Head of Digital, Data and Technology Solutions

Location: UK

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £58,135 - £61,206 (including London Weighting)

Hours of Work: 35 Hours

Closing Date: 13 May 2026

Starting Salary: £58,135 - £61,206 (including London Weighting) 

Contract: Permanent 

Location: UK - Hybrid working with a minimum of 40% of your time in the London Office 

Job Profile  

The Head of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Solutions leads CAFOD’s technology and data strategy, shaping how technology and data is used to deliver impact, enhance supporter and partner relationships, and build operational sustainability and resilience.

Working across all departments, the DDaT Solutions function works in partnership with organisational leads and managers to understand business challenges and improvement opportunities, and design, develop, deliver and maintain impactful and cost-effective technology and data solutions.

The post holder leads a multidisciplinary management team, with direct accountability for Business Analysis, Data and Insight, Digital Solutions, Business Solutions and Programme Information Systems, and overall responsibility for the in-house team of business analysts, developers, architects, and data analysts within those areas. The role also manages supplier relationships, contracts and budgets to ensure value for money, quality delivery and alignment with CAFOD’s priorities.

Owning and evolving the digital, data and technology solutions operating model, the post holder ensures clear roles, decision making, delegation and effective ways of working, supports professional development and capability-building across teams, and champions best practice in solution development and problem solving in alignment with CAFOD’s strategic framework, Our Common Home.

Key Responsibilities 

Strategic Leadership and Digital Transformation 

• Lead CAFOD’s digital, data and technology solutions capability, shaping how technology and data enable mission impact, supporter engagement and operational resilience.

• Work in collaboration with the Head of Infrastructure Services to inform approach and planning in relation to technological and digital transformation

• Monitor external developments in digital, data and technology, advising senior leaders and managers on emerging risks, opportunities and best practices relevant to CAFOD’s mission.

• Develop, co-own and deliver the technology and data strategy and roadmaps aligned with CAFOD’s vision and the Our Common Home strategic framework, providing leadership on the responsible use of emerging technologies, including automation and AI, and balancing long-term transformation with stable, secure and well-governed core systems and data.

• Act as a senior adviser to the CAFOD Executive Team (CET) on technology-related opportunities, risks, investments, innovation and prioritisation, providing clear recommendations and assurance.

 Enterprise Solutions, Platforms, Data and Products 

• Hold enterprise-level accountability for CAFOD’s core platforms, data assets and data use, solution architecture and business analysis capability, ensuring decisions deliver a measurable impact on the success or effectiveness of CAFOD.

• Establish how technology and data can best support business objectives, including shaping options, validating needs, assessing feasibility, agreeing priorities, and approving solution approaches.

• Provide guidance and set standards for solution design, integration, data use and documentation to support sustainability, learning and reuse across the organisation.

• Work with CAFOD managers to ensure that technology and data solutions are usable, well-adopted and embedded into business practice, driving continuous improvement through effective system use.

Change, Delivery and Value Realisation 

• Take active ownership of the planning and delivery of systems and data capability roadmaps, making clear decisions to ensure resources are focused on the highest-value organisation needs.

• Define and oversee business cases, benefits and outcomes using insight and learning from delivery to inform future investment decisions.

• Enable effective business change by ensuring clear ownership, realistic plans, and a shared understanding of impacts, risks and benefits among stakeholders.

• Act as a senior point of contact for complex or high-risk technology or data-enabled change initiatives, and ensure quality and progress.

• Foster confidence and capability across the organisation in the effective use of technology and data, supporting adoption, learning and sustainable change.

Governance and Risk Management 

• Provide leadership to organisational technology steering groups, strengthening business ownership, shared prioritisation and effective collective decision making.

• Set organisational expectations for data governance, quality and stewardship, ensuring data is trusted accessible and used responsibly.

• Hold accountability for technology, information and delivery risks, working in partnership with the Head of Infrastructure Services to ensure appropriate governance and effective controls.

• Alongside the Head of Infrastructure, manage the digital, data and technology solutions budget, ensuring investment decisions deliver value for money and are aligned with CAFOD’s strategic priorities. This includes working in close partnership with the Head of Infrastructure Services to agree overall operating costs and shared infrastructure elements, such as user licences, data storage, hosting and core technology services, ensuring a joined-up, sustainable and transparent approach to technology expenditure across the organisation.

• Lead structured engagement and relationship management with suppliers, including market engagement, procurement documentation and assurance of delivery against contractual commitments.

• Ensure information security, safeguarding, regulatory and business continuity considerations are embedded early and consistently across the project lifecycle.

Safeguarding 

All CAFOD staff share the responsibility to promote and maintain a strong safeguarding culture, including identifying the key actions they should take given their role and responsibilities.

Job Specific Competencies

1. Experience leading enterprise-scale digital, data or technology capabilities, with accountability for strategy, delivery and value realisation.

1. Ability to shape and lead technology and data-enabled change, balancing innovation with risk, security and operational resilience.

1. Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and developing capability across digital, data and technology disciplines.

1. Ability to translate organisational strategy into clear technology and data priorities, investment decisions and delivery roadmaps

1. Experience working effectively with senior stakeholders, facilitating decision-making and providing clear advice, challenge and assurance.

CAFOD is a welcoming, supportive workplace committed to a safe, inclusive culture where everyone is respected. CAFOD will make reasonable adjustments at every stage of the recruitment process to ensure candidates with disabilities or individual needs are fully supported. 

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults  

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of, and consent to, these recruitment procedures. 

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