Head of Digital Strategy

Head of Digital Strategy

£70,000 to £80,000

Horsham Learning Alliance is an ambitious and values driven partnership united by a shared commitment to improving life chances for every child. As the Alliance continues to grow in scale and aspiration, we are seeking an exceptional Head of Digital Strategy to play a pivotal role in leading digital change, shaping organisational capability, and ensuring technology enables sustainable, high quality outcomes across our settings

This is a new senior, trust-wide leadership role, offering the opportunity to think strategically, lead people through change, and make a tangible difference to the educational experience of thousands of pupils.

The Role

The Head of Digital Strategy will provide clear, forward thinking leadership for digital transformation across the Alliance. You will define and drive a coherent digital vision that aligns with our educational priorities, ensuring that technology, systems and ways of working evolve to meet the needs of a modern, growing organisation.

A core focus of the role will be people leadership and change management. You will lead, develop and inspire multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement and digital confidence across both central services and schools. You will work closely with senior leaders to embed new ways of working, ensuring that digital change is understood, adopted and sustained at every level.

You will oversee the development and delivery of a trust wide digital strategy that balances innovation with operational excellence. This includes modernising infrastructure and systems, improving data-driven decision-making, and enabling smarter, more efficient processes that support both teaching and organisational effectiveness.

Acting as a key strategic partner, you will translate vision into practical, scalable solutions ensuring that digital initiatives deliver real impact in classrooms, staff experience and organisational performance.

This role will suit a credible digital leader with experience of leading transformation in a complex, multi-site organisation. You will bring:

• A strong track record of leading digital strategy and transformation, with clear evidence of delivering organisational change through people
• Significant experience of leading, developing and motivating teams, with a focus on building capability and embedding new ways of working
• The ability to communicate vision and complex ideas with clarity and influence, engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A deep understanding of change management, stakeholder engagement and cultural transformation
• A pragmatic, outcomes-focused mindset, underpinned by knowledge of digital platforms, data, cyber security and operational resilience

Above all, you will be motivated by purpose. You will understand that digital strategy is not just about technology, but about people, culture and impact and that meaningful transformation happens when individuals are empowered, supported and inspired to work differently.

This is a rare opportunity to shape and lead digital transformation at a trust wide level at a point of momentum and possibility. You will join a collaborative, principled organisation that values professional expertise, invests in its people, and is committed to using digital innovation to support educational excellence.

How to apply 

Anderson Quigley is acting as an advisor to Horsham Learning Alliance. An executive search process is being carried out by Anderson Quigley in addition to the public advertisement. 

The closing date for applications is Sunday 19 April 2026. 

Applications should consist of: 

• A completed application form
• A covering letter (2 pages of A4) outlining your motivation and details of how you meet the qualification, skills and experience criteria of the person specification. 

Should you wish to discuss further details about the role in strict confidence, please get in touch with: 

• Hayley Mintern at hayley.mintern@andersonquigley.com or +44 (0)7596 954 387 

• Alasdair Redwood at alasdair.redwood@andersonquigley.com +44 (0) 7394 012 383