Trust EdTech and AI Lead

Required: Start when available for release from home school

Salary: To be negotiated depending upon experience

Part Time - 1 days per week (FTE 0.2)

Initial fixed term to August 2027 

Are you interested in developing your career but keen to remain working in our Trust? Are you keen to learn more about strategic leadership in a cross-school collaborative environment? Does the concept of cross-phase working excite you? If so, read on. 

We are looking to appoint someone from within the trust to take a lead on EdTech and AI development and implementation. This is a significant role and one identified within our strategic plan as something that requires specific leadership. The role will sit within the Trust Education Team, but also link closely with the work of Luke Harman, Director of IT. 

This role is being made available as part of our drive to provide increased career opportunities for staff within our schools to lead on cross-school collaboration and development in addition to working in one of our schools.  

As our EdTech Lead, you will champion educational technology, including artificial intelligence, across all our schools developing and embedding strategy to ensure that all are confidently using EdTech and AI tools to enhance teaching and learning and that staff are empowered through professional learning and collaboration. You will ensure that devices and platforms are deployed equitably, blended learning is embedded, and all practice fully aligns with AET policies. 

Your aim is to ensure that emerging technologies are adopted thoughtfully, drive innovation, improve outcomes, and support a Trust-wide culture of safe, inclusive, and research-informed digital practice which prepares learners for a digital future.

You will be an excellent classroom practitioner with strong experience using educational technology, including a deep understanding of current and emerging EdTech and AI tools. You are also a confident communicator and collaborator, able to translate digital strategy into practical, scalable classroom practice and deliver high-quality professional learning.

Please submit a written application of no more than one page to Mr Alan Gray, CEO, via HR@aetrust.uk, clearly demonstrating:

• The required knowledge, skills and experience relevant to the post

• Your vision and progression of the post

• Your ability to work collaboratively to achieve the highest possible standards

Closing Date for applications:  9am Tuesday 3 February 2026 

Interview Date: From Thursday 5 February 2026

For further information and a job description, please speak to the Central HR Team.

AET is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Appointment to a post with AET is subject to a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check, as well as other pre-appointment checks including an online check, as outlined in Keeping Children Safe in Education.

Our aim is to build on our proven track records of maintaining exceptional standards and driving continuous school improvement. We are building a collaborative partnership of schools which will provide an exceptional educational experience, both within and outside the classroom, by promoting excellence and stretching challenge.

We are committed to the aim of ensuring that everyone who applies to work for us receives fair treatment and we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of age, disability, race, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership and caring status. We expect all our staff to demonstrate a commitment to advancing equality of opportunity and fostering good relations.