The Ascentis Group
Location
Lancaster, Lancashire | United Kingdom
Job description
Salary: £62,900
Working Pattern: Full-time Monday to Friday 35 hours per week (flexible working patterns considered)
Contract Types: Permanent
Location: Head office, Lancaster (hybrid working patterns can be considered)
Are you a dynamic IT leader ready to drive Ascentis to digital excellence? As our Head of IT, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing our IT strategy, fostering innovation, and supporting digital transformation across The Ascentis Group.
The Job Description
As the Head of IT, you'll be the driving force behind our IT strategy, fostering a culture of innovation within the department. A key focus of the role will be to lead the way in innovating our technology landscape and collaborating across teams to ensure that our IT initiatives align with business objectives and emerging technologies. Your strategic insights and operational expertise will be crucial in shaping the technological future of the organisation.
Your responsibilities will also include developing and managing robust and resilient infrastructures to enhance information gathering and electronic processes. This involves staying informed about regulatory requirements, making recommendations to management, and ensuring compliance with relevant IT-related legislation. You'll also take charge of IT within subsidiary companies of Ascentis where applicable.
We are seeking an individual with a solid understanding of strategic and operational objectives. Your experience in implementing innovative solutions will be highly valued. As a key player in our ongoing growth journey, your role will not only contribute to the ongoing development and excellence within our IT department but also contribute significantly to the overall advancement of Ascentis.
Experience in managing ERP and CRM as well as administering a Microsoft-based environment is required. This includes familiarity with Microsoft 365, Azure, SQL Server, Azure Active Directory and similar technologies.
As the Head of IT, you have the chance to truly influence our organisation and empower our team to thrive. If you have a genuine passion for driving innovation in IT, coupled with the skills and experience we seek, we'd be thrilled to receive your application. Take the next step to become our Head of IT and contribute to our ongoing growth and success. Join us in shaping the technological future of The Ascentis Group!
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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should a suitable candidate be appointed.
About Us
In this role, you’ll be based in our state-of-the-art office on Lancaster Business Park. We have some amazing facilities which have been designed around bringing all of our team together. This includes loads of fun, creative spaces for collaboration including a Harry Potter-themed room, Alice in Wonderland-inspired room, Xbox, pool table, and outdoor seating. What’s more, we offer an excellent range of benefits (detailed below) and offer flexible working patterns. We are passionate about delivering a consistently positive day-to-day experience and environment for our employees.
Ascentis is a charity and leading awarding body, working across the UK and internationally to provide life-changing opportunities through our range of qualifications. We work closely with colleges, schools, independent training organisations and universities to design cutting-edge qualifications to enable people to progress to further study, higher education, and employment.
Working here you have the ‘feel good factor’, knowing that what you do makes a difference, but this is blended with our commercially minded approach which ensures we succeed and grow.
As an employer, we invest in developing our people and are extremely proud of the internal progression of many of our talented people.
To find out what our employees have to say about working at The Ascentis Group watch the video found here .
So, what are you waiting for?
If you like the sound of the role and the organisation, and you think the above attributes describe you well, then we would love to hear from you.
Benefits at Ascentis
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