IT Operations Manager

Your new company
This organisation is a well-established, values-driven education group operating a network of independent schools across England. With a strong reputation for academic excellence and innovation, they support a diverse community of staff and students across multiple sites, including locations in Sheffield, Nottingham, Norwich and Northampton. The schools blend a rich heritage with a forward-thinking approach, placing a strong emphasis on digital transformation, modern learning environments, and high-quality support services, with technology playing a critical role in enabling teaching, learning, and operational efficiency across the organisation. The IT function underpins a geographically dispersed estate, providing robust infrastructure, responsive support, and ongoing improvements to systems and services and this is an exciting opportunity to join a collaborative and evolving IT team, contributing to the delivery of reliable, secure, and user-focused technology solutions across a varied and dynamic educational landscape.

Your new role
As IT Operations Manager, you will take ownership of IT service delivery across a cluster of 4 schools, ensuring that infrastructure, systems and support services operate reliably, securely, and in line with organisational standards, also being responsible for a team of 8 across these sites. Working on a hybrid basis but also across multiple sites (including Sheffield, Nottingham, Norwich and Northampton), you will play a pivotal role in delivering consistent, high-quality IT services within a geographically distributed environment. You will act as the senior technical lead for your cluster, balancing operational oversight with strategic input and this includes driving forward IT planning, supporting digital transformation initiatives, and ensuring technology effectively underpins teaching, learning and day-to-day operations. This will include leading annual IT planning processes (including budgets), leading change in relation to infrastructure, acting as the technical escalation point, having responsibility for security and disaster recovery, as well as quality assurance and compliance. From an operational perspective, you will manage a team of 8 technicians and senior technicians, being responsible for their performance management and development, working closely with them around IT strategy and ensuring that the level of service remains high at each site.
What you'll need to succeed
To be successful in securing this position, you will be an experienced IT Manager from the education sector with both staff management experience, and a strong technical background. You will ideally have experience working in a multi-site role, however this isn't essential. You will have a passion for working in the education sector, providing a high level of technical support and a strong understanding of how this impacts teaching and learning in the classroom.
What you'll get in return
In return, you will be paid a competitive salary of between £50,000 and £58,000 depending on experience, and receive an excellent benefits package. This package includes 30 days holiday (plus bank), access to an attractive pension scheme, access to a cycle to work and tech scheme and a free lunch each day when on site. This is an incredibly exciting opportunity for an experienced leader from the education sector to move into a multi-site role, where you will receive CPD and significant development from the trust.
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