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Job title:
Systems Analyst (Service Desk Support)

Permanent contract
Location: Covent Garden
Salary: £28,600 per annum
Full time; 40 hours per week


The Royal Ballet and Opera continues to lead the way in opera, ballet, music and dance both live on stage and through multiple digital platforms, from live streaming to worldwide cinema screenings. Our Covent Garden theatre has been at the heart of London and British cultural life for three centuries. We are home to two world-class Companies: The Royal Ballet and The Royal Opera.

The Technology Services and Infrastructure team works to provide a service to all departments across the Royal Ballet and Opera facilities, including service desk support for other teams and colleagues across the whole organisation, who depend on a variety of essential systems every day.

We are now looking for an experienced Systems Analyst to join the service delivery team to provide high quality first and second line user support, problem solving, project implementation support and record keeping for the service desk and knowledge database. The service desk upholds a strong team ethic and values information flow, skill development, continuous learning and continuous improvement. If you have transferable experience in IT support and would like to develop your skills with a broad range of systems and technologies, then this is the role for you.

The ideal candidate will be a team player with these qualities:

  • Broad experience in an IT support service desk environment or demonstrable transferable skills from an end user department
  • Experience in Microsoft products, office systems and enterprise systems such as finance systems, CRM and scheduling systems
  • Experience with a ticketing system such as JIRA Service Desk
  • Demonstrated experience working in a service delivery role and good knowledge of ITIL or related procedures
  • Good base knowledge of technical solutions for common technical problems
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills with a consistent high level of customer care and responsiveness

The Royal Ballet and Opera is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment in which everyone can thrive. We particularly welcome applications from those who are from a global majority background and/or those who are disabled, as they are under-represented within our organisation. As a Disability Confident Employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential minimum criteria for our vacancies

A full job description and RBO information pack is attached below. If you have any questions or require any adjustments to the application process, please contact the Recruitment Team on hr.recruitment@roh.org.uk.

Closing date for applications: 8am, Wednesday 16th October 2024.

Applicants must have work authorisation for the UK

No agencies please




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