IT Student Systems Manager

The full-time starting salary is normally £52,462 per annum, with progression available in post to £60,842 per annum.

Grade: H

Full-Time, Permanent Role.

Birmingham City University is a large, diverse, and popular place to study. Defined and driven by our values: We Create Opportunity, We Think Differently and We Build Community – It makes us passionate and proud of our University and our City.

The University is ambitious and has a strong focus on student experience. We are always looking for talented individuals, filled with similar ambition and desire to support and progress our position in the Higher Education space.

We have an opportunity for an experienced IT Student Systems Manager who will lead and manage the IT Student Systems Development team and will be responsible for the IT service ownership including the development, enhancement, optimisation and maintenance of student systems. The team is responsible for the analysis, development and testing of solutions to a high standard and quality to provide performant student systems that are reliable, agile and maintainable.

You will oversee the integration between these systems and other external systems ensuring that the systems meet the requirements of the University whilst continuing to evolve and improve to meet emerging needs and opportunities and deliver efficient business processes aligned to the Universities strategic direction.

Candidates with extensive experience in the use and development of corporate student systems and experience of the management of student systems including technical environment, version management and system monitoring will be welcomed.  Foundation in ITIL based service delivery is essential. Educated to degree level or above. The ideal candidate will also hold excellent verbal and written communication skills, analytical skills, be self-motivated, and be able to demonstrate a proven track record of delivering student system services.

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Job Description

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.

Birmingham City University is deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusivity at all levels in the organisation, and to addressing underrepresentation in our workforce to ensure we are truly representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds and communities for this role, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic applicants.

The University is proudly Disability Confident. This means amongst other things that we commit to offering a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who fully meet the essential criteria for each role.

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.