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Job Description:

• Manages the day-to-day execution of the Internal Audit, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), and compliance programs.
• Serves as a proxy, as needed, for the Assistant Vice President to attend and lead meetings and develop relationships with stakeholders. Provides guidance to key stakeholders regarding ERM and compliance execution.
• Continues to evolve and refine ERM and Compliance methodology and process, including ERM and compliance program documentation, tools, and templates.
• Operationalizes the ERM and compliance processes and functions and applies standard processes, methodologies, tools and templates to identify, assess, analyze, and prioritize enterprise risks.
• Manages Integrated ERM and Compliance Committee meetings by scheduling meetings, providing logistical support, developing agendas, preparing minutes, and providing materials to support discussions.
• Maintains a current understanding of regulatory trends and changes in compliance and regulatory guidelines that affect the University by monitoring various resources to assess regulatory changes and determine organizational impact and risk; creates and refines tools to monitor risks and compliance obligations. Partners with stakeholders to ensure that regulatory changes are appropriately accounted for in the compliance program design.
• Designs and deploys programs for monitoring compliance and risk in various areas in a decentralized operating environment.
• Convenes and coordinates working groups for focused analysis and development of risk management/remediation plans.
• Conducts follow-up procedures to assess remediation of any issues identified; assists in the development of remediation action plans.
• Provides policy and training guidance to individuals and departments including commenting on and drafting policies and training materials.
• Designs dashboards, presentations, reporting templates, data-driven heat maps, written reports, or other deliverables to be presented to senior leadership and the Audit Committee; identifies and analyzes data in support of the same.
• Manages Internal Audit activities including work plan development, planning activities, scope memo review, and draft report review.
• Manages the Compliance Hotline and compliance inquiries received through other channels, including ensuring appropriate follow-up to issues.
• Promotes the identity and services of the ERM, Compliance, and Internal Audit functions.
• Guides the implementation of compliance activities designated by the University's strategic plans. Monitors University compliance with regulations and laws.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

Education:

• JD, MBA or similar degree.

Certifications:

• CCEP

Preferred Competencies

• Recognize risk issues in complex environment.
• Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Project management experience.
• Mathematical and analytical ability.
• General understanding of higher education regulatory environment.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm and motivation, with the capacity to learn to build on skills.
• Maintain confidential information.
• Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships and work with various levels of leadership within the organization.

Application Documents

• Resume/CV (required)
• Cover Letter (preferred)
• References Contact Information (3) (preferred)

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