Help Strengthen the ECF's IT Team
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2026 5:35 pm
Dear Member,
Following the retirement of our IT Manager, Nigel Towers, at the end of August, the ECF is reviewing how its IT function should be organised for the future.
We are looking in particular for someone who may be interested in taking on an IT Manager / IT Lead role, with responsibility for helping coordinate the ECF’s technology, priorities, suppliers, resilience and ongoing development.
At the same time, we do not expect all of the ECF’s IT responsibilities to sit with one individual. We are therefore also keen to hear from members with relevant professional experience who may be interested in contributing in specialist areas such as:
• cyber security and Cloudflare
• Linux and infrastructure
• Rating and LMS development management
• website technical support
• website strategy and content management
• IT service and office support
• supplier management, planning and IT governance
• development and use of AI resources
We are open-minded about how the future team should be structured. Depending on the people who come forward, responsibilities may be shared between an IT Lead, specialist volunteers, existing team members and external suppliers.
Our IT environment
The ECF operates a mixture of commercial and internally developed systems, including:
• Membership: JustGo
• Rating system: PHP, Laravel, JavaScript and MySQL
• League Management System (LMS): PHP, Drupal and MySQL
• Websites: WordPress
• Infrastructure: Linux-based virtual server environment hosted by ANS
• Cyber security and content delivery: Cloudflare
• Email and collaboration: currently Linux-based email services
• Other tools: NextCloud, online forms and a range of smaller applications and integrations
The estate supports core national services including membership, ratings, league administration and the ECF website, so resilience, security, documentation and reducing reliance on individual people are important priorities.
Flexible opportunities
We are initially inviting expressions of interest from people willing to contribute on a voluntary basis, either in a broad leadership role or in a more specialist capacity.
However, we recognise that some responsibilities may require a level of commitment that is difficult to provide voluntarily, so we are also willing to hear from people who would only consider paid work, or who would be open to either paid or voluntary arrangements.
If you have relevant experience and might be interested, please complete our short online form:
https://britchess.wufoo.com/forms/engli ... tion-form/
You do not need to have experience across all areas of IT. We are particularly interested in hearing from people who could make a strong contribution in one or more areas.
Kind regards,
ECF Office
