NSUFA432 - Chief Compliance Officer

Virginia Information Technologies Agency • Norfolk, VA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The University invites highly qualified candidates for the role of Chief Compliance Officer. This role reports directly to the University President and the University’s Board of Visitors through the Audit, Risk, and Compliance Committee. The successful candidate will be charged with maintaining a robust centralized university-wide compliance model program.

Requirements

• Demonstrated strong ability to develop and implement compliance strategy across a complex organization with significant distributed components, translating legal, regulatory, and policy requirements and guidelines into effective leadership communication, operating practices, and institutional processes.
• Superior skills in the areas of communication, relationship-building, collaboration, and problem-solving. Strong ability to communicate at a Board and executive level, and collaborate with executive and operational management.
• Knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, standards and principles governing public institutions of higher education. Knowledge of conflict of interest requirements, including federal research requirements. Familiarity with Virginia requirements are highly preferred.
• Ability to maintain a high degree of sensitivity and exercise discretion on confidential matters.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical matters, both verbally and in writing, to end-users who have varied levels of understanding of subject matters.
• Demonstrated ability to perform risk assessments and develop comprehensive Compliance plans.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, set priorities, and manage multiple competing deadlines of internal/external programs simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise, direct, train, and evaluate the activities of staff.
• Demonstrated ability to create and implement educational programs related to compliance.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, and convey matters to large diverse audiences (students/faculty/staff).
• Demonstrated ability to manage vertically within a highly complex organization with significant competing priorities and stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Virginia requirements are highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership, supervision, and the execution of a high quality, coordinated, risk-based institutional compliance program that provides effective oversight of the distributed processes that support compliance throughout the university.
• Plan, facilitate, execute, and oversee regular assessments of compliance risks, ensuring management ownership for monitoring and managing compliance risks.
• Establish, manage, and maintain a current inventory of compliance obligations (relevant laws, regulations, rules, and authoritative guidance, among other requirements). Ensure complete, accurate, and current ongoing processes are implemented.
• Establish, manage, and maintain a current assessment of the risks associated with the inventory of compliance obligations that considers, among other things, likelihood, impact, and intensity.
• Plan, facilitate, execute, and oversee regular assessments of compliance risks.
• Based on assessments of compliance risks, ensure executive and operating management has been assigned ownership for risk-based distributed compliance programs to appropriately monitor and manage such risks.
• Develop risk owner talent and expertise through communications and training systems related to effective, mature risk-based distributed compliance programs.
• Provide proactive advice and insight to the President and senior university leaders related to potential compliance risks.
• Communicate to the President and the Audit, Risk, and Compliance Committee: (1) the adequacy and effectiveness of the university's institutional compliance program and distributed compliance programs; and (II) significant compliance risks or exposures and the steps management has taken to monitor and manage such risks.
• Lead, supervise, and execute institutional processes to ensure that potential conflicts of interest are identified, evaluated, and, where needed, mitigated. Oversee execution of plans established by management to mitigate conflicts of interest and ensure adequate reporting to executive management.
• Develop programs and coordinate the implementation and execution of special projects assigned by the President or Board of Visitors.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees