IT Training Manager
Office for Students
About the job
Job summary
This is a dual banded position
OfS Pay band 8: £42,001 - £44,151
A developmental role, staff will typically be recruited based on their likely aptitude to be able to develop the competencies
OfS Pay band 9: £51,846 - £56,662
Staff will fully deliver the outcomes expected.
The Office for Students (OfS) is the statutory regulator for higher education in England. Our aim is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We do this by regulating the higher education providers on our register to make sure they are delivering high quality courses and positive outcomes for their students; where they are not, we take action.
We are searching for a new IT Training Manager to shape, drive and deliver the IT training strategy for the organisation. If you are someone who combines their love of training with a real enthusiasm for technology, and are seeking an opportunity to blend your professional training expertise and innovation to have a real impact on the organisation, then we’d like to hear from you
Job description
Join us and you will enjoy the autonomy to take ownership of all aspects of IT training across the organisation to ensure that OfS staff are confident and competent in their use of the organisation’s IT. It will mean having the skills to interpret the business reasons for IT solutions, knowing what impact that will have, and the expertise to translate IT into business speak.
This role is much more than delivering traditional classroom-based learning day in day out. Far from it, this is an integral role within the IT team that touches on many areas beyond that of ‘training’; shaping IT communications, overseeing the deployment of new features, driving continuous service improvement; acting as the advocate for users - this role is expected to contribute wherever the worlds of IT and users meet.
Person specification
To succeed, you will.
- have excellent interpersonal skills and emotional awareness
- have outstanding communication skills – articulate, confident and assertive
- have a wide and varied experience of training IT systems
- be well versed in combining and blending a variety of different training approaches
- have a broad understanding of IT as a business function
- generate your own work and have the drive and enthusiasm to seek out new opportunities for the role
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £42,001, Office for Students contributes £11,340 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.
We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two to three days in a typical week.
To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part-time working, applies to the role.
Closing date for applications: 19 May 2024
Interviews: From 27 May 2024
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
- Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.