Job Description

Chief Compliance Officer

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.

Minimum Qualifications:

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.

Additional Considerations:

Additionally, the incumbent's duties and responsibilities shall encompass the following: 1. 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. 2. Plan, facilitate, execute, and oversee regular assessments of compliance risks, ensuring management ownership for monitoring and managing compliance risks. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. Plan, facilitate, execute, and oversee regular assessments of compliance risks. 6. 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. 7. Develop risk owner talent and expertise through communications and training systems related to effective, mature risk-based distributed compliance programs. 8. Provide proactive advice and insight to the President and senior university leaders related to potential compliance risks. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. Develop programs and coordinate the implementation and execution of special projects assigned by the President or Board of Visitors.

Special Instructions:

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or rsum is submitted successfully. Please refer to "Your Application" in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

In support of the Commonwealth's commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.

Each agency within the Commonwealth of Virginia is dedicated to recruiting, supporting, and maintaining a competent and diverse work force. Equal Opportunity Employer.

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