Service Desk Technician (G4)

The Role and the Department

The Computing and Information Services (CIS) has an annual operational budget in the order of £10m, multi-million pound programmes of change within year, and approximately 140 staff who are predominately based at the Durham University campus. The Senior Leadership Team report directly to the Chief Information Officer with the following portfolios: Strategy and Change; Operations; and Information Systems. CIS provide academic, teaching and administrative services across the organisation that underpin the day-to-day activities of the whole organisation.

Recent infrastructure improvements include investment in a new network backbone, including new cable runs throughout the city to all of the Universities core buildings, new scalable user facing storage, and a new hosting environment. Corresponding business led investment also continues to be made with a new Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning suite, investment in research administration, and maximising the breadth of opportunities available to the University through Office365, alongside numerous other important initiatives.

CIS is a friendly, but demanding department, where much is expected and can be achieved by competent, self-motivated individuals who are demonstrable in their team work ability.

The Role

As a Service Desk Technician you will act as first line support for University Staff, Student, and Visitor IT users, through all appropriate contact channels (Self Service, Telephone, Email, In person) to fulfill requests, provide support and resolve incident and problems.

The Service Desk Technician will be expected to provide effective, high quality, responsive, customer focused support to all users of University IT in a timely and professional manner. The post holder will have a willingness to develop new technical competencies and an ability to be flexible and work extended hours if required.