Strategic CIO: Tech Transformation & Cyber Resilience

Academy Transformation Trust; Sutton Coldfield; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Academy Transformation Trust seeks a senior technology leader to set a unified information and technology direction across 22 academies, reporting to the Chief Executive and guiding the Head of Data Strategy and IT Director. The role involves modernising a substantial technology estate and ensuring decisions are informed by robust information systems.

Based at home with regular travel between academies, the post shares responsibility for trust-wide strategy, education, people, finance, estates

Qualifications

• Senior technology leadership experience at organisational scale.
• Proven record of modernising complex systems and infrastructure.
• Experience improving information usage to inform decisions.

Responsibilities

• Set a coherent direction for information and technology across the trust.
• Lead modernisation of systems and infrastructure and connect them.
• Lead enterprise architecture and organisational intelligence.
• Lead cyber security and resilience.
• Lead transformation, AI and commercial strategy.
• Build the capability to welcome new academies.
• Ensure the right people have the right information at the right time, in the right form.
• Ensure pupils and colleagues have secure, accessible and reliable technology.
• Help colleagues improve how work happens across the trust.
• Lead the Head of Data Strategy and IT Director through expert colleagues.
• Share responsibility for trust-wide decisions on education, people, finance, estates, organisational design, risk and growth.

Skills

Strategic leadership

IT governance

Stakeholder management

Cyber security

Enterprise architecture

Transformation leadership

Job description

Academy Transformation Trust seeks a senior technology leader to set a unified information and technology direction across 22 academies, reporting to the Chief Executive and guiding the Head of Data Strategy and IT Director. The role involves modernising a substantial technology estate and ensuring decisions are informed by robust information systems.

Based at home with regular travel between academies, the post shares responsibility for trust-wide strategy, education, people, finance, estates