Senior Information Systems Officer

Continually striving for excellence and a strong Grade 2 College, Wigan & Leigh College is well underway on its journey to become Outstanding. With over 6,500 students and a turnover of £26m, the College is in a strong position to continue to move forward and grow.   

The College has distinct ambitions to expand its choice of programmes and services to meet the needs of the local community and support the economic transformation of Wigan and surrounding areas.   

The College has created a community that encourages all students to enhance their learning through wider opportunities and support services; to maximise their achievements and secure progression onto further study and employment. 

A fantastic opportunity has arisen working as a Senior Information Services Officer to join our expanding team on our road to become an Outstanding college.

We are looking for a talented and proactive individual great technical ability, a desire to learn and who enjoys a challenge. This is a senior post with an exciting and varied role, being involved in a wide range of MIS related duties and projects involving the development, maintenance and support of MIS processes, systems, reports and applications.

You will be responsible for the development, maintenance and support of a large suite of reports and the college dashboard as well as creating and maintaining data marts, views, functions and our data warehouse. You will be working with Report Builder, SSRS and SSIS, writing reports using SQL and T-SQL against a SQL Server database as well as our Dynistics based dashboard. You will also be involved in the development, maintenance and support of a variety of both in house and off the shelf applications and systems utilising a variety of web based and client based technologies.

You must have excellent communication skills with a friendly and approachable nature, as this role will involve communication with various departments, to gather requirements and manage expectations and manage a project from start to finish. You will work on projects throughout the whole lifecycle, developing using .NET and various web technologies.

The College reserves the right to interview for this post should we receive suitable candidates prior to the closing date.  

The successful candidate will be required to apply for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check.

To apply, please complete the attached application form and return via the Apply link.