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Celebrating its 175^th anniversary next year, St Andrew’s School is one of Australia’s leading Anglican, co-educational, independent schools delivering excellence in educational experiences for over 500 students from ELC to Year 6.  A prominent International Baccalaureate (IB) World School, St Andrew’s is recognised as educating South Australia’s brightest and bravest minds, forging generations of leaders through its uncompromising pursuit of excellence in teaching and learning.

Reporting to the Business Director, the Head of ICT and Digital Technologies is a member of the Leadership Group and responsible for the management and leadership of ICT and Digital Technologies across the School.  This is a key Internal advisory position providing vision and leadership in the development and implementation of the ICT Strategy and ensuring a secure, reliable and innovative infrastructure to support the needs of staff, students and the parent community.  Key areas of responsibility include:

• leading, developing and executing a high order, comprehensive ICT strategy that aligns with the School’s Strategic Intent enabling seamless integration of technologies into the business and educational frameworks;
• advising the ELT and the Board in the areas of strategy and risk, both present and emerging;
• leading and directing through robust policies and protocols cyber security, data protection and records management;
• management of infrastructure, software application and technical frameworks such that business-critical ICT services are in place;
• planning and directing expansions, upgrades and maintenance and managing external contractors and vendors;
• widespread stakeholder engagement both internally across the school community and externally with relevant regulatory and professional bodies.

Applications are encouraged from appropriately qualified ICT professionals with demonstrated experience leading the strategic direction and operations of the ICT function ideally for a comparably customer and human focussed entity.  Understanding of Digital Literacy and Digital Technologies with the ability to build capability in a range of forums, together with knowledge of business procedures including project management, reporting, budgeting, quality assurance and leading through change will be key to success in this position.

Make an enquiry to explore this genuine opportunity to drive the ICT strategy and operations for an established, respected, connected and flourishing learning community.