Senior Network Manager

Job Advertisement: Senior Network Manager

Contract type: Permanent- 37 hours per week, Full time- Full Year

Location: The Kingsway School, Gatley

Salary: SO2 Scale point 26 - 31 (£36,124- £40,476) dependent upon experience.   

Closing date:  Friday 3rd January 2024 (We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role)

Interview date: TBC

Details of the Role

The Kingsway School, part of the Education Learning Trust, are seeking to employ a Senior Network Manager to work 37 hours per week, full year within our busy IT department.

This will be an integral role and will help in the smooth running of the school.

You will have experience in:

• Maintaining a school Capita Sims system
• Managing the ICT support team
• Installing and managing Hardware equipment; maintaining school networks; Software
• installation, troubleshooting; User Management, including passwords and log on details
• Managing and developing an IT infrastructure  

You will also have the motivation to make a real difference to our school community and excellent people skills.

For further details of this exciting opportunity, please see the job description and person specification.

Please return applications to: recruitment@kingsway.stockport.sch.uk

About ELT

Education Learning Trust is a Multi-Academy Trust, educating over 3500 pupils from age 2 to 16 in the Greater Manchester area. We are very proud of our inclusive ethos to Collaborate, Empower and Achieve and provide over 450 employees with an inspiring and innovative place to work, with exceptional training and development opportunities. 

As a Trust employee you will receive excellent benefits, including a highly competitive salary, well-regarded pension scheme, excellent career development opportunities and support for your health and wellbeing, with our award-winning employee assistance programme.

Our vision at ELT is to create an exceptional learning journey for all, by providing:

●      Exciting, innovative and challenging learning communities

●      School improvement strategies arising from evidenced based research and professional enquiry

●      Opportunities for professional development and leadership

●      A celebration of the diversity and uniqueness of individual settings 

●      Innovation in practice by recognising the value of learning partnerships, both locally and nationally

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  

We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures that promote safeguarding and safer working practices. This is in line with statutory guidance including Keeping Children Safe in Education and The Education Act 2002.

All offers of employment are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records, online checks and vetting checks. It is an offence to apply for a role if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

We are committed to fulfilling our Equality Duty obligations, including valuing equality and diversity and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.  

We are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, sex, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief.

 We expect the successful candidate to have the necessary standard of spoken English, as described under Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, the Public Sector fluency duty that requires state funded schools to ensure candidates for their customer facing roles have the necessary standard of spoken English (or English or Welsh in Wales).

Candidates should apply by completing the ELT application form, CVs alone will not be accepted in accordance with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE).