Director, School Compliance

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The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:
 

Grade: Management_Executive 607

Pay Range: $91,800.00 - $151,400.00

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Oversee a team of analysts and advisors—providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the effective execution of compliance activities. This position is responsible for hiring, training, evaluating, and developing staff to support the school’s compliance team.
• Consults with school leadership, participates in relevant programmatic meetings, and engages with the program lifecycle process on major and minor curriculum changes, substantive change reports, and other changes that may affect compliance with accreditation or approval agencies.
• Serve as the key subject matter expert to liaise with external regulatory agencies, helping them understand and accept the practice, approach, or novel concept suggested.
• Keep informed of changes to national, state, and professional regulations and standards to support accreditation and compliance activities for each program offered within the school.
• Ensure the development of reports and self-studies needed to obtain and maintain programmatic approval.
• Provide decision support on policy issues and matters related to compliance and institutional risk management.
• Develop and implement long-term strategic plans for all compliance efforts in the school.
• Advise internal departments on operational and regulatory requirements for faculty within the assigned discipline.
• Remain knowledgeable of the legal structure (multi-national, federal, state, and local laws and regulations) and trends within the school’s programmatic verticals.
• Source methods of working with approval bodies to lower each school’s regulatory burden, raise the level of trust in that field, and ensure students’/graduates’ abilities to obtain their respective license/certificate to practice.

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

• Technological competence with MS Office suite (Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and Office 360).
• Superb communication skills as evidenced by a record of publications, presentations, and peer reviews. Interpersonal relationship skills (social-emotional intelligence) of confidence, focus, ethics, and accountability as demonstrated by checks with multiple layers of references.

Competencies: 

Organizational Impact: 

• Develops and recommends plan to accomplish division or job area responsibilities that align with the department.
• Performance affects department results. Work requires extensive knowledge of the University to recognize impact of decisions.
• Responsible for compiling data to produce a budget or a portion of a budget for a department or job area.

Problem Solving & Decision Making: 

• Responsible for making significant improvements to processes, programs, and systems to enhance the outcomes of the division or job area.
• May create and direct policy decisions within scope of responsibility. Accountable for coordinating activities and maintaining relationships with external parties as needed.
• Problems faced are numerous and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis, and prior experience. Solutions to problems typically affect multiple departments.

Communication & Influence: 

• Represents the division or job area as the primary internal contact for operations.
• Influences others to accept the divis