This is an exciting new opportunity to shape the future of technology and digital capability across five South West charities. We are seeking an exceptional Regional Chief Technology Officer who is motivated by both challenge and purpose; someone who can harness technology to make a tangible difference to how our faith-based charities support church communities.
Working across Bath & Wells, Bristol, Exeter, Salisbury and Truro, this role offers a rare platform to influence at scale. The successful candidate will lead a region-wide programme of digital transformation and process optimisation, helping modernise systems, strengthen cyber resilience and unlock efficiencies that release resources for mission and ministry.
This is not technology for its own sake. We are looking for someone who combines strategic insight with practical delivery; a leader who can translate complex technical possibilities into real-world improvements for staff, clergy and volunteers. You will play a key role in shaping the responsible adoption of emerging technologies, including AI, while ensuring strong governance, security and compliance.
Please note that, whilst the role will be primarily home-based, the post-holder will be required to travel regularly across the Southwest region, with an onsite presence in each organisation at least once per month.
Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership:
- Develop, articulate, and implement a shared digital transformation and technology strategy that is directly aligned with the overarching mission and strategic goals of the five dioceses.
- Act as the principal technology advisor to the Diocesan Secretaries and their senior leadership teams.
Process Mapping & Optimisation:
- Lead a comprehensive, collaborative review of key administrative and operational processes within the Diocesan Boards of Finance (DBFs) and in parishes where appropriate.
- Use process mapping techniques to identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and areas for improvement, and then design and implement optimised workflows.
AI & Responsible Innovation:
- Actively research, evaluate, pilot, and implement appropriate AI and automation tools to enhance efficiency, support fundraising, and improve service delivery.
- Ensure all innovation is undertaken responsibly, ethically, and with a clear focus on tangible benefits.
Stakeholder Management & Engagement:
- Build and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders across all five dioceses, including clergy, staff, and volunteers.
- Foster a culture of digital literacy and champion the benefits of change in a clear, accessible, and empathetic manner.
Project & Change Management:
- Oversee the full lifecycle of technology and process improvement projects, from initial conception and business case development through to delivery, user training, and final handover.
- Employ robust project management methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Qualifications, Training & Experience:
- Proven and extensive senior technology leadership experience (e.g., CTO, Head of IT, Director of Digital Transformation) with clear evidence of strategic impact.
- Relevant degree (or equivalent) in a technology-related discipline, with appropriate professional certifications in technology, architecture, project or change management, and membership of a relevant professional body.
- Strong track record in business process mapping, analysis and re-engineering delivering measurable efficiency gains.
- Practical experience evaluating, procuring and implementing modern technology solutions, including cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft 365), CRM systems and data analytics tools.
- Experience in the charity, non-profit or similarly complex, values-driven sector is highly desirable. Demonstrable experience of, or well-informed and practical interest in, the responsible and ethical application of AI and automation in an organisational context.
- Significant experience in technology strategy, budget management, vendor negotiation and delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder programmes.
Competencies & Behavioural requirements:
- Exceptional communicator and translator: Able to convey complex technical concepts in clear, accessible language and influence a wide range of non-technical stakeholders with confidence.
- Strategic yet pragmatic thinker: Sees the big picture and aligns technology with organisational priorities, while remaining hands-on and focused on practical, value adding solutions.
- Collaborative and emotionally intelligent leader: Builds trust and consensus across diverse stakeholders and cultures, leading change with empathy, credibility and sensitivity.
- Resilient and delivery-focused: Proactive and self-motivated, with the drive and discipline to deliver complex, multi-year programmes and achieve measurable outcomes.
- Culturally astute and values-aware: Demonstrates understanding of, and respect for, the Church of England’s context, governance and ethos, navigating the environment with diplomacy and good judgement.
Our benefits include:
- Generous company pension
- A comprehensive health & wellbeing programme, inlcuding an Employee Assistance Programme
- Paid volunteering & study leave allowace
- Company events
- Home working
The Diocese of Salisbury is a Christian community of churches, schools and chaplaincies serving one million people over 2000 square miles.
