Chief Compliance & Legal Officer

Diversified Treatment Alternative Centers•Armstrong Township, PA

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Diversified Treatment Alternative Centers (DTAC) is seeking a Chief Compliance & Legal Officer (CCLO) to serve as the organization’s Privacy Officer and executive leader for compliance, quality assurance, legal affairs, risk management, and regulatory oversight. The role provides leadership across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, and future expansion markets, ensuring adherence to applicable federal, state, local, payer, accreditation, contractual, and legal requirements while fostering ethics, accountability, safety, quality, and continuous improvement. The CCLO oversees enterprise-wide compliance, quality assurance, legal affairs, privacy, accreditation readiness, investigations, risk management, and regulatory oversight. The position advises executive leadership and the Board on legal, compliance, governance, operational risk, and strategic growth matters, and develops systems that support sustainable growth and operational excellence. The role partners with executive leadership, operational and clinical teams, Human Resources, finance, and external legal counsel across DTAC’s service lines. This is a full-time hybrid regional executive leadership position. Candidates may be based in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, or Columbus, Ohio, and must travel regularly and be onsite across both regions. Significant onsite engagement is expected during the first 90 days.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business, Law, Healthcare Management, Public Health, Human Services, or a related field.
Minimum of 5 years of progressive leadership experience in compliance, legal affairs, risk management, quality, regulatory oversight, or healthcare operations.
Experience in healthcare, behavioral health, residential treatment, managed care, or a related regulated healthcare environment.
Demonstrated experience conducting audits, investigations, compliance reviews, and corrective action processes.
Demonstrated experience with Medicaid compliance, payer audits, program integrity activities, regulatory investigations, and compliance monitoring programs.
Experience advising executive leadership on compliance, legal, risk, governance, or regulatory matters.
Experience presenting to executive leadership and/or Boards of Directors.
Ability and willingness to travel regularly throughout Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Nice To Haves

JD, MHA, MBA, MPH, or another relevant advanced degree.
Active license to practice law.
Experience supporting behavioral health, residential treatment, substance use disorder treatment, child/adolescent services, managed care, or community behavioral health programs.
Previous experience as a Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, Chief Risk Officer, or Vice President of Compliance.
Experience supporting acquisitions, due diligence, integrations, and strategic growth initiatives.

Responsibilities

Lead compliance efforts across operating regions and ensure adherence to federal, state, payer, and regulatory requirements.
Maintain readiness for licensing reviews, audits, accreditation surveys, and regulatory inspections.
Conduct internal audits and compliance reviews, and develop and oversee corrective action plans and compliance initiatives.
Keep policies and procedures current, compliant, and operationally effective.
Oversee enterprise-wide risk management programs and monitor incident reporting, trends, investigations, and mitigation efforts.
Lead quality assurance and continuous improvement initiatives; analyze compliance, quality, and outcome data for executive leadership.
Promote standardized compliance and quality practices across locations.
Investigate compliance concerns, complaints, ethics matters, and potential regulatory violations; document findings and oversee corrective actions and follow-up.
Serve as a confidential resource for employees raising compliance or ethical concerns.
Advise executive leadership and the Board on legal, compliance, governance, organizational risk, and liability exposure.
Review and negotiate contracts, vendor agreements, partnership agreements, business associate agreements, and other legal documents.
Support mergers, acquisitions, affiliations, due diligence, and organizational growth initiatives.
Partner with Human Resources on employment-related legal matters, workplace investigations, onboarding, training, and employee development.
Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting behavioral health and healthcare operations.
Coordinate with external legal counsel on litigation, investigations, licensing matters, and regulatory inquiries.
Develop and oversee compliance education programs and provide ongoing regulatory guidance to leaders and employees.
Maintain and oversee DTAC’s Compliance Program and Compliance Manual.
Collaborate with executive leadership, operations, clinical teams, Human Resources, finance, and legal partners.
Participate in strategic planning, program development, acquisition activities, and compliance and legal readiness for expansion, licensing, and operational growth.