Higher Education

Over 10 years’ experience operating within the HE Sector.

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Here at Strategic People we are proud to support the Higher Education sector with their business change, IT and digital transformation projects. As a trusted supplier of consultancy, contract and permanent IT resource to institutions throughout the UK, we specialise in IT Change & Transformation, Data Architecture, HE Systems and Senior Level Appointments.

With over 10 years’ experience in the HE sector, our specialist Higher Education Consultants work hard to provide Universities with the best possible staffing solutions, often on an exclusive basis. We cover any resource requirement from individual permanent or consultant hires to full project teams.

Our HE team network with the best talent both inside and outside of the sector; our candidates are passionate about IT change and transformation, and come with the talent to take your IT team to the next level. Our key strength is finding those candidates who best fit your culture as well as providing the industry’s best technical expertise.

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The roles that we recruit for in Higher Education:

it-director

C-Suite/
IT Director

Heads of Department (IT, Systems, Data, Architecture, Planning, Registry)

programme

Programme Manager/
Project Manager

developer

Developer (Student Systems, SITS, Banner, CMS, MS Dynamics, VLE, Moodle)

cloud

Architecture (Data,
Cloud, Solutions)

data

Business, Systems,
Data Analysts

finance

HR/Finance/Payroll Systems (Oracle, Agresso, Workday, Midland iTrent, CoreHR)

We network with the best talent across the Higher Education sector
and can provide key skills in the following professions:

housing

Implementations & upgrades across
HR & Finance Systems

security

Infrastructure/Architecture/
Cloud/Cyber Security

analysts

CRM Developers, Business Analysts, Project
Managers (MS Dynamics, Salesforce)

data

Business Intelligence/Data/Cloud

project

Project Transformation & Change (Project Managers, Business Analysts, Portfolio/Change Manager)

appointments

Senior Appointments/C-Suite

What our candidates think

"I have no hesitation in recommending Strategic People. Their consultants kept in regular contact with you throughout the recruitment process and has even continued to check in with me after I started in my new role to see how I was getting on. Their professionalism, knowledge and enthusiasm during our initial conversation was the reason I was happy to work with them and explore the opportunity they presented to me. They matched me perfectly with my new employer, which meant no time was wasted and it made the whole experience one I simply can't fault."

"A huge thank-you to Strategic People, they are what recruitment consultants are about. We talked/ they listened/ we shared feed back/ negotiated and here we are, always kept in touch throughout the whole process and even now as I am about to start my new role I got a message asking did I need anything..way to go SP"

"Very friendly, patient and has a good heart.Strategic People consultants are really easy to talk too, and on top of that they get the job done.Furthermore, they even helped me before an interview by going through my presentation together"

"Since I engaged with Strategic, I have found the consultants to be professional with a clear view of representing the clients requirements."

"From the start of setting up the telephone and face-to-face interviews through to the being assigned the role I have found Strategic to be professional at all times, very communicative and informative and able to understand clients requirements and respond to them quickly but ensuring ‘quality’ is considered and met."

Head of PMO

"Strategic's strengths lie in the ability to build and maintain solid professional relationships. Attention to detail is excellent and awareness of technical subject matter is impressive. The focus is continually centred on achieving the right outcome."

"I strongly recommend Strategic to potential clients."

Finance Programme Manager