Your new company

Hays Technology are recruiting a Director of IT to join a growing and ambitious public sector organisation based across the UK on an initial 24-month FTC. The role will report to the Chief Finance Officer and can be worked remotely but will have monthly travel to Leeds/London and Brighton.

Your new role

In your new role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day operational management and strategic delivery of the IT department of around 50 staff across the organisation, ensuring they are supporting colleagues and service user needs. You will be ensuring effective IT information governance strategies are in line with applicable standards, ensuring that IT systems, infrastructure and data are secure against internal and external threats, and positive effective and appropriate measures for risk management.

You will be a strong technical leader with experience of operational IT and will be working with key stakeholders to deliver the digital strategy of the organisation, ensuring that required changes in technical platforms, capacity, capability, and techniques are understood, defined, and planned. You will be providing support and collaborative leadership to the department Heads, working with them to achieve deadlines, make improvements and ensure objectives are met.

What you'll need to succeed

• Experience of leading as a Director or CTO of an IT/Digital function in a large, multi-location organisation
• Experience of delivering large scale IT change
• Experience of project management approaches, and making them fit to the organisation's context
• Solid technical knowledge across infrastructure, applications,data, service, security, development and projects
• Ability to work at a fast pace in a dynamic environment
• Strong leadership skills to develop and lead broad ranging IT teams.
• Able to communicate across the organisation to all colleagues, and external stakeholders

What you'll get in return

This exciting position is paying up to £100,000 negotiable on experience and offers an excellent work life balance including: home working, 25 days annual leave, company pension scheme, flexibility, training, and development opportunities.

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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