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Shelter Hiring for Head of IT at London, Sheffield or Edinburgh, with scope for home working plus regular travel Full Time
Closing date: 14th April 2022 at 11.30pm
Are you an accomplished IT professional with significant experience of leading change, managing risk, improving performance and managing and delivering robust and secure enterprise IT services that support flexibility and innovation? Then join Shelter as Head of IT, where you’ll be critical to the development, management and implementation of Information systems and IT infrastructure strategy to help us deliver our organisational strategy.
About Shelter
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.
We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
About the team
The ITÂ function works to ensure Shelter’s IT software, systems and infrastructure remain available, flexible and secure and comprises of two units: The IT Service Desk team provides a single point of contact for Shelter staff and volunteers offering support, advice and technical escalation. The IT Operations team maintains and develops our end user environment and infrastructure, ensuring Shelter’s IT services remain available and secure.
About the roleÂ
As Head of IT, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the effective management of all IT systems and associated technology across Shelter and a high-quality IT function supports delivery of our strategy and meets the needs of business stakeholders. We’ll also rely on you to lead on developing and refining our organisational IT strategic plan and ensure the effective resourcing and delivery of IT services and priorities. Along the way, you’ll get to lead and develop a team of infrastructure and support engineers, managers and 1st line service desk officers and work collaboratively with Heads of other departments. Leading on IT security and the specification, selection and implementation of IT systems, drafting business cases, proposals and actions plans and developing and maintaining performance metrics to ensure projects deliver the agreed benefits – all are aspects of this business-critical role.
About you
Ideally relevantly qualified, you’re experienced in strategic planning and translating strategy into operational delivery and using your commercial/financial expertise to drive an organisation forward. You also have significant knowledge of existing & emerging technologies and how they can be applied to achieve business value/operational efficiency. Experience in procuring and managing external IT services is important too, as is a track record of managing large scale IT projects with cross-organisational impact and implementing and managing enterprise Cyber Security measures and technology. What’s more, you’re used to managing complex, enterprise IT architectures and systems, both on premise and in the cloud, and are fully conversant with WAN and LAN technologies, MS Azure, O365, Dynamics, Windows Server O/S etc. Crucially, you have experience of building, motivating and managing IT teams and an understanding of matrix working, plus you’re comfortable negotiating and influencing at all levels, including with senior leaders and suppliers.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.
To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.
Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.Â
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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Contact Name: Shelter
Reference:
TJ/9358/043399
Job ID:
3069734