Senior IT Technician - Watford Grammar School for Boys - £24,040 to £26,099 closes Mon 6th June 9am:
Further information is available on our website at https://www.watfordboys.org/48/jobvacancies. Completed application forms to Ian Cooksey, Headmaster,
[email protected].
Job Description:
Full time, 37 hours per week, term time. Normally some work is also carried out in the school holidays for example 15 days across the year. This amount can be discussed with the applicant and the salary offered adjusted accordingly. For example term time plus 3 weeks at Grade H7 gives an actual salary starting at £24,040 and increasing to £26,099 per annum.
About Us:
Watford Grammar School for Boys is a high achieving school with Academy status. We are committed to developing and investing in our IT infrastructure and ensuring that systems and structures enhance the education of our students. All students in years 8-13 bring a digital device into school every day. As well as other benefits and wellbeing initiatives, our Admissions Policy prioritises children of staff.
About you:
We are seeking to appoint a highly organised, team player to work as part of our IT team. The enthusiastic, well-qualified and experienced IT Technician will help to provide IT support to students, staff and parents in this large school of approximately 1500 students and 170 staff. The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology, together with excellent technical and problem-solving skills. The successful candidate should show excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to communicate easily, clearly, and politely with end-users with various levels of IT literacy.
Job Purpose:
· To maintain and develop the school’s ICT resource for safe, effective use by pupils and staff.
· To support and advise pupils and staff in the appropriate use of ICT.
· To define procedures and provide advanced technical support.
· To be responsible for keeping appropriate records.
Essential attributes:
· Excellent technical and problem-solving skills
· Flexible and dynamic approach to work
· Highly motivated and willing to take ownership of problems
· Proactive, approachable and supportive, able to support and develop junior members of staff
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Show an ability to learn new technologies and to have a passion for IT
Desirable knowledge and experience:
· HP servers, switches and SAN
· Active Directory, Group Policy, DHCP, DNS, WSUS, RDS, and network printing solutions
· Virtualisation technologies (We have Hyper-V)
· Microsoft 365
· Google Suite ie Google Mail, Google Classroom etc
· Windows server and desktop operating systems
· Server backup technologies (We have VEEAM and DPM)
· Configuring network switches, routers, and the wi-fi system
· Maintaining IT Security, Watchguard Firewall, Sophos Anti Virus
· Is able to maintain, upgrade and repair a wide range of PCs and peripherals
· Is aware of H&S procedures and able to raise awareness among staff, pupils and other users.
We hope that you do have knowledge and experience in the desired areas, however training can also be provided.
The post holder will be expected to carry out such other duties as reasonably correspond to the general character of the post and are commensurate with its level of responsibility.
Further information is available on our website at https://www.watfordboys.org/48/jobvacancies. Completed application forms to Ian Cooksey, Headmaster,
[email protected].
The school is committed to safeguarding children and young people. All post holders are subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS Check. The closing date for applications is 9am Monday 6th June 2022
