Director of Information Technology

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $128k - $140k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Project On Government Oversight

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1981

🤝 Non-profit

🏛️ Government

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Government • Social Impact

Project On Government Oversight is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting accountability and effectiveness within the federal government. It investigates corruption, injustice, and abuse of power within government institutions, advocating for commonsense reforms to strengthen democracy and promote transparency. POGO engages in civic advocacy, public policy analysis, and congressional oversight to ensure a government that serves all people fairly. The organization focuses on key issues including accountability, checks and balances, civil and human rights, corruption, abuse of power, and national security.

📋 Description

• Set POGO’s multi-year technology strategy and roadmap in alignment with the strategic plan • Translate the technology roadmap into annual priorities, investments, and measurable outcomes • Advise executive leadership on technology posture, tradeoffs, costs, compliance obligations, and organizational capacity • Own the cybersecurity program, including risk posture, security roadmap, virtual CISO engagement, risk assessment, penetration testing, cyber insurance readiness, and executive risk reporting • Author and maintain technology, data governance, cybersecurity, and acceptable use policies • Lead policy adoption across the organization with Legal and Human Resources • Define compliance posture for data protection and privacy, accessibility, PCI DSS, and related obligations • Advise internally on technology-related legal and regulatory questions in partnership with Legal • Identify and deliver technology solutions supporting investigative, policy, and advocacy work • Scope, source, or build data collection, pipeline, automation, and analysis tooling with program leadership • Set the organizational framework for information architecture, records, and data management • Lead cross-departmental adoption of technology standards • Supervise and develop the IT team • Set IT priorities and service standards • Ensure IT team capacity, skills, and succession depth meet organizational needs • Report directly to the Vice President of Finance and Administration

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of progressive IT experience • At least 3 years in a leadership role with responsibility for technology strategy, budget, and staff • Experience in a nonprofit, law firm, or other organization with comparable sensitivity around data preferred • Experience setting and executing technology strategy aligned to organizational goals • Experience presenting options and recommendations to executive leadership • Experience owning a cybersecurity program, including risk assessment, policy development, incident response planning, and directing external security advisors • Experience with technology governance and compliance, including data protection and privacy, PCI, and accessibility obligations • Experience working in partnership with legal counsel • Experience owning a technology budget, leading vendor selection and contract negotiation, and making build, buy, and sourcing decisions • Strong working knowledge of modern cloud-first enterprise environments, including Microsoft 365 and Entra • Experience supervising and developing technical staff • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including translating technical matters for non-technical executives and staff and building consensus across departments • Commitment to creating, maintaining, and fostering an inclusive work environment • Commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion • Legal, compliance, or privacy background or credential (e.g., CIPP), or experience serving as a technology advisor to legal teams preferred but not required • Experience delivering technology solutions that increase program impact in research, policy, advocacy, or investigative settings preferred but not required • Resume required • Availability during POGO’s work hours of 9AM–6PM Eastern Time

🏖️ Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance • 403(b) employee investment plan available, with employer retirement contribution once eligible • Life insurance • Short-term and long-term disability coverage • Paid holiday, vacation, and sick leave • Remote work from anywhere within the United States • Competitive nonprofit salary