• Capable of working with and earning the respect of senior stakeholders. • Ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels – both inside IT and across the wider university. • Ability to prepare high quality outputs such as papers for senior committees, reports and presentations. • Experience in managing budgets – both operational and investment. • Ability to build relationships at different levels of the organisation, as well as within the local team by fostering an inclusive approach. • Ability to deal with situations that require compromises, whether technical, financial or personnel. • Experience of working with technology suppliers, both in procurement and delivery of services. • Excellent presentation skills and the ability to create persuasive and accessible presentations to non-specialist staff at many levels of the organisation.
Person Specification
Required Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications, Experience
Desirable:
Essential:
• Experience of building and running strong technology teams within a large and diverse organisation.
• A good understanding of the range of IT services covered, including infrastructure, applications and service management in a large IT function.
• Experience of acting as chair of governance committees or boards.
• Track record of IT operational delivery, across multiple IT disciplines.
• Demonstrable high-level strategic thinking and planning skills.
• Broad knowledge of IT, including networks, infrastructure, end user computing and cloud. • Ability to lead, manage and motivate a large team, through both personal interaction and the setting of tone and culture. • Ability to identify and acknowledge the need for inclusivity within teams as well as through the services being offered.
• Demonstrable commitment to leadership development of self and others. • Experience in migrating to and supporting cloud-based services. Knowledge of the Higher Education sector.
• Experience of service delivery methods, including ITIL.
• Ability to take high level requirements and translate these into lower level delivery activities.
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