IT Asset & Licence Officer - (Fixed Term)Reference: NOV20248148 Expiry date: 23:59, Fri, 7th Feb 2025
Location: RSPB UKHQ - The Lodge
Benefits: Pension, Life Assurance and Annual Leave
Duration: 12 months (Ideally starting 17th March 2025)
This role is responsible for licence and asset management across the organisation and will report into the Service Desk Manager.
With 2,500 staff and over 12,000 volunteers, there is a need to keep a tight management of our asset base, especially for high-value IT items, and to ensure that license spend is controlled.
What's the role about? As well as managing the location of our hardware assets and documenting this, the role will be responsible for ensuring that we do the same with our software.
This includes ensuring that licences are only in place for those who really need access and that this is managed through the starters and leavers process.
This role could be managed hybrid but will require occasional travel to the RSPB HQ in Sandy and to RSPB St Martins in Bedford where the physical assets are managed from.
Essential skills, knowledge and experience: At least 5 GCSE's, including Maths and English.Extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (especially Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint).Knowledge of document management and team collaboration tools.Experience of managing IT assets and knowledge of asset and license management terminology and processes.Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences whether by phone, email or in person.Able to negotiate and influence effectively.Able to identify and act on opportunities for continually improving ways of working.Able to proactively identify and solve problems.Able to deal with confidential and sensitive information appropriately. Desirable skills, knowledge and experience: Knowledge of budget management terminology and processes. This is a Fixed-Term 12-month contract for 37.5 hours per week, ideally starting 17th March 2025.
The role would be hybrid, needing to be at the Lodge (Sandy) / St Martins (Bedford) probably 1-2 days a week.
The RSPB reserves the right to extend or make this role permanent without further advertising dependent on business needs at the end of the contract term.
We are looking to conduct interviews for this position as soon as practicable.
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As part of this application process, you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete an application form.
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