Join Save the Children UK as our interim Director of Technology, working closely with the Chief Digital & Technology Officer to oversee the strategic development, operational delivery and use of information technology and data across Save the Children UK.

Note: This is a Fixed Term Contract (covering paternity leave) until December 2025.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn, and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the Role

As Director of Technology, reporting to the Chief Digital & Technology Officer, you will lead the strategic development and operational delivery of all technology functions including infrastructure, enterprise architecture, platforms, applications, integrations, and cyber security.

You will provide strategic leadership to a talented and diverse team, working across the organisation and with international partners to embed modern, agile, data-driven practices and technologies that support our mission and operational effectiveness.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the development and implementation of a forward-thinking Technology Strategy aligned with SCUK's organisational objectives and digital transformation goals.
• Oversee enterprise architecture, infrastructure, and technology operations, ensuring platforms and systems are secure, scalable, cost-effective, and user-centric.
• Drive digital transformation by fostering innovation, agile ways of working, and a technology-enabled culture across the organisation.
• Act as a trusted advisor and partner to senior leadership, using data and insight to identify opportunities for technology-enabled solutions.
• Collaborate globally within the Save the Children movement to ensure that the international Save the Children movement maximises opportunities in the digital, data and technology space.
• Ensure cyber security and data protection standards are upheld in partnership with internal and international stakeholders, to minimise security risks and mitigate through appropriate response.

About You

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Significant experience in leading technology or digital functions at a strategic level within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong understanding of technology systems and platforms, able to understand, assess and oversee technology workplans.
• Deep understanding of the strategic role of technology in customer engagement and digital culture in supporting organisational strategy.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex technology challenges into clear, actionable strategies.
• A collaborative and inclusive leadership style, committed to building diverse, inclusive teams.
• An agile mindset: able to adapt, learn and collaborate to achieve impact.
• An adult mindset: enabling and modelling autonomy and responsibility, and sharing power.
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What We Offer You

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached documents.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here. 

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure: 

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: Save the Children | Careers

Interview Expenses: 

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section here.

For anything else you can email us on: careers@savethechildren.org.uk