Associate IT Consultant - West Sussex County Council : Job Details

The Opportunity

Salary: £46,731 to £49,764 per annum

Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Based - County Hall, Chichester and working from home

Interview date: w/c 09 December 2024

As our Associate IT Consultant, you will provide business relationship management, advice and guidance on all aspects of IT and Information Management required to support County Council services.

As part of the wider Consultancy function, you will provide expertise and advice across various service areas, comprising a substantial county wide support / business partner advisory service.

You will support IT Consultants influencing the strategic direction for all services and IT, through collaboration with a wide range of services and IT professionals, including Heads of Service, Service Senior Management Teams and working with domain expert service professionals.

You will work within a small customer focused team, responsible for and acting as the principal day to day contact point for engagement with IT Services.

As our Associate IT Consultant, you will inform IT strategic direction by providing a business-based perspective on IT decisions.

What are we looking for?

• You will have the vision to develop, lead and successfully implement new / transformed policies, processes & guidance, including interpreting procedures and practices to satisfy short- and medium-term operational requirements.
• You will have experience of analysing and evaluating complex information, perhaps as an IT business analyst or project manager, and the identification of innovative solutions through the detailed grasp of involved procedures and practices.
• You will be able to provide expert advice on complex issues verbally and/or through written reports, tackling difficult problems of a technical, professional, resource or people related nature.
• You will need to have experience of delivering to a challenging set of customer focused service objectives.
• The ability to roadmap change and underpinning technology, achieved through developing the shape of future service provision and budgets, typically planning on a time horizon of around a year.
• You will be an efficient and effective communicator, nurturing relationships with managers and partners across the wider directorate, other parts of the organisation and external organisations.
• You will be skilled in business relationship management and the business partner disciplines of the IT profession in a large corporate environment.

For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.

Working for us

As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:

• an excellent local government pension scheme
• generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
• a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
• maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
• volunteering opportunities
• training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
• a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
• health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans

For a full list this can be found at our Rewards and Benefits page.

Further information

The reference number for this role is CRS00822.

For an informal conversation or for further information regarding the role, please contact Sarah Worsley (IT Consultant) at . For issues or queries regarding your application please contact .

To apply, please follow the links below to upload your CV and Cover Letter. In your cover letter please outline your motivations for applying and explaining the skills and experience you can bring to the role (please refer to the key skills) ensuring that any gaps in employment are covered in your CV. Please ensure you have saved the job description attached to the main advert on our website as, once the job has closed, you may not have the opportunity to download again.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to 3 years referencing and a health check.