IT Systems Administrator - Person Specification

Job title:                              IT Systems Administrator

Post reference:                 1302CORA

Grade:                                  4

Key requirements:

Priority 1 – Could not do the job without this

Priority 2 – Could not do the job without this, but provided have Priority 1 criteria, this could be developed in the job over an acceptable period

Priority 3 – Would enhance performance in the job, but is not essential

 

Qualifications  

1. Recognised professional / industry or vocational qualification in ICT (Priority 1)

                e.g Level 2 Certificate for IT systems Administrators or City and guilds Level 2 or 3 diploma              in ICT Systems Support.

Knowledge

1. Conversant with legislation relevant to the profession, e.g. Data Protection, IT Security. (Priority 1)
2. Knowledge of Business Intelligence report writing and/or extracting data from various applications. E.g. Power BI, SQL (Priority 2)
3. Must have basic working knowledge of Microsoft365 Products (Priority 1)

Experience

1. Good experience of an ICT environment, application support, development and administration of software applications. (Priority 1)
2. Experience of operating Microsoft systems. Power BI, Word, Excel, databases, Teams, SharePoint (Priority 1)
3. Experience working with a range of business, utility and web applications. (Priority 2)

Skills

1. Excellent level of communication skills (Priority 1)
2. Ability to input, extract and interpret information from IT systems (Priority 2)
3. Be able to prioritise workloads and meet competing demands (Priority 2)
4. Problem solving and negotiating skills (Priority 1)
5. Ability to work both as part of a team and on own initiative (Priority 1)
6. Ability to engage with external and internal suppliers and customers (Priority 2)

 

 

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Last Updated on Monday, June 16, 2025