Non Executive Director Technology and Digital Lead

You will contribute to Board decision-making, strategy, direction, performance assessment, governance, and risk oversight. You will provide independent challenge and advice on digital modernisation, technology transformation, AI adoption, and organisational change. You will advise and coach directors, participate in Board committees, attend in-person Board meetings and the annual offsite, and maintain your knowledge of business, risk, regulation, and ethics.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice on future direction and digital modernisation
• Provide independent challenge on large digital transformations and AI adoption
• Advise on major strategic technology challenges
• Contribute to Board decision-making, strategy, and performance assessment
• Provide independent counsel and challenge to the Director and executive leadership
• Oversee executive and business performance
• Ensure operation within the Board's risk appetite and risk management framework
• Participate in and support Board committees and sub-committees
• Support, mentor, and coach directors
• Attend in-person Board meetings and the annual offsite
• Complete mandatory training
• Maintain knowledge of business risks, regulation, and ethics

Requirements

• Have recent and extensive board- and executive-level experience in an organisation of scale and complexity
• Have leadership experience in a leading-edge technological environment
• Have significant transformation, digital improvement, innovation, and research and development experience
• Have experience leading large operational businesses through large-scale change
• Have experience mentoring and coaching directors
• Have experience delivering equality, diversity, and inclusion initiatives and culture change
• Be a British citizen
• Normally have been resident in the UK for seven of the last ten years
• Be able to obtain Developed Vetting clearance
• Have no conflicts of interest, including portfolio or national-security conflicts

Benefits

• Reasonable travel and subsistence allowance