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Compliance

Compliance Managers ensure the University functions in compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and policies; organize and direct compliance audits; direct, manage, and conduct compliance risk identification, inspection, and reporting; develop and implement preventative measures and internal controls.

• Develop, update, and implement compliance policies, procedures, protocols, programs, preventative measures, and internal controls
• Foster relationships with campus constituents; promote a compliance culture; facilitate communication regarding personnel duties and obligations mandated by law and policy
• Direct, manage, and oversee internal audits, external audit pre-inspections, and audits responding to non-compliance reports
• Ensure audit findings are reasonable, justified, appropriate, and reported as required; as applicable, provide remediation and corrective action instruction; ensure implementation and monitoring; maintain documentation
• Develop, implement, evaluate, and oversee compliance education and training programs
• Keep abreast of statutory and regulatory compliance requirement changes; disseminate information to relevant parties
• Review proposed legislation and regulations; respond to appropriate agencies and accreditation entities
• Hire, train, coach, supervise, schedule, and evaluate employees; promote professional development

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