Assistant Director IT Delivery

UWE Bristol has an impressive list of credentials obtained through the hard work and dedication of all our students and staff.  As a future-focused university, we have a clear strategy through to 2030 where our priority is to deliver an outstanding university experience for our students through innovative, proactively led, research-informed courses.

Working across the University we are enabling the Strategy 2030 ambitions to be digitally agile, technology enabled and future focused. As part of this we are transforming the University’s IT landscape, with a clear enterprise architecture, along with supporting standards, principles and practices.

Working across the University, IT Services are enabling the Strategy 2030 ambitions to be digitally agile, technology enabled and future focused.  We are transforming the University’s IT landscape, making use of advanced cloud technologies to deliver an outstanding student experience.

The service plays a central role in UWE Bristol’s day to day operations while also delivering the transformational technology change required for Strategy 2030. Starting from Student Open Days and applications through to graduation and teaching, the whole student journey is increasingly dependent on technology and the capabilities it provides.

The Assistant Director will be a pro-active and influential leader, who can collaborate effectively with others, providing technology delivery services to the University. They will work in partnership with Professional Services and Academic colleagues, to ensure the technology supports the Universities aims and objectives both now and in the future.

This is an exciting opportunity that will lead a function of circa 60 with 6 direct reports covering software development, quality assurance and testing, project delivery and systems analysis.   

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed, while we continue to develop incredible new facilities to enhance our offer even further.

The campus has excellent transport links; we are within walking distance of two train stations, our bus terminus connects us to the local bus and Metrobus network and we also have a range of cycling and changing facilities.

In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including:

• a generous holiday allowance of 27 days
• up to 12.5 bank holiday/closure days per year
• hybrid working
• career average pension schemes available for all staff groups
• access to employee assistance programme
• 1^st month free to our Centre for Sport facilities for all new starters
• family friendly policies and wellbeing initiatives
• onsite nursery at our Frenchay Campus
• option to participate in the cycle to work scheme
• access to a wide variety of in-house training courses and development programmes

Further information

If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Mark Davis, IT Director email: mark5.davis@uwe.ac.uk

This is a full-time, permanent post, working 37 hours per week.

Tentative interview date is 14^th November 2023

This post is available on a job share basis for applicants wishing to work part time

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

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