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Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Employer
Berwick Partners
Location
South Kensington, London
Salary
Competitive salary plus USS Pension
Closing date
29 Sep 2019

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Sector
Education
Responsibilities
Information Management, Information Technology, Strategy
Position/Level
CIO
Contract Type
Permanent
Language
English

Job Details

Imperial College London 

Chief Information Officer (CIO)

Competitive salary plus USS Pension                                       

South Kensington, London, South East England

This is an exciting opportunity for a collaborative IT leader who is focused on delivering results and outstanding customer service. Your role is to lead the team that will develop and deliver the ambitious IT and data strategy, architecture and infrastructure that Imperial needs to underpin its world leading research and teaching. Reporting to the Chief Finance and Operations officer, the CIO will have the full mandate and budget to deliver a robust IT architectural roadmap and clear technology strategy. 

Imperial is a global top ten university with a world-class reputation in science, engineering, business and medicine (ranked #9 in the QS World University Rankings 2019). Imperial is home to approximately 8,000 staff, over 17,000 students and every year we award over 6,700 degrees. With its main base in South Kensington, further campuses across London including a major new development in White City and staff based in major London Hospitals, the College has a profound impact on the world.

The Role:

  • Operate as the strategic leader for all aspects of information technology ‘run’ and change’, providing strong functional leadership and harmonising the teams whilst driving clarity of responsibility and process
  • Create an aligned IT strategy and architectural roadmap to deliver a rapid enhancement in IT systems performance and the quality of the IT ‘customer-experience’
  • Inspire a user-centric culture, creating an IT team that is both easy to engage with and that has a reputation for consistent, reliable and outstanding delivery     

The Candidate:

  • A solution-focused leader with a demonstrable depth of high-level IT architecture knowledge, able to understand the needs of a diverse organisation and to create an exemplary IT service.
  • An impactful leader; politically attuned with the both the gravitas and attitude to proactively build relationships with a wide-range of challenging senior stakeholders. 
  • An outstanding and enthusing communicator with proven ability to inspire large-scale IT teams.  You will have a demonstrable track record of building high-performing teams, driving clarity of role and responsibilities and of adopting contemporary IT disciplines.

For further information and details on how to apply for this outstanding role, please visit www.odgers.com/73316

For an informal and confidential discussion, please speak with our advisors at Odgers Berndtson.

Alex Richardson
Principal Consultant – IT Leadership Practice

Alex.Richardson@odgers.com

0161 498 3409

Closing date for applications: 29th September 2019

Company

We’re passionate about finding senior talent that transforms organisations.

Berwick Partners is the division of Odgers Berndtson which focuses on finding senior talent that transforms organisations.

We are proactive and agile, meeting the evolving senior recruitment needs of the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. Fully data-driven, with deep industry knowledge across multiple sectors we can access to deep talent networks and use the very best candidate assessment tools available.

We remain totally focused on your candidate brief by immersing ourselves in your organisation's strategy and culture and embrace your vision so we can find you exceptional talent.

As a fully inclusive recruiter, we have an ongoing commitment to identifying the very best emerging and diverse talent from the UK and overseas, with inclusion and diversity positioned at the heart of our whole search process.

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