Computing Officer - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Grade UE06:
£30,619 - £35,308 per annum

College of Science and Engineering / School of Geosciences

Full-time; 35 hours per week

Open-ended

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to use your technical skills to make a real impact? We are looking for a Computing Officer to support research and teaching in the School of GeoSciences - a grouping of geographers, Earth and environmental scientists tackling the most important environmental and social challenges of our times.

Running the Helpdesk in our central Edinburgh buildings, you will play a critical role in providing high quality support and assistance to our staff and students, helping to ensure they can make the most of our cutting edge technology.

In this role, you will be responsible for providing expert technical assistance, troubleshooting issues, and resolving problems in a timely and efficient manner.

You will work closely with a team of dedicated professional to ensure that our technology infrastructure is running smoothly and that our users have the support they need.

The Opportunity:

We require an enthusiastic Computing Officer to join our IT Department. This is an excellent opportunity to develop a career in IT support, joining a team of IT professionals.

Your skills and attributes for success:

A degree or equivalent qualification/experience.
Excellent written and spoken communication skills are required; you will be able to communicate with people of all ages, backgrounds and experience.
Experience of working in a computing support role.
Experience of administering some of the operating systems in use (Windows 10, Linux and Mac OS).
Knowledge and experience of PC hardware configuration, troubleshooting and replacement.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success.

You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits
pension scheme ,
staff discounts, family friendly initiatives
, flexible working and much more.

Access our staff benefits page
for further information and use our reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education.

We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our
right to work webpages.

On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role.

International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.