Vice President, Technology

THE ORGANIZATION

The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community safety and racial justice. Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside communities, courts, and those most directly affected by the justice system to build stronger, healthier, and more equitable neighborhoods. With a team of over 900 staff and an annual budget of $130 million, the Center carries out its mission through three core strategies:

Backed by decades of on-the-ground experience and nationally recognized expertise, we bring innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to justice systems nationwide. Learn more about our work ovatingjustice.org.

The Center seeks a mission-driven Vice President, Technology to lead a comprehensive assessment and redesign of the organization’s technology, data, and information systems. This leader will be responsible for shaping a forward-looking vision and roadmap for technology transformation while ensuring strong day-to-day operations.

The Vice President, Technology will serve as both strategist and operator—conducting a top-to-bottom evaluation of the current technology function, guiding immediate projects and staff, and setting the foundation for a permanent technology, information, and data leadership model.

This role is ideal for a proven CIO or senior executive who combines operational oversight with the mindset of a business leader, change agent, talent scout, culture builder, and tech translator. Thinking like a business leader, this candidate will link technology decisions directly to mission and organizational growth. As a change agent, they will drive transformation through shared goals accountability. As a talent scout, this leader will identify skill gaps in our existing team and organizational structure and develop existing team members and creating a road map for new hires.

This person will be a culture revolutionary, creating an environment that values and empowers technology professionals to be leaders throughout the organization. As a tech translator, the candidate will make the business implications of technology clear to non-technical leaders.

• Lead a full organizational assessment of systems, infrastructure, staffing, vendor ecosystem, and service delivery.
• Engage with leaders across departments to understand business needs, challenges, and pain points.
• Identify technology gaps, redundancies, risks, and opportunities for innovation.
• Define and articulate a multi-year roadmap for technology and data transformation aligned with organizational mission and growth.
• Work with Data Analytics and Applied Research team to assess opportunities for developing deeper operations collaboration.

• Collaborate to establish or strengthen governance frameworks for service delivery, vendor management, budgeting, and compliance.
• Review and update core policies, including cybersecurity, AI, acceptable use, and disaster recovery/business continuity.
• Introduce performance metrics and reporting mechanisms to measure IT and data impact.
• Develop systems that support the work of the Center’s programs, practices, and expert assistance teams.
• Establish and enforce secure development lifecycle standards for all in-house and vendor-developed software.
• Ensure that the Center and Technology department operate in accordance with the Center’s policies, current legal and regulatory guidance, and the Center’s values of integrity, impact, equity, and collaboration.

• Evaluate the viability of managed service provider (MSP) models for infrastructure and support services.
• Oversee vendor management, procurement, and contracting processes, ensuring cost-effectiveness and accountability.
• Provide recommendations on in sourcing vs. outsourcing for infrastructure, support, and product development.