BRITISH SCHOOL AT ATHENS: IT OFFICER; JOB DESCRIPTION
Title of Job: IT Officer at the British School at Athens
Nature of Job: Administrative, technical and academic
Section: Director
Accountability: To the Director
Terms of Service: permanent appointment dependent upon satisfactory completion of
a 12 month probationary period.
Full time/part time: Full time.
Where based for salary purposes: The IT Officer is required to be resident in
Athens: salary currently UK-based.
Responsibilities:
The IT Officer’s duties include:
• Control of the IT budget
• The ongoing development of long-term IT strategies for the School
• The formulation of specific IT projects, and fundraising for those beyond the
scope of the IT budget
• Technical and operational advice to other members of staff developing IT-
dependent projects and systems
• Identification and prioritisation of IT needs in each financial year
• Specification, ordering and installation of equipment and software.
• Software support (within reason)
• Maintenance and repairs to systems at all levels
• Maintenance of network infrastructure and architecture
• Maintenance of network software systems
• Control over software licensing
• Data and network security
• Control over and maintenance of user accounts
• The development of custom software solutions, where possible and/or
reasonable within time constraints
• Support of School IT facilities for seminars and conferences
• Maintenance of 24-hour email and internet access
• Design and maintenance of the BSA web site, consisting of:
o In co-ordination with other members of staff, continuously monitoring
the development of the site and pushing its integration into all School
activities
o Designing the site
o Producing all HTML on the site