Technology Support Manager

Spencer Academies Trust; Derby; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent educational charity is seeking a Technology Support Manager based in Derby to enhance IT services across the Trust. This role requires a strong commitment to delivering top-notch IT support and managing innovative technological solutions that improve the educational experience. Candidates should possess a relevant degree and experience in IT support within education. Apply now to join a passionate team and help shape the future of technology in education!

Benefits

Generous Local Government Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Qualifications

• Experience in providing support in educational environments.
• Knowledge of IT services and infrastructure administration.
• Ability to adopt and implement new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage One Spencer IT Service effectively.
• Deliver high-quality IT support across the Trust.
• Lead technological innovations to enhance educational services.

Skills

IT support

Technology management

Problem-solving

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Intune

Serverless technologies

Job description

Location: Derby, UK

Salary: NJC22-26 (£33,699 - £37,280)

Education Phase: Secondary

Working Pattern: Full-Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Application Deadline: Tuesday, 30th September 2025

About Us

Exciting Opportunity: Join Our Team as a Technology Support Manager!

Are you passionate about technology and committed to delivering top-notch IT support? We are on the lookout for a dynamic individual to fill the role of Technology Support Manager.

As a key player in our team, you'll be based in Derby. However, your impact will extend beyond, as you take on a central role in managing the One Spencer IT Service, ensuring a seamless technology experience across the Trust.

You'll be at the forefront of technological innovation, responding to the evolving needs of our educational institutions, as we embark on moving our IT from a managed service into a full in-house service. Adopting new technologies such as Intune and other serverless technologies.

Join us on this journey where every day presents a new technological challenge and an opportunity to make a significant impact in the education sector. If you're ready to embrace a dynamic role that goes beyond the ordinary, we invite you to be a part of our passionate team. Apply now and be a driving force in shaping the future of IT in education!

SAT is an educational charity, Multi-Academy Trust and Sponsor of Academies. We have approaching 18000 children and young people in our academies and employ more than 2500 teachers, leaders and educational support professionals across the East Midlands. We aspire to be a leading regional high performing Trust, with a national reputation for excellence.

We currently have 18 primary academies, 8 secondary academies and 1 primary aged special school in our family of schools. All of our schools benefit from the collaboration and added value that being a member of our Trust offers, and share our values and beliefs. Spencer Trust academies share an ambition to deliver results that compete with the very highest performing schools in the country, and deliver a curriculum for students that is underpinned by breadth, opportunity and quality: one that seeks to give young people the opportunity to develop into well rounded global citizens that believe they can influence positive change in the world.

Mission

Our Mission is to deliver the best possible outcomes for children and young people.

Vision

Spencer Academies Trust is an exceptional Trust, providing an outstanding education for local children.

We Believe

• All children have a right to a quality education regardless of background or ability, and have an entitlement to the opportunity of a secure progression route in their learning and development.
• Schools are stronger when they work in collaboration with each other, operate within a ‘family’ and are open to a true sense of partnership.
• We grow the effectiveness and sustainability of our schools by developing the people within them, and that through shared and equitable responsibility for quality and outcomes; we achieve more.
  
  

Applicants would be expected to share the Trust’s high aspirations and expectations for pupils and staff.

If you would like to discuss the role, or have any queries, please contact Jamie Harfield, Head of IT Service Delivery, [e-mail]

How To Apply

Please email your CV and covering letter directly to Jamie Harfield, Head of IT Service Delivery, [e-mail]. Your submission should set out, in brief, the skills and relevant experience you have to meet the demands of the position of Technology Support Manager.

Please also include the names, addresses, phone numbers and email contact details of two professional referees who must be your current and previous employers.

Upon shortlisting for interviews, you will be asked to complete an application form for this position. In line with safer recruitment policies references will be called for prior to interview, unless specifically requested not to at this stage.

Closing date for applications 30th September 2025.

Interviews are likely to take place after the 30th September, and will be confirmed upon shortlisting.

Early application is strongly encouraged as we reserve the right to interview and close the advert ahead of the closing date.

You can also submit an application form by using our Every Candidate Portal. If you are a new user to our portal, you can click on ‘Register’ to complete your candidate profile. If you already have a candidate profile with us, click on ‘Sign In’. Both of these routes allow you to feed your candidate information into any of our vacancies and view the status of your application. If you want to apply directly for this role and not save your data for any future vacancies, you can click on the ‘Apply Now’ button at the bottom of this page.

We have added a video to help guide you through our portal, please visit https://vimeo.com/737845492/c1b8e43656

Spencer Academies Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all our children and young people. Therefore, we expect everyone to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to satisfactory pre- employment checks, including a satisfactory Enhanced criminal records with Barred List Check through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) and the completion of Level 2 Safeguarding training. It is an offence to apply for the role if an applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children (where the role involves this type of regulated activity).

The Trust and its member academies are committed to promoting equality and diversity in both employment and education provision. We aim to ensure that students, parents, governors, employees, contractors, partners, clients and other stakeholders within the Trust community are treated fairly, and with dignity and respect regardless of Protected Characteristics.

Spencer Academies Trust is a Disability Confident Committed Employer

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Benefits

Generous Local Government Pension Scheme, Employee Assist Programme (Health Assured) and BHN Extras (Discount and Salary Sacrifice Schemes). Recognition of local government and academy continuous of service. For full details, click here: https://www.spencertrust.org.uk/employee-benefits

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