ICT Network Manager or Senior ICT Technician

[tekee]

Salary

Senior ICT Technician £26,000-£28,000;

ICT Network Manager £29,000-£35,000 (depending on qualifications and experience)

 

 

Required as soon as possible, an enthusiastic and committed ICT Network Manager is sought to manage our extensive ICT Network provision within this very large and busy school. The applicant will need to build on the considerable success achieved by the previous post-holders. ICT lies at the very heart of our Learning and Teaching agenda as we seek to raise attainment within the school. As well as having over 1400 workstations across the school, the ICT provision is state-of-the-art and requires someone with considerable knowledge of the following systems: CISCO Routers & Switches, EMC-Dell SAN, VMWare ESX Enterprise, Microsoft - Enterprise Server Edition, Exchange 2007, Office Share Point Server, SQL 2005, Novell Zenworks Configuration Management, Unix - Apache, Nagios and Syslog servers, Capita SIMS server etc. The ICT Network Manager leads the work of a team of full-time and part-time ICT technicians. In addition the applicant will need to work closely with the VLE Manager, Data Manager and a variety of other user groups. Leadership and Management skills essential.

 

 

 

We offer:

• 71% 5 A*-C GCSEs including Maths and English

• a multi-cultural, oversubscribed, high-performing, 11- 19 comprehensive school

• a vibrant, flourishing Post 16 Centre of 550 students; 99% of Year 13 progress to university

• friendly, dynamic and enthusiastic colleagues – including a new Headteacher

• excellent, state-of-the-art facilities in a well-resourced, new school

• interactive technology across the school

• Greenford High School is a Training School which offers excellent CPD programmes

 

Location: Southall, London Borough of Ealing

Starting Date: negotiable, preferably asap

Closing Date: 22nd October 9.00 am

 

Application packs are available from Dawn Druce (PA to Headteacher/HR) – [email protected] or 020 8578 9152, or from the school website http://www.greenford.ealing.sch.uk

[rad]

Sorry if you are linked, is this one post or two?

The website currently shows "no Vacancies" just wondered where it was seen.

[tekee]

Sorry, the website is about to be updated give it half an hour. And just to confirm this is for one post for either a Network Manager or Senior IT Technician.

[featured_spectre]

Rad I have the same issue...I am unable to find it

[tekee]

It's on the site now

[Iain.Faulkner]

I wish this was in the Northwest, looks really good.

[HarryMonkey]

Sorry, the website is about to be updated give it half an hour. And just to confirm this is for one post for either a Network Manager or Senior IT Technician.

 

Is this because the current senior tech is likely to get the NM position?

[tekee]

It's a great opportunity for anyone with the skill set to move up the chain of command. The network here really is good and has everything you could want to get stuck in to.

 

A bit of a copy/paste from the application details...

 

The school presently has a large network of more than 1400 workstations including 150 laptops with a state of the art data centre having Cisco 6513 core switches, more than 20TB of EMC SAN storage, more than 15 physical servers and same number of virtual servers running in a VMWARE ESX Enterprise environment. Our Data centre is based on:

• Dell’s 2950 and 1950 server hardware as well as some legacy Intel servers.

• Backup solution is based on disk-disk-tape topology with tape solution on Dell ML6000 (LTO3) tape library.

• All servers run on Windows 2003 SR2 or Debian / Red Hat unix.

• School’s network is based on a pure vanilla server side with Novell’s Zenworks ver 10 deployed for workstation imaging; remote desktop management as well as application roll out.

• In addition, school’s VLE runs on MOSS 2007 (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server) which includes SLK 2007, MS Exchange 2007 and SQL 2005.

• School’s management information systems run on Capita’s SIMS software.

• School’s telephony system runs over the structured cabling with BT ISDN line, Mitel’s 3300 ICP VoIP server and IP5212 telephones deployed to the desks.

• School’s internet backbone is provided by Synetrix via LGfL network.

• School’s website is built and managed in-house.

• JVC provided CCTV solution with about 100 IP cameras and network video recorders.

 

Greenford High school’s campus style premises have 7 blocks and boast an impressive coverage of the whole school with 12 core fibre optic connection to each block from the main comms room. An individual comms room for each block and CAT6 structured cabling to the end user device throughout with more than 2500 data outlets. The wireless coverage is site wide using Cisco Aironet solution.

 

Included in the 1400+ workstations across the school, there are about 25 ICT suites. All 90+ teaching rooms are equiped with teacher’s workstation, Promethean’s Active Board, Epson projectors and Nuvo sound system. All workstations run Windows XP and have loads of curriculum software installed in addition to Microsoft Office 2007. Printing and scanning facilities are available throughout school. Learning Resource Area (for 6th form) has 95 workstations for use by students throughout the school day.

 

 

 

If anyone has any questions feel free to post here and i'll do my best to answer them.

[tekee]

Is this because the current senior tech is likely to get the NM position?

 

He will probably apply, but he's no more likely to get it than anyone else.

[HarryMonkey]

I applied for this job when it was first advertised quite some time ago. I must admit, the facilities at the school are very impressive with an extremely friendly staff as well. A great opportunity for someone closer than me.

[dsk]

Never mind, the ICT manager job description actually included the Senior tech! Edited October 6, 2010 by dsk
me being silly

[mattx]

Did anyone from Edugeek get this position anyone know ?

[featured_spectre]

I applied but wasnt even offered a tour of the facilities, explanation given that I didnt meet the requirements wanted for Senior Tech

[mattx]

I applied but wasnt even offered a tour of the facilities, explanation given that I didnt meet the requirements wanted for Senior Tech

 

This job advert was a racket from the start - I'm sure it was filled internally, you have got ICT qualifications etc, I haven't [ too old ] so I'm surprised you didn't get a tour.

[featured_spectre]

I was shocked, as was my boss, especially when we both said I should have walked that job spec with my eyes shut.

[IanT]

Isn't there a legal requirement to advertise a job externally as well as internally? - I may be wrong, someone please correct me.

 

If they know the internal candidate will get it why waste other peoples time coming for the interviews!

[DrCheese]

Because of what you said, it's a legal requrement to offer the job externally. I do find the law somewhat silly given that most of the time the internal candidate gets the job regardless. It wastes everyones time. Edited November 26, 2010 by DrCheese

[IanT]

Yup, I agree

[mattx]

Fine, offer the job internally but then there is no need to lie when it comes to the 'not qualified' clap trap. Specially when certain people applying have registered ICT certifications !!

[HarryMonkey]

First time round, having gone through the interview, the tour (nice school btw), the test etc. I was turned down because I lived too far away. As did the other candidate from Norwich.

[dsk]

I applied but didnt get anything back. I guess i wasnt good enough

[IanT]

First time round, having gone through the interview, the tour (nice school btw), the test etc. I was turned down because I lived too far away. As did the other candidate from Norwich.

 

Lived too far away! surely they could of noticed that on your CV before calling you in.

[dwhyte85]

Wait, inviting 2 people from miles away for interview... naughty.

[mattx]

Wait, inviting 2 people from miles away for interview... naughty.

 

They needed the excuse as to not to employ them. I hope they claimed traveling allowances.

[dsk]

It is a bit suspect i think. Maybe i lacked something, but considering i was already doing the job in another school (2 and half years now) in the borough and this was even closer to where i lived, i thought i would have at least got a call back!