Service Analyst (2nd Line) (CH11629)

Job title Service Analyst (2nd Line)

Department Digital, Data & Technology Group

Salary Starting from £25,138, rising to £28,759

Grade Grade 5

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Wednesday 24 April 2024

Closing date Sunday 12 May 2024

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference CH11629

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This is a great opportunity for you to develop your IT and Audio Visual(AV) career, if you have a background in or a passion for technology, we'd love to hear from you. You'd be joining our small, experienced standard support team in a 2nd line support role working in a fast-paced environment where you will gain experience and exposure to a variety of challenges and problems that will build your expertise.

About the role

You will work with the team to provide an outstanding IT service to both our students and staff. No two days will be the same, providing help and advice in person, via telephone and remote support as well as through our ticket management system (TOPdesk). You will play a key part in creating an exceptional IT infrastructure in our world-leading research and teaching focussed university.

As part of our supportive team of 11 second line analysts, you will be supporting administrative, teaching, and learning activities across the university. Your key activities will include:

Rectifying faults and providing advice on a wide range of hardware including audio visual equipment, operating systems, and software.

Investigating and providing basic hardware and audio visual repairs

Assisting with the build and deployment of DDaT supported equipment to teaching/learning spaces, meeting rooms and offices as needed

Helping to develop our knowledge base and self-help guides

Work on projects/small works as required and as staff resource allows.

This role is offered on a full time (36.5 hours per week) permanent basis.

About you

You will be interested in developing your career within IT and AV and enjoy problem-solving software and hardware issues as well as getting hands-on in delivering great support. You will also have:

Great customer service skills with the ability to communicate with a wide range of people.

Either through study, personal interest or work you will understand one or multiple operating systems e.g., Windows, MacOS, Linux, mobile platforms and / or Audio Visual equipment.

Experience using a variety of common Office software.

Ideally have some experience of basic hardware repairs.

Be self-motivated.

Be able to work alone, in a team or with your peers.

Have excellent interpersonal skills.

Enjoy working in a customer facing fast paced environment and be able to multitask and prioritise effectively.

For informal discussions about the role please contact Sherilyn Elmes on [email protected] or Adrian Hooper [email protected]

What we can offer you:

a very generous employer contributory pension scheme

generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance

we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements

an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce

a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities

a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.