Service Desk Team Leader

Age UK's Digital & Technology division is recruiting for a Service Desk Team Leader to join our customer-centric team.

This is an exciting time for the Service Desk as it is working to deliver a service improvement roadmap aligned to the Service Desk Institute's global best practice standards.

You will lead a team of Service Desk Analysts, with responsibility for tasks related to operational performance and people management. You'll work with the Senior Service Desk Analyst to develop and grow the team's technical skills.

The team will provide first touch support for all of Age UK's technical Infrastructure - including desktop, software and mobile device management and Telephony (includes Incidents, Requests and Changes). You'll work on operational and administrative activities associated with the Service Desk - including reports, account management, moves, adds, deletes and changes.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Service Desk Team Leader to use your innovation to add to a Knowledgebase to help ensure team resiliency wherever possible.

This fulfilling role is offered on a hybrid contract with circa 4 days a week being worked on site at our London office. There will be a requirement to cover the Service Desk between the opening hours of 8am-7pm as agreed on a rota-basis.

Must haves:

The below competencies will be assessed at the indicated stage of the recruitment process:
Application = A, Interview = I, Test = T, Presentation = P

Experience
Significant experience of operational management of a medium sized remote team on a busy Service Desk. (A, I)
Significant people management experience (A, I)
Significant experience of working with and managing Incident Management and Request Fulfilment processes (I, P)
Significant experience of working with an ITSM platform (A, I)
Significant experience of working with a Telephony platform (A, I)
Experience of working in an ITIL environment with a demonstrable knowledge of how ITSM processes are utilised to deliver an outstanding service (A, I)

Skills and Knowledge
Good understanding of effective Office 365 administration support (A, I)
Good understanding of effective Windows 10 troubleshooting support (A, I)
Good understanding of effective Active Directory/Azure Active Directory support (A, I)
Good understanding of Intune support (A, I)
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal (A, I, P)

Personal attributes
Passionate about providing a brilliant User Experience (I, P)

What we offer in return

• Competitive salary, 26 days annual leave + bank holidays + annual leave purchase scheme
• Excellent pension scheme, life assurance, health cashback plan and EAP
• Car Benefit Scheme, Cycle to Work Scheme and Season Ticket Loan
• Techscheme - buy any tech from Apple or Currys, up to £1000, and spread the cost over 12 months, interest free
• Blue Light Card Scheme
• You Did It Awards - recognition awards from £100-250.

Additional Information
This role is hybrid between home-based and your designated office(s) with 4 days a week on-site plus ad-hoc as requested by the IT Service Delivery Management team. You'll be expected to share management cover of the Service Desk 8-7 core hours rota with the Service Desk leadership team.

Supporting statements and anonymisation
Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an 'A' in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected. CVs will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview.

Equal opportunities & Disability Confident Scheme
Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Reasonable adjustments
Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions.

Age UK is able to provide Skilled Worker sponsorship for eligible roles only. If this applies to you, please contact the recruitment team to discuss. If the role is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship you will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK. Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment. Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.