Department for Education
2nd Line IT Support Technician
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Nottingham, East Midlands (England), NG2 1AW
Job Summary
In this role, you will be providing 2nd Line IT Support for the Nottingham Office. Working to the Onsite Service Manager, you will take operational responsibility for managing your own queue, which will consist of incidents and requests and form part of our onsite support service.
The role of the Onsite Support Engineer is to ensure that our DfE colleagues are up and running as soon as possible, supporting internal users and multiple external user groups that interact with DfE’s externally facing IT Services.
Work will be allocated by onsite leads, flexibility is key. You will also need strong stakeholder management and communications skills as you will liaise with VIPs and will be carrying out onsite clinics.
You will work collaboratively with the other teams, specifically including Service Desk, End User Computing, Networks and Security to ensure that our users’ requirements are met.
This role is office based and the successful post holder would be required to be in the office a minimum of 80% of the working week.
Job Description
Staff in this role will be required to demonstrate strong customer focus, professionalism, flexibility and commitment to delivery of outcomes.
Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:
- Deliver high quality support services for a range of IT systems and services, many of which are business critical.
- Handle incidents and requests from a diverse user base of key internal and external stakeholders across the DfE estate, liaising with other government departments as required.
- Centrally manage and administer accounts that are used by both internal and external stakeholders.
- Make extensive use of the organisation’s IT Toolset for Incident and Problem Management, request fulfilment, reporting and tracking of Service Levels.
- Diagnose and triage customer incidents/requests using a variety of applications and processes.
- Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with key stakeholders and users to help understand their business requirements and priorities.
- Transforming DfE’s Support Services, driving continuous improvement, automation and self-service.
- Maintain and update Onsite Teams’ operational documentation, including knowledge bases and user guides.
- Ensure all queries are resolved within agreed timescales to meet SLAs.
- Carry out regular reviews of existing processes and procedures and suggest areas for improvement.
- Carry out testing of new system functionality where appropriate.
- Ensure security of end user products is not compromised and follow appropriate security procedures.
- Provide guidance to projects during planning and rollout as and when required.
- Providing onsite support clinics to remote sites (travel may be required) as per agreed schedule or as and when required.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria:
- We are looking for someone with a flexible approach to working patterns as we operate on a shift rota basis.
- Customer Service Management: Resolves user requests in line with the agreed service level agreement. Able to empathise with the end user. Uses customer-focused metrics to achieve a satisfying outcome.
- Information Technology: Training will be provided but an interest in pursuing a career within IT services is essential.
- Ownership And Initiative: Takes ownership of problems and proactively resolves technical problems, ensuring that technical solutions continue to meet business requirements. Takes full accountability for actions taken and decisions made.
- Service Focus: Aware of different products and services and how they are used together to deliver business requirements.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Products. E.G. Outlook, Skype, Teams, Word & Excel.
- Basic understanding of networking & telephony.
- The ability to use your own initiative to aid in diagnostics.
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Desirable Criteria:
- ITIL v3 OR v4 foundation.
- Working knowledge of ServiceNow.
- Windows 10 troubleshooting experience.
- An understanding of ITIL methodology.
- Microsoft O365 skills.
- Microsoft Certified Professional.
Desirable criteria will only be assessed in the event of a tie break situation at interview to make an informed decision.
Salary and Benefits
Alongside your salary of £31,479, Department for Education contributes £9,119 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).
Applicants currently holding a permanent post in the Civil Service should note that, if successful, their salary on appointment would be determined by the Department’s transfer / promotion policies.
As a member of the DfE, you will be entitled to join the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme, which many experts agree is one of the most generous in the UK.
You will have 25 days leave, increasing by 1 day every year to a maximum of 30 days after five years’ service. In addition, all staff receive the King’s Birthday privilege holiday and 8 days’ bank and public holidays.
We offer flexible working arrangements, such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
Most DfE employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending at least 60% of their time in an office or work setting. Changes to these working arrangements are available in exceptional circumstances but must be agreed with the line manager and in line with the requirements of the role.
Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DfE, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.
As an organisation, which exists to support education and lifelong learning, we offer our staff excellent professional development opportunities.
Application Process
Application
To apply for this role, you will be required to provide your CV and a personal statement, through which we will assess your experience.
Your CV should show details of your employment history, including roles held, any related qualifications and the previous skills and experience gained from those roles, in alignment with the essential criteria.
Your statement (max 1000 words) should show how your experience demonstrates the listed essential criteria.
We will sift your CV and statement together, with those passing the sift being invited to attend an interview.
In the event of a high volume of applicants, we will sift using the experience demonstrated in your CV only.
Interview
At interview, we will ask questions to further assess your experience in accordance with the listed essential criteria.
Interviews may be via Microsoft teams or face to face; the vacancy manager will confirm prior to the Interview.
Other Information
In your application, please don’t include personal information that identifies you.
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Please ensure that you remove from your application, all references to your:
- name/title
- educational institutions
- age
- gender
- email address
- postal address
- phone number
- nationality/immigration status
We reserve the right to raise the minimum pass mark in the event of a high volume or strong field of candidates.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK from the location options provided and not from overseas.
The government is committed to supporting apprenticeships, enabling people to learn and progress in a role whilst earning. We want to monitor the number of people who have completed apprenticeships who are now applying to progress further in their career and are asking this question to all candidates, on all vacancies. You will be asked a question as part of the application process about any previous apprenticeships you have completed. Your response to this question will not affect your application and it is not a requirement of the role to have completed a previous apprenticeship.
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check maybe carried out.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstance some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Department of Education of your intention by emailing Pre-Employment.Checks.DFE@education.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
Department for Education do not cover the cost of travel to your interview/assessment unless otherwise stated.
A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.
Candidates will be posted in merit order based upon location preference. Where more than one location is advertised you will be asked to state your preferred location.
New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
Terms and conditions of candidates transferring from ALBs and NDPBs
Bodies that are not accredited by the Civil Service Commission and are not able to advertise at Across Government on Civil Service jobs will be treated as external new starters and come into DfE on modernised terms and conditions with a salary at the band minimum.
Bodies that are accredited by the Civil Service Commission but do not have civil service status will be offered modernised terms and will not have continuous service recognised for leave or sickness benefits. Salaries should be offered at band minimum, but there is some flexibility where this would cause a detriment to the individual.
Bodies that are accredited by the Civil Service Commission and do have Civil Service status will be treated as OGD transfers. Staff appointed on lateral transfer will move on to pre-modernised DfE terms (unless they were on modern
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