As the International Transactional Analysis Association (ITAA) expands its global reach, our digital ecosystem has become vital to supporting our community's daily operations. To guide this infrastructure with strategic vision and robust governance, the association has established a dedicated IT committee.

I’m writing because we have one or two seats open, and we’d like to fill them with members who have done this kind of work professionally.

What the committee does

The IT committee owns the policies and guidelines that govern the association's IT architecture and infrastructure. In practical terms, that covers five domains: technology architecture, infrastructure and capacity, cybersecurity, data protection and privacy, and electronic communications and platforms.

The work is governance, not hands-on delivery. The committee writes policy, reviews proposals, signs off on vendors, oversees the response to incidents and reports to the board. Delivery is contracted to external IT vendors as required.

To make the work concrete: The committee’s current agenda includes setting the association's data protection policy and producing the IT Procedural Manual. These are not small documents — they will define how the organization treats its members’ information for the foreseeable future. We are also running a pilot to bring all our IT systems, which currently sit in silos, under one umbrella.

Who I’m hoping to hear from

Members with working knowledge in one or two of the following — not all of them. One or two strong areas is plenty:

• Cybersecurity and risk management: Able to read a security policy and point out where the gaps are.
• Data protection and privacy: Practical familiarity with GDPR, what a Record of Processing Activities looks like and what a Data Protection Impact Assessment is for.
• Web platforms, hosting, DNS and certificates: Enough to hold a sensible conversation with our website vendor about uptime, performance and security.
• Identity and access management: The difference between a personal account and a service account, how to handle privileged access and what good two-factor adoption looks like.

If you have built or run any of this in your professional life — in a corporation, a university, a small business, a nonprofit or your own consultancy — you’ll recognize the work. What we need from you is your judgment more than your hours.

What we’re asking of you

This is a voluntary role. The committee meets monthly to begin with, with additional meetings called when something needs attention — a new system going live, a vendor under review, or an incident in progress. The term is three years, renewable, and the work is almost entirely remote.

A realistic estimate of the time commitment is four to six hours per quarter in a steady state, and 10 to 15 hours during active policy-drafting cycles. Reading happens between meetings.

One practical note: Members sign a short confidentiality undertaking, since the committee sees vendor contracts, incident details and, at times, member data.

Why this matters

Members trust the association with their data. That trust is not abstract — it shows up in concrete decisions about who can see the directory, how long we keep records, what we say in our privacy notice, which third parties we share information with and how we respond when something goes wrong.

Right now, siloed IT systems across the organization's committees put us at risk. The IT committee exists to make these decisions deliberately rather than by default — and the strength of its decisions will depend on the strength of the people around the table.

How to come forward

One or two experienced members — that’s what we need. If you’ve been waiting for a way to contribute to the association that uses what you already know, this is it.

Send me a paragraph at it-committee@itaaworld.com by July 15, 2026. Tell me what you do, what you bring and which part of the work you’d find interesting. It doesn’t need to be a formal application, and I’ll reply to everyone who writes in.

The chair and the director of operations will then meet you online and ask for references, before recommending appointments to the board in line with the Guidelines and Procedures Manual. Once ratified, we’ll introduce you to Huntington Association Management, which manages IT operations for the organization.

I’d be delighted to hear from you. I believe this is a great way to get involved in the organization, to work with people across the globe and to help shape the future of the association.