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Don’t miss your chance to be part of building our brand new Digital and Technology team. If you have a passion for technology and innovation, we want to hear from you now!

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Welcome

Mid Sussex District Council is an ambitious local authority, making significant investments across all service areas, with the aim of placing the efficient use of technology at the heart of business operations.

As part of this investment, we are building a brand new Digital and Technology team to design and manage the council’s systems, and we’re giving them the opportunity to let their creativity loose across the council, helping services redesign their activities to better use and engage with technology.

If you have a passion for technology, we want to support your career development as you help us implement innovative solutions and change the way we use technology across the council, in a brand new environment that encourages collaborative learning and provides the freedom to explore new ideas and approaches.

Mid Sussex is consistently listed as one of the top 20 places to live and work in the country, with the council offices located in Haywards Heath and having excellent rail links to London, Gatwick and Brighton. As well as a competitive salary and the chance to enhance your skills and develop your career, we offer subsidised gym membership, flexible working arrangements, a generous annual leave entitlement and an attractive pension scheme.

The roles

Who are we looking for?

Operations Team Manager

Salary up to £48,540
Would you like to use your proven management skills to build and manage a brand new team? We’ll give you the freedom to develop new working practices and policies to make sure the team succeeds, and we’ll invest in staff development and training to boost careers and help us deliver amazing results for our services and customers.
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Service Delivery Manager

Salary up to £48,540
Would you like to help shape and manage the program of digital change across the council? We want you to helm our service redesign initiatives and manage our program of digital works, building your own project teams to deliver on various activities across the council. You can really make this role your own and be a director of change for the whole council.
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Infrastructure Engineer

Salary up to £40,760
We’re investing generously in our infrastructure, that’s why we need a capable and adaptable infrastructure engineer to help us design and implement new technology. You’ll be working with colleagues to shape the underlying technical skeleton of the council. We want to give you the freedom to expand your skillset and develop new ways of working, and with all the investment, there will always be something new to get stuck into.
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Service Delivery Engineer

Salary up to £35,934
This is a great opportunity for you to flex your creative muscles and develop new skills at the same time. You’ll be working on projects, helping services design solutions around effective use of technology, you’ll be configuring and maintaining business systems with the freedom to develop new approaches and experiment with new techniques, and you’ll be helping develop interfaces and manage data usage across the council. With all that, there’s absolutely no chance you’ll get bored!
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Web and digital content officer

Salary up to £32,029
We’d like you to take control of our digital content and website management and help us improve the digital offering to our customers. We’ll encourage your creativity and you’ll work with services across the council to create a modern, effective web presence.
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Service Support Technician x2

Salary up to £32,029
If you’re customer focused and like taking on a range of challenges, then this is the role for you. You’ll be assisting our colleagues across the council to ensure that everything runs smoothly, working with departments to test and deploy new solutions, and taking on the wide range of issues that come in through the helpdesk. You’ll always have the next challenge to sink your teeth into in this role.
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Working in Mid Sussex

Mid Sussex District Council is investing in services and people; building a modern resilient, forward thinking council to help deliver great value and top performing services for our residents. The council is strongly backing those individuals with a thirst to learn and develop their talents and is actively encouraging new ways of working and approaching technology.

Located in the heart of Mid Sussex in the town of Haywards Heath, the council offices are 5 minutes’ walk from the train station with Brighton and Crawley being a 20 to 25 minutes train journey away, and London just 45 minutes.

With easy access to the coast, London, Gatwick and amazing areas of natural beauty such as the south downs national park, and with the choice of busy commuter towns or sleepy picturesque villages, there’s little wonder that Mid Sussex is ranked amongst the top 20 places to live in the UK.

Mid Sussex is seeing plenty of investment from both local and central government alike, continuously striving to improve infrastructure, access to services and the quality of life for all residents.

Some of the benefits of working at Mid Sussex District Council include:

  • Generous holiday entitlement

  • Local Government Pension Scheme

  • Significant savings to membership of our 3 superb Health & Fitness Clubs

  • Free onsite parking

  • Personal & professional training opportunities

  • 50% contribution to professional membership fees