Graduate Trainee

About the Role

As an IT Services Graduate Trainee, you will join a two-year structured development programme designed to build your experience across a range of digital and technology services.

Through rotational placements and project-based work, you will gain practical experience in areas such as service management, infrastructure, software and data engineering, AI and automation, cyber security, digital transformation, business improvement and stakeholder engagement.

Working alongside experienced colleagues, you will support day-to-day services, contribute to projects and service improvements, analyse information, help develop guidance and documentation, and engage with staff, students and external partners. The programme will help you build the technical, analytical and professional skills needed for a future career in higher education technology.

About You

You will be a graduate with a 2:1 degree or above and a strong interest in technology and digital innovation. You will have good communication, analytical and problem-solving skills, enjoy working collaboratively, and be organised, adaptable and keen to learn. Above all, you will be motivated to develop your career while contributing to services that support Queen Marys staff and students.

About the School/Department/Institute/Project

IT Services department at the University encompasses a range of services including project management, infrastructure support, application development, technical assistance, research, and relationship/account management for both staff and students. The University acknowledges the importance of investing in IT to meet the expectations of its stakeholders and maintain success in the Higher Education sector.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, weve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because its simply the right thing to do but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. Its an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Marys commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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