Package Description: Erskine Stewart’s Melville Schools are currently recruiting for a Supporting Applications Lead to join the ICT Department on a permanent, full-time basis from April 2026 (subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks). This is a permanent, full-time role, working Monday to Friday 8:30am to 4:30pm, with a salary of £43,720. The role is based across both sites at Ravelston and Queensferry Road, with opportunities to work remote in discussion with the direct line manager.
The purpose of the role is to ensure the school's applications are effectively integrated, maintained, and aligned with user needs, delivering a seamless experience for parents, staff, and pupils. This will include such duties as:
- Analysing and understanding system needs by collaborating with key internal and external stakeholders to inform application strategy and delivery.
- Overseeing the application architecture and roadmap to ensure future-proofed solutions, starting with the implementation of a new MIS.
- Ensuring applications are fit for purpose, cost-effective, and secure, particularly those supporting teaching and learning.
The successful candidate must have experience overseeing the delivery and maintenance of applications, working in an application support environment, and possessing knowledge of project delivery. They should hold a relevant degree in Information Technology or a related field, with certifications such as TOGAF being desirable, along with familiarity with MIS systems. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, combined with a proactive and organised approach, will be essential for success in this role.
To learn more about this role, please access the job description provided.
Eligibility | ESMS is unable to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. International applicants will therefore be unable to apply for and secure a Skilled Worker visa. The successful candidate will only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right work in the UK. |
Benefits | Staff are offered a range of benefits including: a generous holiday allowance, enhanced sick pay, family friendly policies, use of the Schools’ swimming pool and fitness room outside school hours, membership of the ESMS Discount and Benefits Scheme, including a range of discounts at 130,000 retail and entertainment locations. |
Values | We are looking for individuals who can embody and promote ESMS values of Kindness, Confidence, Resilience, Integrity, and Curiosity while role modelling behaviours in line with our school pillars of Ambition, Innovation, and Community. |
ESMS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Applicants must undergo child protection screening, including checks with past employers and Disclosure Scotland.
All staff working at ESMS have direct access to young people therefore all posts within the school are considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Any enquiries about this position should be directed to recruitment@esms.org.uk.
The closing date for applications is 12pm on 9 April 2026. ESMS reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we experience a high level of candidate applications.
About ESMS
Welcome to the ESMS, a vibrant family of independent schools, set in beautiful grounds in the heart of Edinburgh. We offer a co-educational nursery and junior school, single-sex but closely twinned secondary education, and a co-educational sixth form.
We are a consistently award-winning School, with an educational legacy that stretches back more than 300 years. Our Schools have always been pioneers of rounded education. Children’s education is underpinned by our values: kindness, confidence, resilience, integrity and curiosity. From virtual reality headsets in the classroom to developing one of the first outdoor learning programmes in Scotland, we are always searching for new ways to develop the whole child.
The people that work for us are passionate, pioneering and strive for excellence in everything they do. We value the incredible contributions they make to school life, we invest in their careers and we support their ambitions so that they flourish professionally and personally.
Benefits
Employees get access to a range of benefits including:
- Fee remission from Nursery to S6
- Free school lunches
- Free Sports’ Club membership, including access to pool and fitness suites
- Generous holiday allowance
- Generous pension
- Death in service benefit
- Family friendly policies, including enhanced maternity leave
- Membership of the ESMS Discount and Benefits Scheme, including a range of discounts at 130,000 retail and entertainment locations
- Employee Assistance Service
- Cycle to work scheme
- Car leasing salary sacrifice scheme
- Annual professional review process
- Regular salary reviews
- Funding towards professional qualifications