Chief Information Technology Officer

Chief Information and Technology Officer

Academy Transformation Trust | £110,000 | Full time, permanent

Home based, with regular travel across our academies

Academy Transformation Trust is seeking a Chief Information and Technology Officer to join our C-suite and help us build a more intelligent, effective and resilient organisation.

We serve 22 academies across diverse communities, many experiencing significant disadvantage. Through ATT2030, we have established an ambitious direction for our future. Realising it requires excellent information, dependable technology and the organisational capability to bring them together.

We should be candid about our starting point. We hold a great deal of information, but we do not yet use it well enough. Our technology also needs substantial development to deliver the capability our organisation requires.

There is important work to do, and much of it is urgent.

Our ambition is that the right people have the right information, at the right time, in the right form to act effectively. Alongside that, pupils and colleagues should have secure, accessible and reliable technology that enables them to do their work well. You will lead both parts of that ambition.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will lead our existing Head of Data Strategy and IT Director. You will establish a coherent direction for information and technology, lead modernisation, connect systems and help colleagues improve how work happens across ATT. Your remit will encompass enterprise architecture, organisational intelligence, cyber security and resilience, transformation, AI, commercial strategy and the capability to welcome new academies.

As a member of the C-suite, you will also share responsibility for ATT as a whole. We expect you to contribute seriously to decisions about education, people, finance, estates, organisational design, risk and growth.

We are looking for someone who

• Brings substantial, current technology expertise and a strong record of modernising complex systems and infrastructure.
• Has improved how an organisation uses information to make decisions.
• Can move confidently between corporate strategy and the technical substance of significant decisions.
• Leads effectively through expert colleagues, creating clarity, developing capability and sustaining delivery.
• Combines intellectual curiosity and openness to challenge with the judgement and resolve to act.
• Can establish momentum quickly while building capability that endures.

You do not need to have worked in schools or academy trusts.

We actively welcome candidates from other complex sectors. We are interested in what you have learned, what you have built and how thoughtfully you could apply that experience to an organisation serving children and communities.

At ATT, we value evidence, professional expertise and careful thought. We expect leaders to listen, welcome serious disagreement and change their minds when persuaded. We also expect decisions to lead to action and improvements to become visible in colleagues’ daily work.

This is an opportunity to shape the organisation we become.

Please read the full applicant pack and ATT2030, available on our application page. They explain our ambitions, the role and the kind of leader we hope to appoint.

We encourage prospective candidates to have a confidential conversation with Mark McCourt, Chief Executive Officer, before applying. To arrange this, please contact Karen Robson, Executive Assistant to the CEO, at Karen.Robson@attrust.org.uk.

Applications should include 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

Apply: https://mynewterm.com/jobs/693972149/EDV-2026-ATTO-42823

Academy Transformation Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. Appointment will be subject to the Trust’s safer recruitment procedures and appropriate pre-employment checks.

We are a Disability Confident Employer

The successful applicant will undertake an enhanced DBS criminal record check, and online searches will be carried out in line with KCSIE 2026. We are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion and welcome all applications.  We are open to Flexible Working.