Head of IT; care for children

Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Our client, a national charity and membership association representing children across the UK, provides facilities for the best possible care and education to young children. The voice of their sector and an integral part of the lives of nearly one million children and their families, the organization works with local and national government to develop an environment in which quality early years education and care can flourish.

To define and deliver the IT strategy, ensuring this is aligned to the current business priorities and the long-term business strategy.

Ensure the IT strategy meets business needs with clear and measurable outcomes focusing on value for money, financial, quality, regulatory, security, and contractual requirements.

Ensure the organization is fully supported and protected with appropriate IT infrastructure and systems.

To lead the IT team to ensure the organization receives effective support and delivers against the business objectives.

To deliver and embed sustainable, high quality, and cutting-edge IT capability and smarter business working solutions and systems that meet the needs of operations and central support functions.

To project manage key business projects to ensure they are delivered on-time, within budget, and in line with the project requirements.

To develop and deliver IT solutions that improve organizational efficiency and automate manual processes.

Communication: Facilitates clear and effective communication throughout the organization. Conveys sensitive and complex information in an appropriate way. Deals with difficult situations immediately, efficiently, effectively, and sensitively. Communicates with confidence and authority. Uses personal skills, knowledge, and impact to influence others.

Working with others: Puts team and organizational needs ahead of personal aspirations. Participates in activity across internal and external teams to achieve organizational objectives. Manages relationships to maximize effectiveness.

People development: Ensures that long and short-term organizational development needs are addressed in a cost-effective way. Monitors and reviews departmental infrastructure to enable staff to develop. Promotes a climate supportive of self-development. Recognizes, plans for, and acts upon the need to develop individuals for succession planning.

Leadership: Encourages and enables others to use professional judgment and act decisively. Continually challenges to ensure practices are aligned with vision, mission, values, and objectives. Uses own knowledge and draws on the knowledge of others to inform business planning. Inspires commitment and loyalty. Proactively develops the team to meet current and future planning needs.

Improvement and innovation: Uses internal and external resources and ideas to create innovative solutions. Informs strategic direction for change and continuous improvement. Explores options beyond current practice and assumptions. Enables identified improvements to be implemented for maximum benefit. Identifies and shares new or emerging areas of service.

Customer care: Champions the customer’s current and potential needs to drive organizational service delivery. Establishes and maintains long-term stakeholder relationships.

Commercial awareness: Monitors the external environment to identify underlying and emerging trends, shares information across teams, and takes or supports appropriate internal action. Recommends commercial decisions that benefit the whole organization. Understands the complexities and limitations of the organization. Recognizes the implications of the strategic position on decision-making.

Planning and organizing: Develops plans to meet organizational objectives. Identifies and recommends the best use of the organization’s resources to achieve objectives. Continually reviews, monitors, and plans, balancing short and long-term priorities. Champions initiatives and drives them to realization.

A positive approach: Creates an open, supportive environment to facilitate a ‘can do’ approach amongst others. Accurately assesses…