Chief Information Officer

SUMMARY

Since 1941, Charlotte Country Day School (“Country Day”) has built upon a long legacy of firsts among the Charlotte region’s independent schools, introducing groundbreaking programs and progressive ideas. Country Day was the first school in Charlotte to offer an international studies program, and is still the only independent school in the region to have a separate campus for middle school students.

Now serving over 1,700 students in JK-12, Country Day offers students and their families an unsurpassed opportunity to prepare for the future, grounded in tradition and shaped by generations of visionary leaders. Country Day holds a profound commitment to lifelong learning, hands‑on learning, individualized attention, and a caring, inclusive community.

The arrival of a new head of school this year and forthcoming strategic roadmap has created an ideal moment for Country Day to step back, reflect, and reimagine the role technology can play in service of the school’s mission and student learning outcomes. The CIO will be a new position for the school, which has previously had separate departments for IT and educational technology leadership.

This role will unify both IT and ed tech under a single division that strategically builds and defines Country Day’s technology ecosystem to elevate teaching, learning, and operations across the school. The CIO will directly supervise 5 direct reports including divisional ed tech coordinators and an IT systems manager, who in turn supervises the IT operations team of 9 other employees.

The ideal candidate will offer a balance of hands‑on and visionary leadership—someone capable of thinking both strategically and systematically, lending a curator’s mindset to refine and select the technologies and systems to best support student learning and operations at Country Day. The CIO will report to the assistant head of school and will serve as a key member of the leadership team.

Country Day looks forward to welcoming the CIO to begin July 1, 2026, or earlier by mutual agreement.

12M & Ed Tech Recruiting is running the search on behalf of Charlotte Country Day School. Applications received by January 25 will receive priority review. For application instructions and the full job opportunity statement, please visit:

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Priority

Virtual Semifinal Round :
Week of February 16

On‑site Final Round :
Early March

Decision Announced : March 16, 2026

Start Date : July 1,or earlier by mutual agreement)

Reports To :
Assistant Head of School

Classification :
Full‑time, Exempt

SPECIFIC DUTIES

School wide Technology Strategy

• Oversee multiple functional units including IT infrastructure, data/systems, and educational technology and all operations and project coordination within those units.

• Run a technology department that supports academic innovation in a scalable and sustainable fashion while adhering to best practices for an enterprise environment.

• Collaborate with senior leadership and key stakeholders to align technology initiatives, policies, and services to the needs of each campus and various all‑school departments.

• Inspire the technology team and the faculty community to model and support best practices in innovation, technology integration, and instructional design.

Educational Technology

• Evaluate emerging technologies and guide senior academic leaders on strategic and operational decisions involving instructional technology, hardware, software, and programs.

• Oversee the implementation of technology strategy and integration of the curricular arc into core disciplines and other parts of the school’s curriculum.

• Design, deliver, and oversee professional development and growth experiences for faculty and staff in areas of technology integration and instructional design.

• Develop and standardize school wide technology policies, including comprehensive best practices around the use of AI.

IT and Information Systems

• Identify and implement opportunities for connecting and consolidating data systems, to ensure datasets are current, reporting is reliable, and redundancies are minimized.

• Lead the periodic review of the school’s systems…