NSUFA432 - Chief Compliance Officer

Job Duties 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 acomplex 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, andproblem-solving. Strong ability to communicate at a Board and executive level, andcollaborate with executive and operational management.Knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, standards and principlesgoverning public institutions of higher education. Knowledge of conflict of interestrequirements, including federal research requirements. Familiarity with Virginiarequirements are highly preferred.Ability to maintain a high degree of sensitivity and exercise discretion on confidentialmatters.Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical matters, both verbally and inwriting, to end-users who have varied levels of understanding of subject matters.Demonstrated ability to perform risk assessments and develop comprehensiveCompliance plans.Demonstrated ability to organize, set priorities, and manage multiple competingdeadlines 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 tocompliance.Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, andconvey matters to large diverse audiences (students/faculty/staff).Demonstrated ability to manage vertically within a highly complex organization withsignificant 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 highquality, coordinated, risk-based institutional compliance program that provides effectiveoversight 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 otherrequirements). Ensure complete, accurate, and current ongoing processes areimplemented.4, Establish, manage, and maintain a current assessment of the risks associated withthe 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 operatingmanagement has been assigned ownership for risk-based distributed complianceprograms to appropriately monitor and manage such risks.7. Develop risk owner talent and expertise through communications and trainingsystems related to effective, mature risk-based distributed compliance programs.8. Provide proactive advice and insight to the President and senior university leadersrelated 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 anddistributed compliance programs; and (II) significant compliance risks or exposures andthe steps management has taken to monitor and manage such risks.10. Lead, supervise, and execute institutional processes to ensure that potential conflictsof interest are identified, evaluated, and, where needed, mitigated. Oversee execution ofplans established by management to mitigate conflicts of interest and ensure adequatereporting to executive management.11. Develop programs and coordinate the implementation and execution of specialprojects assigned by the President or Board of Visitors. Special Instructions You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or résumé is submitted successfully. Please refer to “Your Application” in your account to check the status of your application for this position. Contact Information Name: Human Resources Phone: 757-823-8160 Email: Email material not accepted 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.