Chief Technology Officer

The News Literacy Project

Chief Technology Officer

Full time
• Virtual (U.S.)
• Reports to the President and CEO

The News Literacy Project, founded in 2008, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization building a national movement to ensure that all students are guaranteed to be skilled in news literacy before high school graduation, giving them the knowledge and ability to participate in civic society as well-informed, critical thinkers. NLP is the country's leading provider of news literacy education and works with districts and educators in all 50 states, primarily through our signature e-learning platform, Checkology®, and weekly educator newsletter, The Sift®.

To read more about the organization and our plans, visit our website [https://newslit.org/].

The News Literacy Project empowers educators to teach middle and high school students how to sort fact from fiction in the digital age. We are at an exciting inflection point for our work, and we are making critical investments to rapidly scale our growth and impact. To that end, we are seeking the organization's first Chief Technology Officer to lead technology and product functions under NLP’s strategic vision as we scale Checkology's reach nationwide.

This is a great opportunity for you to shape the technology foundation of a national movement and directly expand access to news literacy education for hundreds of thousands of students. We're looking for someone who can have an immediate and meaningful impact on our work.

This position reports to the President and CEO.

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) serves as the organization's senior technology leader, responsible for technology vision, platform delivery, digital innovation, operational reliability and technology governance across the organization. The CTO ensures technology investments advance mission impact, support sustainable growth and meet the security, privacy and compliance expectations of K-12 school districts and institutional partners.

The CTO serves as a member of the Executive Team and partners closely with the CEO, COO and functional leaders to translate strategy into technology priorities and measurable outcomes.

Specifically, in this job, you will:

• Develop and execute a multi-year technology strategy aligned with organizational and programmatic and product priorities.
• Establish technology principles, governance processes and investment priorities across product and enterprise systems, including annual roadmaps and technology operating and capital budgets tied to organizational outcomes.
• Advise executive leadership and the Board on technology opportunities, risks,infrastructure and digital transformation.
• Chair the internal AI Committee,setting the organization's AI vision, enablement strategy and governing policies.
• Ensure technology governance processes account for and support the organization's data strategy, in partnership with data leadership.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and determine where innovation meaningfully advances mission and user value.

• Oversee the Product team through its senior leader, ensuring strong product strategy, roadmaps and execution.
• In collaboration with the VP of Product, align architecture, platform investments, and engineering capacity to enable the product roadmap.
• Balance innovation, user needs, technical feasibility and organizational capacity across all digital offerings.

• Establish organization-wide cybersecurity strategy and risk management practices, including incident response planning, business continuity and disaster recovery.
• Own technology compliance requirements associated with serving K-12 school…