Senior IT Manager

Senior Manager, IT & Cyber Security
Location: Cambridge (onsite)
Salary: £67,000 - £72,000
Basis: Permanent; full-time, part-time or flexible
Eligibility: You must be eligible to work in the UK

The role

The Senior Manager, IT Support, Infrastructure and Cyber Security will play a key role developing our IT function and ensuring it keeps pace with the needs of the charity. Reporting to the Director of Operations, you will make sure that our internal IT systems and processes enable colleagues to collaborate effectively and do their best work.

You will be accountable for organisation-wide cyber security, including formulating and implementing business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and compliance with local regulation in the markets we operate, specifically NIST CSF 2.0 in the US and Cyber Essentials Plus in the UK.

You will take the lead in identifying and delivering improvements across the IT function that enable it and the whole organisation.

You will lead a talented team of IT professionals, who you will coach and develop to provide outstanding business partnership and help drive forward our mission

You will be skilled in managing change processes and building organisation-wide support. You will be an effective negotiator and used to managing a wide portfolio of operational contracts and projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop the service offering and capability of the IT support function at the Foundation
• Ensure that the Foundation has all necessary IT and business systems in place to deliver its objectives.
• Own the cyber security strategy, with regular audits and testing
• Own the Global IT Policy and ensure it is up to date and in line with current legislation and best practice.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve the range of IT tools and business systems as the organisation’s priorities develop
• Oversee and maintain robust IT infrastructure and cybersecurity frameworks, ensuring continuous alignment with NIST CSF 2.0, Cyber Essentials Plus, and emerging AI security standards.
• Contribute to the organisation’s data strategies, including next steps in our data infrastructure, integration, and analysis
• Responsible for the procurement of services, contract management and liaising with third party suppliers
• Oversee IT onboarding and training
• Keep up to date with developments in relevant legislation, including data protection
• Develop and manage the IT annual budget and plans
• Coach, develop and manage the performance of the team

Experience and personal attributes

You should have:

• Experience managing and developing IT services and systems, including SaaS solutions
• Demonstrated success overseeing multi-site and international IT infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalable operations
• Strong understanding of information and cyber security, ideally including one or all of Cyber Essentials Plus, ISO 27001 or NIST CSF 2.0
• A focus on user experience and demonstrable ability to interpret business requirements in order to successfully deliver IT and business system improvement projects
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, including the capacity to adapt your communication style to different stakeholder audiences and to liaise with external partners
• Experience managing budgets
• Experience leading a team, coaching and developing people and managing performance through giving and receiving feedback
• Strong understanding of GDPR and other regulatory frameworks
  

Ideally you’ll also have:

• Experience of working in an International organisation
• Experience using a range of systems including G Suite and Salesforce
• Experience of procurement and contract management
• Familiarity with business intelligence and visualisation tools

About us

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is an independent charity with a global mission to enable all young people to realise their full potential through the power of computing and digital technologies.

We empower schools to teach computer science and AI literacy through free curricula, classroom resources, purpose built software tools, and professional development for teachers. We inspire young people to become tech creators through the world's largest networks of coding clubs. We undertake original research that informs our work and which we use to advance the field of computer science education more broadly.

All of our resources and learning experiences are available for anyone to use at no cost. We are particularly focused on creating opportunities for young people who experience educational disadvantage and those who come from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in technology industries.

Over the past decade, we have supported hundreds of thousands of educators and tens of millions of students. We have teams in six countries (India, Ireland, Kenya, South Africa, the UK and US) and partnerships with mission-aligned non-profit organisations in over 60 countries.

We are at the forefront of the global educational movement to expand access to computer science education and AI literacy. You can learn more about our work in our latest Annual Review.

Benefits

In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a wide range of benefits for all of our colleagues.

• Paid time off. In addition to public holidays, full-time employees in the UK receive 25 days of paid annual leave initially, rising to 30 days after five years service, plus 3 additional days of paid leave for the company-wide closure at the end of each year.
• Pension. We provide an 8% employer contribution on top of your minimum 4% employee contribution.
• Private healthcare. We provide comprehensive private healthcare for all employees through Vitality Plus.
• Flexible working. We have clear policies to provide flexibility over when and where you work, helping you balance work responsibilities with the rest of your life.
• Support for parents and carers. We provide generous family leave and flexibility for parents and carers.
• Life assurance and income protection. We provide life assurance and income protection schemes to provide peace of mind for you and your family.
• Investing in learning and development. We invest in your growth and development, including through access to learning resources and training, with dedicated time for all employees.
• Travel to work. Through our Cycle-to-Work and Season Ticket Loan schemes we support cost effective and sustainable travel to work.

Timetable for applications

Closing date: 23rd October 2026 17.00 GMT
Phone screen: Week commencing 2nd November 2026
First-round interview: Week commencing 16th November 2026
Second-round interview: Week commencing 30th November 2026

Our recruitment process

All of our workplaces are inclusive spaces where we want people to feel respected, valued, and able to do their best work. We are committed to building teams that bring together people with a broad range of backgrounds, skills, and perspectives. That starts with our recruitment process.

Here's what you can expect:

• As part of your application, you will be asked to respond to a small number of questions that we will use to screen your eligibility for the role. You will also be asked to provide your CV.
• Eligible applications will be reviewed by our recruitment team and the hiring manager. We review all applications for authenticity. While we embrace the use of AI tools to assist you, all content must genuinely represent your own work, and have been reviewed and personalised by you.
• A small number of candidates will be invited to a phone call with the hiring manager.
• The purpose of this call is to check our understanding of your application and to answer any questions you have.
• We normally have two interviews, which may take place in-person. Interviews will be with the hiring manager and at least one other colleague.
• You will usually be asked to undertake a work-based assessment in advance of your interviews. This will be an opportunity for you to show how you would perform some part of the role. You will be given advance notice and clear instructions.
• If you have any questions about or feel that you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, including adjustments for neurodiversity, please contact our People and Culture team at [email protected].

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Everyone appointed to a role at the Foundation will be required to undergo a background check to confirm that you are a suitable person to work with children. Further background checks will be made at regular intervals thereafter.