Chief Financial and Administrative Officer

Established as its own nonprofit organization in 2024, The Clean Slate Initiative (CSI) exists to help the roughly 70–100 million American adults with an arrest or conviction record — nearly one in three adults nationally, and a disproportionate share of Black adults (nearly 50%, compared to 27% of white adults) — move past their records and access employment, housing, education, and economic assistance.

CSI's mission is to pass and implement "Clean Slate" laws that automate record sealing for people who have completed their sentence and remained crime-free, and to expand who is eligible for that relief. Clean Slate legislation remains a rare bipartisan-appeal issue even in a polarized political environment, with wins in both red and blue states.

Operating nationally with a talented 48-person staff, CSI expects continued growth as it seeks to build out its leadership and program capacity. The organization works across a national footprint, with active legislative campaigns and implementation support in states nationwide and a growing regional focus in the South. CSI operates as a multi-entity structure, including a 501(c)(3) and an affiliated 501(c)(4) (Clean Slate Now), each with its own distinct Board of Directors.

At this inflection point for the organization, CSI is expanding its programmatic focus from passing legislation to a more expansive, multi-front strategy that includes implementation and notification, narrative change, and regional groundwork with a focus on Southern states.

The organization’s growth trajectory is being guided by a new five-year strategic plan (July 2026-December 2031), which sets ambitious goals including the passage of full Clean Slate legislation in 24 states plus DC and ensuring eligibility for automated sealing for 24 million people. To support these goals, an organizational restructuring, made effective in August of 2026, has consolidated departments, redefined the role of the CEO, created a new President position, and added new senior leadership positions to the team.

The projected growth and ambitions outlined in CSI’s new strategic plan require an internal realignment to match them. As part of this evolution, the organization’s talent & culture, operations, and finance functions are being brought together within a single department, headed by a new Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (CFAO). As CSI’s first CFAO, this leader will create an integrated strategy across finance, grants administration, talent and culture, and operations, ensuring these functions work together seamlessly to support CSI’s mission and growth.

As CSI scales, the CFAO will bring greater structure, visibility, and integration to the organization’s internal infrastructure. They will build modern financial and organizational systems that give staff and board members real-time visibility into CSI’s financial position and $20 million annual budget, while also bringing rigor to an organization growing rapidly on the strength of recent gifts of $75 million and $55 million, roughly 35% of which is deployed directly to the field through grantmaking.

Reporting to the President and serving as a peer to the Chief Program Officer, the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Development Officer, the CFAO will have four direct reports and an overall team of seven employees.

More broadly, the CFAO will serve as a strategic steward of the systems, culture, and infrastructure that will enable CSI to grow well. They will provide leadership across financial systems and organizational operations, ensuring these pieces work together as a cohesive whole; help shape a vision for grantmaking that balances compliance and flexibility; steward culture and…