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Compliance

The Compliance Manager leads and advances institutional compliance programs by ensuring adherence to applicable federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and University policies; is responsible for fostering a culture of ethics, integrity, accountability, and risk awareness across the University community; provides strategic direction, oversight, and operational leadership for compliance initiatives, including program development, audits, investigations, policy management, training, and regulatory monitoring; partners with leadership and key stakeholders to embed effective compliance practices into academic, administrative, and operational functions, while proactively identifying and mitigating institutional risk.

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of comprehensive University compliance programs
• Establish strategic priorities, goals, and performance metrics for institutional compliance efforts
• Develop, update, and implement compliance policies, procedures, protocols, programs, preventative measures, and internal controls
• Ensure alignment of compliance initiatives with applicable laws, regulations, and higher education best practices
• Promote a proactive, risk-aware culture aligned with institutional values and ethical standards
• Serve as a subject-matter expert on compliance-related matters, providing guidance to leadership and University stakeholders
• Foster collaborative relationships with campus partners (e.g., General Counsel, Human Resources, Finance, Student Affairs, academic and administrative units)
• Ensure trustees, executives, administrators, faculty, staff, and students are informed of and understand compliance obligations, ethical standards, and institutional policies
• Translate complex regulatory requirements into clear, actionable guidance for diverse audiences
• Facilitate communication regarding compliance responsibilities, expectations, and risk mitigation strategies
• Direct, manage, and oversee compliance risk identification, assessments, and monitoring activities
• Plan and lead annual, periodic, and targeted internal audits across functional areas
• Oversee external audit preparation, pre-inspections, and regulatory reviews
• Ensure audit findings are accurate, justified, and reported appropriately to relevant stakeholders
• Identify compliance risks, gaps, and control weaknesses; develop and implement mitigation strategies
• Oversee and conduct investigations into allegations of non-compliance or misconduct; ensure timely, thorough, and objective review of compliance concerns and reports
• Direct the development and implementation of corrective action and remediation plans; monitor remediation efforts to ensure effectiveness and sustained compliance
• Develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive compliance education and training programs
• Ensure tracking and reporting of required training participation and completion
• Stay current on evolving statutory and regulatory requirements impacting higher education

Level:

– Senior Manager

Base Description:

– Manages direct reports where primary duty is the management of a working unit.

Level Summary:

– Demonstrates advanced skills in critical functions related to unit's success. Demonstrates advanced knowledge of emerging technologies and processes. Monitors completed work of others to ensure effectiveness and adherence to requirements. Sets clear expectations and holds team accountable. Establishes a shared team/unit vision. Demonstrates ability to evaluate and enhance team/unit practices that promote a strong commitment to inclusionary practices. Coaches others using appropriate strategies. Demonstrates diplomacy. Demonstrates ability to serve as liaison between senior-level management and staff. Resolves complex, controversial, or unprecedented issues and problems.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

– Oversees large team or teams of individual contributors and/or supervisors/managers
– Leads a department or functional area

Fiscal Responsibilities:

– Monitors and tracks large budgets
– Plans, forecasts, and/or develops budgets
– May approve budgets for specific area
– Typically has final signature authority for specific area

Problem Solving:

– Encounters highly varied and complex problems that impacts the team and possibly the unit
– Develops creative and/or novel approaches to resolve problems that are difficult in nature
– Independently resolves complex and/or unprecedented issues and problems

Independence of Action:

– Work results are not clearly defined
– Generally sets own goals and determines how to accomplish results with few or no guidelines to follow
– Monitors completed work of others to ensure soundness of approach, effectiveness of meeting requirements, the feasibility of recommendations and adherences to requirements
– Delegates more advanced tasks to others

Communication and Collaboration:

– Communicates with both internal and external audiences
– Collaborates closely with team members and various areas across the University
– Fosters collaboration between units and engages others' coordinated efforts to reach desired outcomes with broad scope

• Comp Grade – 15
• Minimum – $109,300.00
• MidPoint – $136,600.00
• Maximum – $164,000.00

• Audit Management
• Audit planning
• Auditing
• Consulting
• Investigation
• Negotiation
• Policy analysis
• Presentation Skills
• Project planning
• Regulatory compliance
• Report writing