Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Lochgilphead, is currently looking to recruit a Systems Administrator for an initial 5 month contract with potential to extend on a rate of c. £200/day Inside IR35. This role will be fully remote.

Responsibilities:

- To support the Development Officer (deputising as required) to develop, test and maintain all HR and OD systems in accordance with requirements, ensuring our systems support the team to deliver an effective, high quality and professional service to the organisation. Assist with the integration of new and existing systems, deliver training to systems' users, and provide management information from system.

- Assist with the systems element of management information reporting, planning and developing appropriately to ensure relevant, accurate high quality information can be generated.

- Assist with planning the implementation of new working practices and systems to ensure appropriate set up of configuration parameters and user access rights, that effective usage procedures are developed, and that training and testing requirements can be met at appropriate stages, while allowing operational requirements to continue to be met as well.

- Assist with planning to ensure the smooth implementation of any changes to the organisation's HR and OD systems

- Configure and maintain usage of relevant modules, setting up and maintaining configuration parameters and user access rights.

- Using systems analysis and programming techniques to support the maintenance and enhancement of HR and OD systems

- Coordinate and Liaise with relevant staff to test new releases of software, and manage availability of the test system to meet requirements for training and testing.

- Assist with set up of integration requirements and testing for integration with HR & OD Systems as required.

- Ensure all interfaces to other systems operate with integrity on a day to day basis, reconciling as required between the systems.

- Resolve faults if possible and refer any that cannot be resolved to the suppliers and/or the organisation's IT Service Desk as appropriate.

- Develop specifications for HR & OD Systems functionality for development by other suppliers as appropriate.

- Participate in meetings with other users of HR & OD Systems.

- Participate in internal and external working groups as appropriate.

- Acting as project assistant for change projects involving HR and OD systems

- Developing and implementing communications plans to support change projects

- Develop and implement testing programmes to support systems development projects

- Delivering and developing training and guidance materials to support change projects in relation to systems development

- Co-ordinate training delivery from consultants and develop skills to subsequently train directly and to train staff to act as trainers on HR & OD Systems, training both in procedures and in system usage.

- Act as a first point of contact for all internal users and develop systems to communicate with users in an effective manner. Assist users with the development of reports.

- Work with the Senior Admin Officer/Admin Officers to develop reporting and regular management information in a user friendly format supporting the development and maintenance of catalogues for reporting

- Assist the Development Officer to manage relevant budgets by ensuring that any expenditure is appropriate, within allocated budget limits at all times and that accurate financial records are maintained.

- Assist with tracking of business process benefits.

- Develop and maintain information on the Corporate Performance Management System (Pyramid).

- Ensure targets are recorded and reported in relation to key performance indicators for internal and external reporting.

Essential skills:

- Experience in a similar role

- ideally experienced with iTrent HR & Payroll software (or similar)

If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.
Posted Date: 24 Apr 2024 Reference: JSV-52955 Employment Business: Venesky-Brown Contact: Doug Louden