Director of Technology

Salary: $ - $ Annually

Education

Concord Academy, a boarding and day school for grades 9 through 12, is located in historic Concord, Massachusetts, less than 20 miles from Boston. Known for its intellectually curious students, accomplished faculty, and deeply relational approach to education, CA is creating a new director of technology position to provide dedicated internal leadership for a technology program long supported by school employees, department leaders, and external partners.

For an accomplished technology leader, this is an opportunity to join a distinctive school at an important moment, build from a dependable foundation, and help to connect different technology initiatives at the school under one roof.

For more than a decade, two internal technology professionals and a team of professionals from OunceIT, CA’s longtime managed-service provider, have worked together to maintain daily service, advance infrastructure, guide systems work, and develop substantial institutional knowledge. As departments have adopted specialized platforms, integrations, data flows, and support pathways, technology decisions have become more complex. The transition to Veracross, now underway, has made the need for coordination more visible.

CA now needs one internal leader who can take responsibility for the full technology environment, coordinate people and partners, recommend strategic priorities for technology that reflect CA’s institutional goals, and make systems and services easier to navigate for students, faculty, staff, and families.

Concord Academy seeks a technically grounded, hands‑on leader who can address immediate operational needs while helping the school prepare for the future. The successful candidate will be comfortable guiding complex projects, leading and developing staff, managing vendor relationships, working with academic leaders, and explaining technical matters clearly to the school community. This person will be an attentive listener and clear communicator who respects CA’s culture of empowering innovation, earns trust, and moves important work forward after thoughtful consultation.

The director of technology will report to the chief financial and operating officer and is expected to begin July 1, 2027, or earlier by mutual agreement.

Classification:
Full-time, Exempt

Annual Salary Range: $170,000–$190,000

• Serve as Concord Academy’s senior technology leader, connecting technology planning with academic, administrative, and institutional priorities.
• Establish clear processes for setting priorities, making decisions, and communicating technology work across the school.
• Develop near- and long-term technology plans in consultation with the CFOO, IT Task Force, and other stakeholders.

• Provide leadership for ongoing systems and data migration efforts, working with project leaders, departmental stakeholders, and external partners to coordinate implementation, integration, adoption, and the retirement of legacy systems.
• Oversee the school’s administrative and academic systems, integrations, data access, reporting, and information sharing.
• Lead or oversee major systems implementations, migrations, integrations, and other school wide technology projects.

• Oversee the longstanding outsourced technology partner, which directly administers Concord Academy’s network, infrastructure, identity and access systems, devices, audiovisual systems, and technology services.
• Maintain policies and practices for cybersecurity, data privacy, access, documentation, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
• Plan for reliable and sustainable technology services, investments, and equipment renewals.
• Ensure responsive…