Introduction

The University of Sussex is a leading academic institution nestled in the beautiful South Downs, on the outskirts of Brighton. With staff and students from over 100 countries, we are a diverse and innovative environment, and one of the highest performing universities in the world. We are also a major local employer, with a revenue of over £320m per year and over 3,000 employees.

Led by an award-winning Chief Digital Transformation Officer and inspirational leadership team, we are now embarking on an ambitious programme of transformational change. Over the coming years, this digital transition will be an ever-developing programme supported by senior stakeholders both financially and strategically. Put simply, whilst we are already a highly successful organisation and business, the University will be a very different world in years to come and achieve levels of performance and digital delivery as yet unseen in the sector. All of this is underpinned by major construction and estate renewal, an exciting programme of work to add thousands of accommodation spaces, and a network replacement project to install the latest digital infrastructure as part of the journey towards a fully data-enabled organisation.

As this programme gains momentum, we need more people to join us as we unpick our challenges and legacy systems. We are moving to an agile world and need to take the organisation on the same journey to be sector leading and to deliver a model of digital delivery fit for the coming years.

The new team members will play a critical role in transitioning to a world class cloud infrastructure, and the Productivity and Collaboration Platform will be an integral part of this change. Reporting to the Assistant Director, IT Operations, the Microsoft 365 - Platform Owner (Productivity and Collaboration) will be able to:

• Demonstrate technical competence and thought leadership in Microsoft 365 and be recognised as the subject matter expert for the productivity and collaboration platform.
• Support a wider range of products and services as part of our Productivity and Collaboration platform, for example Google, Box, others.
• Show empathy with colleagues across the organisation and the ability to inform, influence and take stakeholders on a journey to overcome business challenges and embrace new ways of working and collaborating.
• Build and lead the team to look at requirements and embedded behaviours to assess how processes can be unpicked from existing systems.
• Play an active role in backlog management, sprint planning, participation and reviews
• Anticipate future business needs via clear communication lines across the business at multiple levels.
• Work across multiple projects concurrently and manage conflicting priorities with clarity and conviction.

Not only do we offer flexible and remote working, a vibrant atmosphere, use of our incredible facilities, benefits and an amazing pension; but we are offering the opportunity to be part of a transformation that will see us set the benchmark for a model of digital delivery in the HE sector.

For further information or to apply contact Tom King/Lawrence Harris at Global Resourcing: US@global-resourcing.com / 020 8253 1806.

Timetable

ITS & Sussex Projects Organisation Chart