver for improvement. In 2012 we changed the timing of the school day, leadership structure, re-established the house system etc. In 2013 we will introduce a radical new curriculum that will provide appropriate pathways for all our students.
We also believe that school is more than just lessons. We were a specialist sports college and have a tradition of sporting success in football, rugby league, netball, badminton, track and field and in 2012 we became an All Rugby school, one of only a hundred comprehensive schools in the country chosen by the RFU. In addition we have over 100 students taking part in a production of “Les Miserables” due to be performed in March 2013.
David Maxwell
Headteacher
Oakbank School is fully committed to safeguarding children and promoting their welfare, and all posts are subject to an Enhanced CRB check.
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