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Manchester City


City Football Group (CFG) is the holding company established to oversee the creation and administration of a network of linked clubs and other footballing operations under the aegis of Manchester City.

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Job Posted
5 Feb 2025
Status
Full Time
Location
England
Closing date
18 Feb 2025

The purpose of this role is for supporting and maintaining Technology systems and providing efficient desktop support to all business users. To aid the development of an IT Strategy for CITC and roadmap its core applications, integrate centralised City Football Group services and act as a focal point for managing IT Risk.

Accountabilities

  • Manage the CITC IT landscape, infrastructure and applications that suit the needs of CITC and ensure fully integration of services that are centrally delivered through the Club and design and deliver any IT capabilities required that are not centrally delivered.
  • Responsible for the general IT support to all CITC employees regarding the hardware/software and ensure continuous service delivery to CITC staff.
  • Review and continuously improve IT general controls and ensure compliance to legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to IT.
  • Act as a key advisor and focal point for managing IT Risks for CITC drawing on the wider CFG team if required.
  • Oversee relevant parts of the IT budget and ensure that budgetary targets are met and advise on hardware and software based on requirements with a view to running robust procurement processes.
  • Maintain fixed asset register, administer devices lease contracts, and manage, monitor and report on mobile data usage.
  • Administration of the CITC intranet (SharePoint) including any major changes / updates / permissions / etc. Administer the system workflows for all Business Forms using Power Automate.
  • Ensuring that CITC’s Safeguarding policy and procedures are embedded to the highest standard across the team. Work to ensure that safeguarding practices and principles are adhered to, ensuring our legal and moral obligations towards the framework.
  • Ensuring that all relevant CITC and CFG policies and procedures are adhered to across the team, escalating any breaches as appropriate.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential

  • A solid grounding in ITIL principles – in particular, Incident and Problem Management.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage workload effectively, managing several open Incidents/Problems and projects simultaneously.
  • Previous experience operating within a Service Desk environment, supporting users remotely and managing tickets through an Incident Management tool.
  • Demonstrate security conscious practices.
  • Experience of Active Directory, Exchange, O365 and Microsoft Intune for troubleshooting, configuration and administration activities.
  • A track record of delivering a service to IT users particularly around hardware and core applications.
  • Experience of reviewing and negotiating IT contracts for software, hardware and services.
  • Strong background in supporting full Microsoft Office suite on Windows and Mac platforms, with recent support in Office 2016/365.
  • Excellent support experience with mobile devices e.g. tablets and smartphones.
  • Excellent level of customer service and demonstratable experience of dealing with senior members of staff.

Desirable

  • Knowledge of Power Automate.
  • Knowledge of SharePoint Administration.
  • Experience of identifying IT risks
  • Experience in working in the Charity sector
  • ITIL qualification

How to Apply

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Additional Info

Status
Full Time
Job Type
Media & Digital
Sports Technology
Sport
Football
Pay Information
Competitive

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