Job title: IT Business Engagement Manager
Reference: EO875
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time 35 hours a week
Based in: Kings Hill Based with hybrid/remote working
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as our IT Business Engagement Manager for the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). You will be an integral part of our IT team working closely with colleagues to ensure that the projects demands from our business areas are understood and prioritised appropriately within IT so we can deliver against CAF’s strategies and operational plans. Are you a motivated and inquisitive individual; who is a self-starter, with strong attention to detail who wants to shape and build a role within IT? If so this maybe the role for you.

At CAF you will be joining an international workforce who are passionate about accelerating society’s progress towards a fair and inclusive future for all. We are people centred, driven by innovation and together we are building a leading great and safe place to work.

In return for joining as our IT Business Engagement Manager you will receive:
• Salary up to £55,000 per annum
• 6 weeks holiday plus bank holidays
• Excellent – on-going training programme
• Excellent pension scheme
• Private Health care cover
• Life assurance
• Annual flu vaccination
• Employee Assistance programme to support your health and wellbeing
• CAF volunteering day
• Sodexo Discount Platform

As our IT Business Engagement Manager you will be:
• Be the primary contact point for all (project based) business engagement with IT
• Help business project stakeholders navigate the IT Project processes
• Arrange and facilitate business project consultancy and estimation workshops with relevant IT functions
• Facilitate and track business project resource requests to the relevant IT functions
• Balance the demands of the business against the demands of IT with a pragmatic approach and transparent communication.
• Ensure the key business stakeholders are kept up to date and informed of their progress.
• Build strong relationships with our business stakeholders so they understand the value IT delivers and challenges.
• Maintain a business project priority viewpoint and feed into relevant discussions
• Using appropriate techniques to gather, elicit, document and communicate business demand.
• Own the engagement and estimation process for business projects.
• Support the Head of Projects and Change in creating an positive and engaging environment

Skills required of our IT Business Engagement Manager:
• Proven ability to manage yourself effectively, to complete tasks to a given timeline, and to be adaptable to a fast changing environment.
• Proven experience of being able to build and manage relationships across IT and business stakeholders.
• Chair and facilitate cross functional meeting and workshops
• Proven experience of working in multiple projects across multiple project methodologies and across multiple applications
• You will have strong verbal, written and visual communication skills.
• You will be a self-starter and delivery focussed.

CAF is a Disability Confident Employer. We guarantee to interview disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role. Please advise us if you consider yourself to have a disability.

Interested in joining us as our team and being part of an organisation who are people focused and are “Together Building Opportunity”. If yes, apply today, we would love to hear from you.

Please send your CV quoting reference number EO875

If this method of applying is not possible, please contact a member of the HR team on 03000 123 566 to discuss how we can support you to apply.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.