Technology, Digital, and IT Director

World Animal Protection; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 73,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme (6% match)

26 days holiday (plus service days)

Public holiday flex

Year-end 3 extra days

Life Assurance (3x salary)

Volunteer Leave (2 days)

Inclusivity benefits

Job summary

World Animal Protection seeks a Technology, Digital, and IT Director to lead the unified strategy across Technology, Digital and Data. You will shape architecture, govern data and connect platforms to build a coherent digital ecosystem, reporting to the Chief Transformation & Culture Officer.

This permanent role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, with opportunities to influence technology decisions across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Leadership at executive level across Technology, Digital and Data domains.
• Strategic thinking to design technology architecture and data governance.
• Ability to create connections across platforms to form a coherent digital ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Single point of accountability across Technology, Digital and Data domains.
• Design the technology architecture that guides future decisions.
• Build a data governance framework to empower each Directorate as a data controller.
• Create connections across platforms to deliver a coherent digital ecosystem.

Job description

Technology, Digital, and IT Director

Application Deadline: 4 October 2026

Department: People Transformation and Culture

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: International - UK

Reporting To: Chief Transformation & Culture Officer

Compensation: £73,251 - £79,530 / year

World Animal Protection is creating a new leadership role to bring unified strategic direction to our Technology, Digital, and Data capabilities. This is a rare opportunity to make this role your own and build the foundations that will shape how we make technology decisions, manage data responsibly, and deliver digital products for years to come.

As Technology, Digital, and IT Director, you'll be the single point of accountability across three interconnected domains. You'll design the technology architecture that every future system decision gets measured against. You'll build a data governance framework that makes every Directorate an accountable data controller in its own right. And you'll create connections across platforms that result in a coherent digital ecosystem.

What can we offer you?

We are offering a competitive salary and benefits including.

• Help saving for your retirement - join our pension scheme and we’ll match contributions up to 6%
• 24 days’ holiday per year when you join, plus an additional day with each year of service up to 5 days
• Opportunity to flex public holidays to an alternate day that better suits an employee and their beliefs.
• Additional 3 days to be taken at the end of the calendar year.
• 2 global Wellbeing midyear closure days
• Flexibility – the opportunity to choose start times that align with both business needs and your work-life balance, ensuring the right fit for both the job holder and the role requirements
• Life Assurance - all World Animal Protection employees receive Life Assurance. Under the Death in Service benefit scheme the employee will receive 3x annual salary to go to their nominated beneficiary.
• Volunteer Leave - 2 days per year to volunteer for a cause of your choice
• A range of 'Inclusivity Benefits': providing various types of leave to support belonging and inclusion at work and to assist our employees during critical moments. This includes leave for Bereavement, Carers, Disability, Menstrual/Menopause, Pregnancy Loss, Fertility Treatment, Gender Aff…
• Long Service Milestones to celebrate 10 year anniversary (and every subsequent 5 years) with bonus day off and employee 'shout out'
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme and Employee Wellbeing Portal

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

To achieve our aim of making World Animal Protection a Diverse and Inclusive employer, we particularly welcome applications from individuals of traditionally under-represented communities and backgrounds.

Our values and behaviours

At World Animal Protection we recruit with our values & behaviours in mind. Please bear this in mind through your application journey. These are:

• Global: We make decisions & act with a global mindset
• Diverse and Inclusive: We actively encourage and promote diversity, ensure all voices are heard and included and are committed to equal opportunities for all
• Collaborative: We work together and co-create to achieve lasting change
• Agile: We make change happen in a fast-moving world
• Growing People: We continually learn and develop
• Accountable: We are role models. We take responsibility for our actions and encourage others to do the same
• Courageous: We push boundaries, take risks and set ambitious targets