This role presents opportunity to work innovatively & responsively, creating new, unique, & informative LGBTQ+ affirmative resources, providing crisis support, prevention & wellbeing initiatives; along with having a developmental role in upskilling & supervising sessional staff, trainees, interns & volunteers.
This is an exciting job opportunity to join a dynamic & committed team, in a key frontline role working directly within our Heads-Out mental health service, which provides individualised mental health plans, crisis safety plans and support, mental wellbeing workshops, varied mental health support groups including for those seeking asylum, a trans & non-binary group; LGBTQ+ mental health group, and LGBTQ+ social connections & activities group.
Opportunities will include delivery of specialised interventions, taking direct referrals and helping to support & stabilise those at heightened risk and/ or living through mental health crisis, plus psychoeducation workshops and group programmes will further enable you to engage, empower & support participants to build confidence, develop skills, strategies & achieve goals to improve, maintain & best manage mental health, increase mental wellbeing, and reduce and/ or prevent future crisis.
elop is a well established thriving and award-wining London based community-led LGBTQ+ mental health & wellbeing charity offering a range of high-quality and professional mental health, counselling and wellbeingsupport services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBTQ+) communities.
There will be one regular evening/ week and occasional other evenings and weekend working required.
NB: There will initially be both in-person office-based working with some remote home-based working required whilst we’re awaiting completion of building works and relocation to new premises
Interviews will take place Friday 26 June 2026 between 9.30am – 15.00 pm
To better the mental health and well-being of LGBTQ+ people, and to challenge the discrimination and inequalities that our community face.


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Introduction to Reset
Reset is a bold new incubation designed to dramatically change the lives of some of the most vulnerable children in England today for the better.
Reset exists for children who are on, or at risk of being placed on Deprivation of Liberty orders due to the high risks they face from themselves or others, their complex and intersecting needs, and due to the lack of effective support available.
The children Reset will support are likely to be aged 12 to 18 and face complex challenges that often stem from the impact of traumatic childhood experiences, such as mental ill-health, self-harming, being sexually and/or criminally exploited and getting caught in harmful risk-taking behaviours including the use of harmful substances such as drugs and alcohol.
Reset is determined to ensure that, wherever possible, children are able to thrive back within their own families and/or communities.
About the role
We are looking for a highly organised, proactive and thoughtful coordinator to support the Chief Executive and founding team during this exciting early stage of Reset’s development.
Alongside executive support, this role offers exposure to the breadth of work at Reset, from operations to communications, philanthropy and wider organisational work.
To thrive in the role, you will be highly organised, proactive, detail-oriented and keen to contribute across a small and ambitious team where no two days will be the same. You will enjoy working flexibly and collaboratively, building relationships, and helping things run smoothly for the team and partners around us.
This role will play an important part in helping shape Reset’s culture, systems and ways of working during this early stage of development.
With a strong commitment to your growth, we offer support to help you excel professionally and advance your career, as well as a flexible working culture that champions both impact and balance. We provide in-office collaboration time with genuine flexibility to support your wellbeing, personal commitments, and life outside work.
Job Description
The role:
Reset’s Coordinator will provide high-quality organisational and administrative support to the Chief Executive and wider founding team, enabling them to work efficiently and to maximum effect.
You will play an important role in keeping the organisation running smoothly day-to-day while driving key projects and priorities across the organisation. As part of a small, high-impact team, you will gain broad exposure to a wide range of work, take on real responsibility and play a vital role in helping Reset establish itself successfully.
This role would suit someone who is highly organised, eager to learn and energised by a fast-moving and mission-driven environment where priorities shift and no two days are the same.
