Network Manager - Northampton

[GrumbleDook]

For those who may not have seen this. Abbeyfield School - Vacancy - Network Manager

 

Abbeyfield School, Mereway, Northampton, NN4 8BU

 

Telephone No: 01604 763616

 

Fax No: 01604 765036

 

Network Manager

 

(Group I £23708 - £27052)

 

(37 hours per week- 52 weeks)

 

We are seeking to appoint a Network Manager with immediate effect to lead our IT Support Team.

 

Abbeyfield School is ‘a happy and improving school' Ofsted 2010 and is leading its teaching and learning initiatives by enhancing interaction in the classroom. Technological developments are at the heart of this drive for improvement. The school was rebuilt in 2008 and enjoys state of the art facilities.

 

The newly appointed Network Manager will report to the Deputy Headteacher and play a key role in leading the school forward in supporting curriculum provision, administrative support and developing the network. We are currently at an exciting stage of development of a virtual learning environment.

 

The main duties will include strategic planning, resource management and development and maintenance of all technical systems.

 

We would be interested to hear from suitably qualified applicants; we are an equal opportunities employer. The salary range will be in accordance with Northamptonshire County Council's grade boundaries for Group I in the range of £23708 - £27052.

 

Applications and job descriptions are available from Karen Wright on kwright @ abbeyfield.northants.sch.uk. Alternatively you can download them from the links below: (please access the job descriptions from the website linked at the beginning of this post.

 

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For *any* information on this job please contact the school directly.

 

Good to luck to those who apply (or who have applied)

[synaesthesia]

Any news on why Roy left this position?

[roycowper]

Any news on why Roy left this position?

 

I did try to PM you when you originally asked mate but apparently I haven't posted enough in the forums to be allowed to send PM's!!

 

It's absolutely nothing to do with the school, I've been at the school for a good number of years and enjoy working here. I have a new position elsewhere that I am moving to and therefore had to tender my resignation.

[synaesthesia]

Ah gotcha Could you give a little background on the position from your unique point of view? May be very useful for prospective applicants! (myself included)

[hillskill]

has the salary already been subject to pay and benefits review?

[roycowper]

Ah gotcha Could you give a little background on the position from your unique point of view? May be very useful for prospective applicants! (myself included)

 

The school is a normal 11-18 secondary with approximately 1200 students on role including the Sixth Form.

 

There are approximately 500 workstations in total spread across 4 buildings.

 

There are 8 dedicated PC based IT Suites and 1 Apple Mac suite, with other smaller banks of PC’s in certain classrooms. The PC’s are all Dell and run Windows XP with a view to moving to Windows 7 in the near future. The Mac Suite currently runs OS X 10.5 but the school is licensed for 10.6.

 

Active Directory based authentication with one of the DC’s being Svr2K8, the others 2k3. The Apple Macs also authenticate with AD using Apples magic triangle Open Directory combination.

 

The school is a newly built PFI school; the cabling infrastructure is all Cat 5e with 8 core fibre between the switch cabs. The switching is 3Com POE 5500 Enterprise Series and a 3Com telephone system.

 

Every member of teaching staff has their own laptop issued to them and almost all the teaching rooms are equipped with Smartboards. SIMS.net is the management system, lesson monitor for registers etc.

 

The school is currently implementing the RM Kaliedos VLE.

 

We use an AD integrated Smoothwall box for web filtering and Exchange 2007 for email.

 

Is that the kind of info you were after?

[roycowper]

has the salary already been subject to pay and benefits review?

 

It's an interesting question since I was due to be hit pretty hard by the P&B review but it's been advertised on what I would consider to be the correct scale.......

[hillskill]

Given the massive changes most IT school people had had to their saleries pending the review I would say the salery offered here means nothing unless they can confirm it has been subject to good old P & B!

[hillskill]

The school is a normal 11-18 secondary with approximately 1200 students on role including the Sixth Form.

 

There are approximately 500 workstations in total spread across 4 buildings.

 

There are 8 dedicated PC based IT Suites and 1 Apple Mac suite, with other smaller banks of PC’s in certain classrooms. The PC’s are all Dell and run Windows XP with a view to moving to Windows 7 in the near future. The Mac Suite currently runs OS X 10.5 but the school is licensed for 10.6.

 

Active Directory based authentication with one of the DC’s being Svr2K8, the others 2k3. The Apple Macs also authenticate with AD using Apples magic triangle Open Directory combination.

 

The school is a newly built PFI school; the cabling infrastructure is all Cat 5e with 8 core fibre between the switch cabs. The switching is 3Com POE 5500 Enterprise Series and a 3Com telephone system.

 

Every member of teaching staff has their own laptop issued to them and almost all the teaching rooms are equipped with Smartboards. SIMS.net is the management system, lesson monitor for registers etc.

 

The school is currently implementing the RM Kaliedos VLE.

 

We use an AD integrated Smoothwall box for web filtering and Exchange 2007 for email.

 

Is that the kind of info you were after?

 

Interesting that the school never opted for student wireless laptops- I suppose this isnt needed when you have a new build.

[synaesthesia]

Many thanks Roy, much appreciated

[GrumbleDook]

Given the massive changes most IT school people had had to their saleries pending the review I would say the salery offered here means nothing unless they can confirm it has been subject to good old P & B!

 

For that you would have to speak directly to the school about it.

[GrumbleDook]

A quick *bump* on this ... closing date is soon.

[roycowper]

The information I get from SLT is that this post has already gone through the review procedure and therefore will not be subject to it but if you want clarification, your best bet is to contact the school directly as GrumbleDook says.