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Director of Information & Technology.
Salary: c£92,000 per annum.
Location: Remote.
Contract: Permanent.
Benefits: 29 days annual leave pro rata PLUS bank holidays, professional qualifications, excellent training and development opportunities, flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages, up to 7% employer contribution pension, discount portal with your favourite brands.
Closing Date: Monday 7th August 2023.
1st stage interviews are scheduled for Thursday 17th August 2023 via MS Teams.
2nd stage interviews are scheduled for Tuesday 22nd August 2023 face to face in London.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It is the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children’s lives.
A Bit About The Role
This is a fantastic career opportunity for the successful candidate to own and deliver the IT strategy for the Charity and manage all the core and other systems with appropriate compliances in place along with robust security and other controls. You will focus on adoption of latest technologies to deliver strategic needs of the Charity and, to drive digitalisation and change programmes to support the improvement of working methods and efficiencies in meeting operational business requirements.
We are in the finalisation stage of a large ERP systems implementation project and the post holder is expected to play a key role to make that a successful transformation.
The post holder will be part of the Directors group and through that will have direct influence on all important operational and strategic matters of the Charity.
How you’ll help to create brighter futures
- Providing leadership, direction, and management to a range of professional staff.
- Leading strategic IT planning with a three-year rolling IT strategy to support the AfC achieving its goals and lead on Data Strategy and Data Governance.
- Horizon scanning for modern technologies, providing innovative solutions to improve efficiency across the Charity.
- Facilitating consultation as necessary and communicate IT plans and progress to wider audiences, including with the Directors Group.
- Ensuring there is clear direction with expected deliverables, milestones, and target timelines for leads of each team and monitor on a regular basis.
- Identifying opportunities for appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT.
- Ensuring continuous delivery and improvement of IT services through oversight of service level agreements with end users.
- Providing reports for Trustees, committees, and management teams, to agreed timelines and reporting standards.
Let’s talk about you
- A relevant management qualification at degree level or equivalent and experience of working at a senior management level in IT within a matching size organisation.
- Experience of leading the delivery of the Technology Strategy, working in a large, diverse, and complex organisation.
- An effective organiser who can identify priorities, motivate, and direct the team in managing the workload effectively and efficiently.
- Experience of identifying strategic needs of the Technology Department and develop these into corporate objectives and clear plans.
- Experience of culture and organisational change to support the delivery of Technology Strategy and to develop and encourage innovative ideas to drive improvement.
- Proven and established convening and influencing skills to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders.
Please see the Job Description for the full list of accountabilities and requirements.
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we’re dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Don’t meet every single requirement?
Studies show that women and Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with the job description, we’d love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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