Key responsibilities
Executive Support
- Proactively manage complex diaries, scheduling and meeting coordination for the Chief Executive and senior team
- Anticipate the needs of the senior team by keeping on top of key priorities
- Coordinate travel, accommodation and logistics
- Prepare meeting agendas, papers and briefing documents
- Take notes, track and follow through on actions from meetings where required
- Draft emails, presentations and other documents
- Support preparation for external meetings, events and presentations
Coordination and Administration
- Support the delivery of organisational priorities and projects
- Maintain clear systems, records and filing processes
- Facilitate internal meetings and team logistics
- Assist with office management and operational administration
- Support governance processes, including preparing papers for board meetings
Stakeholder Support
- Act as a professional and welcoming point of contact for external partners and stakeholders
- Manage meeting logistics and support ongoing communications
- Support follow-up actions and relationship management
Wider team support
- Contribute to building a positive, organised and collaborative team culture
- Proactively contribute to improving systems, processes and ways of working across Reset
- Support ad hoc projects and tasks across the organisation
- Take initiative and help solve problems as they arise
- Support research, briefing and background preparation across organisational priorities where needed
Who we are looking for
We are looking for someone who is organised, proactive and keen to learn and who is comfortable in a small, evolving organisation where priorities may change quickly. You do not need extensive experience, but you do need strong judgement, attention to detail and a willingness to take ownership.
Essential skills, experience, and attributes
- Passionate about creating a fairer society where all young people thrive
- Previous administrative, operations or coordination experience, ideally supporting senior level staff or small teams
- Excellent organisational, time management and planning skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build positive working relationships at all levels
- Proactive, adaptable and solution-focused, with the willingness to take initiative in a start-up environment
- A commitment to implementing and improving systems, processes and ways of working as the organisation grows
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy in managing information, schedules and documentation
- The ability to exercise good judgement Strong IT skills, including confidence using Microsoft Office / Google Workspace
- Ability to work with discretion, professionalism and confidentiality, including working with confidential documentation and information
- Right to work in the UK
Desirable experience
- Experience working in a charity, education, public service or start-up environment
- Experience organising meetings, events or projects
- Interest in social impact, children’s services or systems change
Development Opportunity
This role offers an excellent opportunity to learn and grow within a fast-moving, mission-driven organisation. The successful candidate will work closely with experienced senior leaders and gain broad exposure across how a new organisation is built and run, including operations, partnerships and organisational development.
Over time, there will be opportunities to take on greater responsibility depending on your strengths and interests.
Incubation by Purposeful Ventures
Reset will be incubated by Purposeful Ventures.
About Purposeful Ventures
Our vision is of a fairer society where all young people thrive.
Purposeful Ventures partners with social entrepreneurs and philanthropists to improve the education and well-being of young people from their earliest years.
We define and diagnose the issues affecting children and young people, analyse evidence and explore the most promising solutions. We then select, accelerate and, where we find a gap, incubate organisations which tackle those issues. We offer more than just funding to our charitable organisations. Our expertise, operational experience and networks enable us to deliver tailored, hands-on support with a relentless commitment to system change.
We are working with a wide range of organisations across the following portfolio areas to build and strengthen outstanding organisations that deliver systemic impact.
The vision of Purposeful Ventures is for a fairer society where all young people thrive. We work with social entrepreneurs, organisations and philanthropists that share our vision. Through our work with these partners, young people are given opportunities in education and beyond, helping them reach their true potential.
To date, Purposeful has provided Reset with expertise and funding to complete an 18-month research, feasibility and development phase to enable the ground to be laid to establish the initial Reset Practice in Autumn 2026. By launching Reset as an incubation, Reset benefits from the oversight, governance, expertise, operations (HR, finance, and IT) and network of the Purposeful team while being able to focus on the delivery of creating Reset as an organisation that can have immediate impact and flourish in the future.
We are excited to begin the search for Reset’s Coordinator. We have secured initial funding and are actively securing funding for the full two-year pilot, which includes funds for these roles. We appreciate that candidates are likely to need clarity around timing, funding and transitions, and we will have open discussions with candidates about fundraising milestones during the interview process.