Role Overview
Full time
Oxygen Conservation is entering one of the most important chapters of its growth. We are scaling our operations and accelerating our adoption of AI across the whole organisation. We need a Head of IT who can lead across both simultaneously: not just keeping the lights on but genuinely raising the ceiling for what our team can do. You will work alongside Oxygen House, our IT partner, and you will be OC’s most senior internal technology voice, setting strategy, driving adoption, and ensuring our IT infrastructure and capability is always a step ahead of where the business needs to go.
As passionate as you likely are about IT, to be truly fulfilled you might be looking for more. You may be seeking a role that’s challenging and rewarding in equal measure, amazing colleagues, a culture of care for people, and a mission you believe in. That is what you will find with Oxygen Conservation.
We are working hard to fight the climate crisis and reverse the biodiversity collapse. The team is small by design, fast-moving by necessity, and deeply committed to everyone who works with us. We care about the people in this team, and we want to give you the opportunity to make a real difference, not just to our IT infrastructure but to how the whole organisation does its best work every single day.
Closing date: Until we find someone awesome!
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Are you a strategic thinker who is equally comfortable in the detail? The kind of leader who inspires confidence in a boardroom conversation about technology strategy and equally in a one-to-one coaching session with a colleague who has never built an AI project or skill. You set direction, build trust, and make things happen without being asked. Here is a snapshot of the strengths you’ll bring:
ENVIRONMENT
- A genuine passion for the natural world and a conviction that scaling conservation is one of the most important challenges of our time.
IMPACT
- An ability to distil complexity into a deliverable IT strategy that creates tangible outputs and measurable value.
- Deep expertise across infrastructure, security, systems, and technology adoption, combined with the commercial acumen to prioritise effectively.
- Excellent knowledge of AI tools and the ability to support people to achieve more with everchanging technology.
ADVENTURE
- Thrives in dynamic, fast-moving environments where the priorities evolve quickly and certainty is a luxury.
- Comfortable balancing speed and rigour, moving quickly without cutting corners on the things that matter.
TOGETHERNESS
- An inspiring leader in the broadest sense; someone people want to follow, whose standards raise the performance of everyone around them.
- The ability to communicate complex ideas simply and credibly, whether you’re presenting to the board, engaging with external partners, or helping a colleague understand why their data is in the cloud.
- Able to build trust at pace, invest in relationships across the team, and bring a genuine care for the people whose working lives your decisions will shape.
At Oxygen Conservation, character matters more than capability. We recruit for potential, not experience. The strategic expertise matters. The leadership character matters more. The genuine excitement about what AI and technology can do for conservation matters most of all.
We are committed to having a genuinely diverse team drawn from across the country, with a wide range of lived and learnt experiences. You might have skills in some, but not all, of the areas above. Whatever your background, we would love to hear from you if you think you can make a real difference with Oxygen Conservation.
What we’d love you to do
IT Strategy: Own and deliver OC’s IT strategy, building a clear roadmap that aligns technology investment with our organisational and commercial priorities.
Technology Leadership: Make confident, well-reasoned decisions about technology direction, communicating them clearly to the CEO, leadership team, and board where relevant.
Competitive Advantage: Build the conditions for OC to become an increasingly technology-enabled organisation, reducing friction, improving performance, and creating genuine competitive advantage.
Infrastructure and Security: Act as OC’s primary internal IT authority, working closely with Oxygen House to ensure infrastructure, security, and compliance standards are always ahead of where the business needs them to be.
AI Strategy: Lead OC’s AI strategy, defining how the organisation adopts, embeds, and maximises the value of AI tools across every function.
AI Adoption: Drive meaningful and measurable improvements in how the team uses AI to work faster, think better, and deliver more.
AI Literacy: Build AI confidence and literacy across the team through coaching, training, and hands-on enablement, creating an organisation where AI fluency is the norm.
IT Operations: Maintain a reliable, secure, and well-documented IT operation that the whole team experiences as an enabler, not an obstacle.
Onboarding: Ensure every new team member arrives to a seamless, well-prepared IT environment from day one.
Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement continuous improvements to how OC uses technology, always asking what better looks like and building toward it.
What you need to be awesome
Each role is different. Your location may be different. Your needs might be different. We will work with you to create a role and package that allows you to be incredible. The below details what every role will include, and what we feel every company should provide.
Your resource pack-
Your Working Environment
Most of our roles, unless site specific allow you the freedom to work from anywhere in the country, should you need help with this we too will be there to support.
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Best Teammates
We always want to ensure every member of the team has the right support needed. We are a tight knit team, always sharing, meeting and working together. Although we work remotely from one another the culture we have shaped allows you to never feel alone.
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Do What You Love
If you bring a passion for conservation and a care for the environment, we’ll support you to create your dream role.
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Tools to perform
We will ensure you are provided with the equipment you need to be incredible in your role.
Our interview process - what to expect
We hire people that are the best at what they do. And just as important as it is to discover if you're a good fit for us, you need to determine if we are a good fit for you.
1Apply
This is the first step to becoming part of the team. Simply click the ‘Apply Now’ button to complete our application form, and show us how awesome you are!
CV’s are needed, but on their own we don’t feel they tell us enough about who you really are. So, we have listed just a couple of questions to allow us to learn more about you.
2Opportunity to Shine
If your application is successful a member (or two) of the team will have an introductory call with you, to answer any initial questions you may have. After which, if successful, we will set an exciting role specific challenge for you to complete in advance of your interview. An opportunity for us to see you shine.
3Interview
We hate for this part to be too corporate and regimented. Instead, we will have a relaxed conversation to get to know one another, an opportunity to ask questions and learn more.
We recognise that this process is two way and that you will be interviewing us perhaps even more than we will be interviewing you – we promise that it won’t be a dull process.
4Decision
If our passion for what we do aligns with yours and we think you’ll be a great addition, we will invite you to join our growing team. If you love what you’ve learnt we hope you will accept, to be a part of our mission to Scale Conservation.
