Chief Data Officer

Job Description

ABOUT THE OFFICE: The Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ) advises the Mayor and First Deputy Mayor on criminal justice policy and is the Mayor’s representative to the courts, district attorneys, defenders, and state criminal justice agencies, among others. The office designs, deploys, and evaluates citywide strategies to drive down crime, reduce unnecessary arrests and incarceration, and improve the system’s fairness. MOCJ works with law enforcement and city agencies, non-profits, foundations, and others to implement data-driven strategies that address current crime conditions, prevent offending, and build the strong neighborhoods that ensure enduring safety.
ABOUT THE ROLE: The Chief Data Officer (CDO) provides executive leadership, strategic direction, and governance oversight for enterprise data management across the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ). Focusing on the intersection of policy, compliance, and data infrastructure development, the CDO is responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive data strategies that enable evidence-based policymaking, operational efficiency, transparency, and equitable criminal justice outcomes across New York City.
This role ensures that MOCJ data infrastructure, governance frameworks, privacy protections, and analytical capabilities support the agency’s mission to reduce crime and incarceration while advancing fairness, accountability, and cross-system coordination.
The CDO works collaboratively with New York City public safety agencies, oversight entities, and internal MOCJ units, including but not limited to, the Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes (OPHC),the Office of Special Enforcement (OSE), and the Assigned Counsel Plan (ACP), to develop secure, scalable, and legally compliant data-sharing frameworks that modernize how New York City's criminal justice stakeholders access, analyze, and apply data.
Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Enterprise Date Strategy & Governance
- Lead the development and execution of MOCJ’s enterprise data strategy, ensuring alignment with agency priorities, City Charter responsibilities, and community and public safety initiatives
- Oversee the full lifecycle of agency data, including collection, integration, storage, analysis, dissemination, and archival
- Establish and implement standardized data governance policies, procedures, and quality assurance protocols across all MOCJ units
- Develop and maintain data management frameworks that promote consistency, transparency, and accountability across agency operations.
- Privacy, Compliance & Legal Oversight
- Establish comprehensive data privacy policies governing data collection, processing, storage, and sharing practices
- Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local data protection laws, regulations, and data sharing agreements
- Partner with MOCJ General Counsel and the City’s Chief Privacy Officer to develop data use cases to ensure compliance with privacy and legal requirements
- Implement safeguards that promote data minimization, purpose limitation, and responsible data stewardship
- Monitor emerging privacy, artificial intelligence, and data governance regulations and integrate best practices into agency frameworks
- Citywide Data Collaboration & Integration
- Develop and maintain interagency data-sharing partnerships with New York City public safety agencies and external stakeholders
- Lead development of citywide memoranda of understanding (MOUs) and data-sharing agreements that support coordinated community safety and criminal justice initiatives
- Advocate for and support the development of a citywide community safety and criminal justice data governance and steering committee
- Promote the development of centralized data warehouses, data lakes, and enterprise analytical tools supporting cross-agency insights and operational coordination
- Apply enterprise architecture principles to modernize data-sharing infrastructure and improve interoperability across community safety and criminal justice stakeholders
- Analytics, Innovation & Policy Advancement
- Oversee advanced analytics initiatives that identify patterns, trends, and system performance indicators to inform policy and operational decision-making
- Translate complex datasets into actionable insights that support fair, equitable, and effective justice outcomes
- Promote responsible and ethical use of algorithmic and predictive analytics tools within the criminal justice ecosystem
- Integrate data-driven insights into agency strategic planning, performance measurement, and program evaluation
- Open Data & Transparency
- Manage MOCJ’s Open Data compliance and public transparency initiatives.
- Ensure data publication processes meet City requirements while maintaining