Position Details
CSOT
Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
Full time starting salary is normally in the range £25,506 to £27,399, with potential progression once in post to £31,718
Band: 500
Full Time, Permanent
Closing date: 24th May 2023
Our offer to you
People are at the heart of what we are and do.
The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university. We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.
We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential. With almost 5,000 professional services jobs in a wide-range of functions in Edgbaston and in our campus in Dubai, there are plenty of opportunities for you to be able to develop your career at the University.
We believe there is no such thing as a typical member of staff and that diversity is a source of strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation, and debate. We warmly welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diversity is at the heart of who and what we are, and how we work.
Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University and, depending on the role, we offer a variety of flexible working arrangements. We therefore welcome discussions on all forms of flexible working. In addition, you will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme. We also have three high quality subsidised day nurseries.
The University is situated in leafy Edgbaston and there are excellent transport links to our beautiful campus, including main bus routes and a train station on site. On campus we have a state-of-the-art sports centre with pool, shops, places to eat and drink, our own art gallery, museum and botanical gardens.
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Background
The University of Birmingham has ambitious plans to be a leading global university. In order to achieve this it needs to have modern, flexible systems that support efficient processes, effective decision making and provide meaningful management information.
In the light of the above, the University’s legacy finance, HR and payroll systems were replaced with integrated cloud based systems in June 2019, named “Core Systems”. A dedicated functional and technical team, the Core Systems Optimisation Team (CSOT), has been established to manage the new system. The role of CSOT includes helping to stabilise and optimise the build and functionality of the new system, incident management, quarterly release management and co-ordinating and delivering end-user support and training.
Summary of Role
The System Administrator will have a range of duties supporting CSOT’s core work.
The role forms part of a team providing 2nd line Core Systems support to end users (e.g. academic, administrative, support and casual workers) as well as functional business users (e.g. Finance, HR and Worklink teams).
The role-holder will be the primary point of contact for all users with any issues relating to Core Systems receiving and managing enquiries using the University’s incident management software (ServiceNow). The post holder will be expected to resolve the majority of queries without referral however escalation to other members of CSOT may, on occasion, be required.
The CSOT team is responsible for managing the test cycles for the Core System. This role will play a key role in preparing data for testing, amending tests scripts as required, running tests and providing relevant test evidence and other test relates duties, as required.
The role will be responsible for managing requests for new positions and work schedules in Core Systems in a timely manner. Positions and Work Schedules are key HR building blocks within the system that are essential to ensuring HR processes, reporting and eligibility run accurately.
Main Duties
Person Specification
Informal enquires to Stella Poole, email: o.s.poole@bham.ac.uk
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Open House Event:
We will be holding an ‘open house’ event at the University’s Exchange building, in Centenary Square, Birmingham, between 10am and 5pm on Thursday 18 May 2023. If you’re interested in working at the University of Birmingham and perhaps have a few questions, this is an opportunity to meet colleagues in the Recruitment team. It will be a relaxed and informal event – you can drop in at any time. If you are interested in coming along but cannot make it until after 5 please can you let us know by dropping an email to s.shaw.1@bham.ac.uk and we will see if we can arrange a time between 5 - 6 on this day.
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