Chief Information and Technology Officer (AI)

Location: Home-based within the UK with regular travel across ATT academies; applicants must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and meet the travel requirements.

Salary: £110,000 annually (FTE)

Company

hirify.global serves 22 academies across diverse communities and is developing its information, technology and organisational capabilities through the ATT2030 direction.

What you will do

• Lead the Head of Data Strategy and IT Director, establishing a coherent direction for information and technology.
• Lead technology modernisation, connect systems and improve how work happens across the Trust.
• Oversee enterprise architecture, organisational intelligence, cyber security, resilience, transformation, AI, commercial strategy and the capability to welcome new academies.
• Improve how information is used to support timely, effective organisational decisions.
• Contribute as a C-suite leader to decisions on education, people, finance, estates, organisational design, risk and growth.

Requirements

• Substantial, current technology expertise and a strong record of modernising complex systems and infrastructure.
• Experience improving how an organisation uses information to make decisions.
• Ability to move between corporate strategy and the technical substance of significant decisions.
• Effective leadership through expert colleagues, including creating clarity, developing capability and sustaining delivery.
• Intellectual curiosity, openness to challenge, judgement and resolve to act.
• Ability to establish momentum quickly while building enduring capability.
• Experience in schools or academy trusts is not required; experience from other complex sectors is welcomed.
• Must be able to work from within the UK, travel regularly across ATT academies and work in the UK without sponsorship from ATT.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time appointment.
• Values evidence, professional expertise, careful thought, serious disagreement and visible improvements in daily work.
• Flexible working is available.
• Appointment is subject to safer recruitment procedures, an enhanced DBS criminal record check and online searches in line with KCSIE update 2026.
• Disability Confident Employer committed to diversity, equality and inclusion.

Hiring process

• Submit a completed application form and a supporting statement of no more than 1,500 words addressing the three questions in the applicant pack.
• Closing date: 6 November 2026; interviews: 12 November 2026.
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment.