Chief Information & Technology Officer

We are looking for a corporate leader with substantial professional credibility in information, technology and transformation.

You will bring substantial and current technology expertise, together with experience of applying it at organisational scale. You should be able to move confidently between corporate strategy and the technical substance of a major decision, understanding how choices about infrastructure, platforms, integration and security affect cost, resilience, usability and future capability.

We will expect evidence that you have improved a technology environment that required significant development. You should be able to explain the weaknesses you identified, the choices you made, the alternatives you rejected and the results achieved.

Your previous title will matter less than the scale and quality of your contribution. You may already be a CIO, CTO, CITO, CDIO or equivalent executive. You may have developed the necessary breadth through another senior leadership route.

We are interested in what you have changed, how you achieved it, what endured and what the experience taught you.

Experience in schools or academy trusts is not required.

We actively welcome applicants from other complex sectors, including healthcare, financial services, professional services, retail, logistics, higher education and government.

You will need to demonstrate that you can learn a new context, respect its professional expertise and make sound judgements about which lessons transfer and which require adaptation.