Schools Technology Manager
The Girls' Day School Trust
Westminster
- Expired
- Salary:
- £46,000 to £60,000 pa depending on experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 30 July 2017
Job overview
Location: Home Base – With regular visits to school and Trust Office
We are looking for an experienced IT expert to head up our Schools Technology Team.
This is a new function within the Information Technology Service team at the GDST. The team will work with schools on a daily basis to ensure that they are getting the best use from the technology solutions available. Acting as a consultant, you will guide the teams in setting their technology path and future direction of travel.
We are looking for someone with a strong educational background, maybe as a former teacher or as a school digital leader. The ideal candidate will have credibility with both school teaching staff and technical staff. The GDST has put digital learning at the heart of its agenda, and this role is key in delivering this successfully.
Diplomacy and collaboration are essential in this role; it is all about helping our schools to use technologies to the best of their ability, it’s about helping schools learn how to do it, rather than doing it for them.
We have a wide technical platform, with schools invested in Apple, Google, and Microsoft technologies, you will need to be agnostic to them all.
This role can be home-based or based out of our Trust Office (London). It is expected that the post holder will spend 1 day a week in the Trust Office, and the rest either in school or working from home.
This is an exciting time to join a progressive and evolving team, taking on the challenges of ensuring we have the right systems to support the education of our girls and schools.
Along with a competitive salary, we offer a great working environment, generous pension scheme, professional development opportunities and 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
Closing date for applications is 5pm Monday 31st July.
Interviews are scheduled for Wednesday 9th August.
Applications should be submitted to ITS-recruitment@wes.gdst.net
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About The Girls' Day School Trust
The GDST is the leading network of independent girls’ schools in the UK, with nearly 4,000 staff and 20,000 students in our 24 schools and two academies. The majority of GDST schools take girls all through, from the age of three to 18 (there are about 6,000 pupils in GDST Junior schools). Founded in 1872, the GDST has a long history of pioneering innovation in the education of girls, and is the largest single educator of girls in the UK (and the UK’s largest educational charity).
Working with the GDST
Many teachers have never contemplated working in the independent sector, yet every year teachers join the GDST from the maintained sector, or as NQTs, and are pleasantly surprised by both the similarities and the differences.
The GDST provides an excellent range of employment opportunities throughout England and Wales. GDST staff benefit from our 140-year history of excellence and innovation in girls’ education, with many opportunities to share ideas and best practice with colleagues across the network. They have access to an extensive central training and professional development programme to complement school-based INSET, and also funding grants for individual courses of study.
Competitive salary scales and other excellent conditions of service are standard across the GDST, and employees have access to pension schemes and a range of other staff benefits.
The GDST is committed to the safeguarding of children, and child protection screening applies to all posts.
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