Risk Management Specialist (Remote Option)

Partners Behavioral Health Management•Gastonia, NC

2h•Remote

About The Position

This position’s primary responsibility is to support enterprise risk management, compliance, and audit readiness efforts by identifying, assessing, monitoring, and reporting operational, financial, regulatory, and strategic risks. In addition, this position will further support the Risk Management program by developing, maintaining, organizing, and governing the organization’s policies and procedures, as well as program descriptions and/or plans. This position plays a key role in supporting internal and external audits, managing audit related risks, and ensuring timely remediation of audit findings/corrective action plans

Requirements

Effective negotiation & consensus building skills
Knowledgeable of auditing practices and investigative report writing
An elevated level of professionalism, integrity, and trust
Working knowledge and understanding of hardware and software applications applicable to this organization and/or ability to quickly learn
Proficient interpersonal and communication skills (both orally and in written form)
Effective project management skills.
Ability to take complex information and synthesize into user friendly, concise, and meaningful reports for various audiences
Knowledge of Enterprise Risk Management framework, policy/procedure management and/or process improvement methodologies
Strong analytical, documentation and issue tracking skills
Knowledge of auditing practices
Ability to manage multiple deliverables and timelines
Proficient in MS Office platforms
Bachelor’s degree.
At least three (3) years of experience in Regulatory Compliance, internal and external audit work experience, risk management and/or policy and procedure management.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in healthcare administration, Compliance, Public Health or another related field.
Certified in project management, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) or other applicable compliance certifications ) preferred or willingness to attain.

Responsibilities

Coordinates the revision, vetting and approval by management, leadership and the Board.
Oversees the revision and creation of Policies & Procedures by Partners’ staff to ensure policies align with regulatory, accreditation, contractual, and organizational standards. This can also include Program Descriptions, and Plans.
Publishes policies in centralized systems or repositories.
Maintains standardized templates, formatting, and naming conventions.
Supports policy attestation and acknowledgment processes.
Tracks version control, effective dates, and approval history.
Manages the policy lifecycle from drafting through approval, publication, review and archival.
Facilitates governance committees/workgroups and/or approval bodies for policy review.
Enforces review cycles and triggers reminders for business owners.
Maintains policy inventory, master policy index, review schedules, and approval schedules.
Supports internal and external audits by providing policy documentation and evidence of governance controls.
Identifies gaps, conflicts, or outdated policies and drives remediation efforts.
Assists with training materials and guidance related to policy implementation.
Generates reports on policy status, review cycles, and compliance metrics.
Supports internal and external audits
Identifies audit related risks and control weaknesses/opportunities across departments
Coordinates collection, validation and submission of audit evidence and documentation
Tracks internal and external audit findings and supports prioritization of remediation efforts
Performs root cause analysis for audit issues and supports sustainable mitigation strategies
Supports audit readiness activities and ongoing control monitoring
Supports vendor and subcontractor audit related risks.
Identifies and assesses enterprise, operational, compliance, internal audit, and external audit risks
Creates and manages various process flows mapping and related diagrams as well as tools and resources for Risk Management program
Conducts routine and focused staff training related to risk management
Supports enterprise risk assessments, control assessments, and gap analyses
Maintains risk registers, audit risk logs, and risk scoring methodologies
Identifies emerging risks related to audit findings, regulatory changes, and operational processes
Prepares risk reports, dashboards and summaries for leadership and committees
Performs Other Duties as Assigned