Digital Workplace and AI Lead

Contract: Permanent, full-time Location: London (hybrid-working) Closing Date: 7 September 2026 About the role Trinity College London is seeking a Digital Workplace & AI Lead to establish and lead our AI and digital workplace capability. This newly created role will shape how Trinity identifies, prioritises and delivers opportunities across AI, automation and digital workplace, helping colleagues work more effectively while ensuring investment is focused on areas that deliver measurable business value. Working across Technology, Transformation, Product, Data & Insights and business teams, you will build and manage a pipeline of opportunities, taking initiatives from discovery and experimentation through to implementation, adoption and benefits realisation. You will help determine which ideas should progress, which should be scaled and where investment should stop. You will also lead key capability-building programmes, including the AI Apprenticeship Programme, Digital Champions Network, and AI Academy, helping colleagues develop the skills and confidence to use AI and digital tools effectively. A core part of the role will be ensuring innovation happens responsibly, working with relevant teams to embed appropriate governance, security, data and responsible AI controls without creating unnecessary barriers to experimentation. This is an opportunity to build a new capability from the ground up, combining strategy, delivery, stakeholder engagement and organisational adoption to create lasting impact across Trinity. About you You will have experience leading AI, automation, digital workplace or technology-enabled business improvement initiatives, with a track record of turning emerging technology into practical, measurable outcomes. You will be confident operating across both business and technology teams, working with senior stakeholders to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions and prioritise competing demands. You will bring experience developing roadmaps, delivery pipelines or capability plans, alongside a strong understanding of organisational change, adoption and the practical considerations involved in moving AI or automation from experimentation into sustainable use. You do not need to be an AI engineer, but you will need sufficient technical understanding to work credibly with engineering, architecture, data, and security teams and make informed decisions about feasibility, risk, and value. Experience with generative AI, workflow automation and technologies such as Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform, Azure AI or similar platforms would be an advantage. We are looking for someone analytical, pragmatic, and highly collaborative, with the ability to translate complex or emerging technology into clear business opportunities and practical delivery plans. Our benefits Trinity provides a work environment that is stimulating, inspiring and fair. Our approach to reward values our employees while ensuring each person’s contribution makes us great as an organisation. As an employee, you’ll enjoy a range of benefits here at Trinity. Our commitment Trinity is open to all applicants from different backgrounds and we are committed to building a more diverse and inclusive workplace. All applications are dealt with in the strictest of confidence. We actively encourages applications from candidates of all abilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we are dedicated to creating a workplace that is accessible, supportive, and welcoming for individuals with different abilities. We will make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neuro-diverse. Trinity promotes and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. In line with the requirements of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), we select all candidates for interview based on their competencies, qualifications and knowledge. To learn more about our DEI commitment as an equal opportunities employer, please visit our Equality, diversity and inclusion page. How to Apply As this is a newly created capability, we recognise that strong candidates may not have held an identical role previously. Alongside your CV, p lease include a short covering letter of no more than 500 words explaining why your experience is relevant to this role. We are particularly interested in examples where you have built or introduced a new capability, worked across business and technology teams, and turned emerging technology into practical, measurable outcomes. Your experience may not come from a role with exactly the same title. To apply, please follow the Apply for This Job link on this page and you will be directed to the Trinity College London application page. We reserve the right to close the advert earlier if we receive a high volume of interest so please do not delay if interested. Trinity College London does not hold a job visa sponsorship licence and so is not in a position to sponsor visas in the UK. All posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Upon successful appointment into the role, you will be required to complete our vetting procedures as with all Trinity College London employees. This is carried out by a 3rd party supplier and our standard background checks consist of Right to Work in the UK, Identity Check, Employment History check, Financial Probity Check, Highest Academic Qualifications Check and a basic DBS check. Trinity College London will collect and use your personal information for our recruitment process in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice . Trinity College London will hold candidate data on file for no more than six months from application submission. If you want your information to be removed earlier, please contact us directly. If we want to hold your information beyond the six months, we will contact you to get your consent. Our data protection policy can be viewed in full here .