Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, Project, System
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Villingen-Schwenningen
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you lead a 10-member team, ensure IT operations at 25 schools, develop IT standards, create concepts, drive interdisciplinary projects, and manage the budget for resources and funding.
Your role in the team
- Leadership and Development of the Educational IT Department: You will be responsible for the 10-member team, shaping work processes and promoting a constructive, performance-oriented culture.
- Ensuring IT operations at 25 municipal schools: Together with your team, you ensure that teachers, students, and administration can reliably access IT resources at all times.
- Strategic Development of School Infrastructure: You define future-proof IT standards, drive innovations, and implement technological modernizations across school locations.
- Development of concepts and decision-making bases: You develop technical concepts, prepare council proposals and reports, and provide well-founded statements for political and administrative decisions.
- Ensuring quality and efficiency: You establish continuous evaluation and quality measures, optimize processes, and ensure smooth operations.
- Project Management and Collaboration: You lead interdisciplinary IT projects, coordinate across departments, and work closely with school administrations as well as external partners.
- Budget and Resource Management: You plan budget approaches, manage resources, utilize funding programs, and monitor the use of funds effectively.
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Our expectations of you
Education
- Completed university degree in (business) informatics or a comparable field of study.
Qualifications
- In-depth knowledge of school law, educational curricula, and relevant legal frameworks (e.g., School Act BW, Public Procurement Law).
- Ability for strategic and conceptual thinking, high result orientation, and enthusiasm for innovation.
- Vaccination protection or immunity against measles.
Experience
- Good knowledge of data protection and IT security requirements; experience with security and emergency strategies.
- Experience with IT operational processes and service management.
- Leadership experience with proven personnel responsibility, team management, and team development.
- Experience in budget planning, financial management, grant management, as well as procurement and contract management.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills as well as excellent oral and written expression; experience in public relations is desirable.
- Understanding of political processes and experience in collaborating with schools, authorities, committees, and external partners.
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What we offer
- A responsible leadership role with visible impact: You will shape the digital future of 25 municipal schools and thereby make an immediately meaningful contribution to education in our city.
- Modern working environment: From 2027, the department will be located at the newly renovated administrative site at Oberer Brühl - modern spaces, contemporary infrastructure, and attractive working conditions.
- A dedicated, collegial team: You will take over a specialist department with experienced subject matter experts.
- Diverse development opportunities: Further training and education as well as the possibility to introduce innovative technologies and concepts.
- Sustainable Perspective: The position is designed for the long term and offers the opportunity to shape processes and standards permanently.
- Future-proof employment.
- Standard benefits in the public sector, such as supplementary pension schemes and performance-based pay.
- Rad leasing within the framework of salary conversion.
- Occupational health management and corporate fitness in cooperation with Hansefit.
- Attractive workplace and excellent framework conditions to better reconcile work and family life as well as for a balanced 'Work-Life-Balance' (including home office within the scope of a service agreement).
- Support with childcare in daycare centers.
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Stadt Villingen-Schwenningen
Villingen-Schwenningen liegt im Südwesten Baden-Württembergs. Mit 85.000 Einwohnern ist die aus der Gemeindereform 1972 hervorgegangene badisch-württembergische Doppelstadt ein Oberzentrum und Hochschulstandort sowie die Kreisstadt und größte Stadt des Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreises.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Industry
- Public Service, Unions
Head of the Education IT Department
- Location
- Villingen-Schwenningen
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
