Compliance Specialist

This position will serve as a supporting role for the organization’s compliance and risk effort in addition to serving as a system administrator for the compliance and risk databases, perform regulatory research, and provide assistance and management of organizational policies. This position will coordinate department projects and provide administrative support to Risk and the Compliance Officer and team members.

 

Position: Compliance Specialist

Hourly Wage: $20.00 and hour, depending on experience

Service Area: Remote

Schedule: PRN hours between Monday – Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm

 

Lifespark Benefits Include:   

• Annual Reviews/Raises {Shift differentials if applicable} 
• Paid Time Off – Vacation Time 
• Mileage reimbursement
• Medical, Dental, Vision benefits for Full Time Hires 
• Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance 
• Life Insurances 
• 401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees 
• Referral bonuses 
• Career path to other positions within our growing company! 

 

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we’ve been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That’s where our people come in – from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

 

Position Functions & Responsibilities:

• Manage/administer Compliance software.
• Assist with the policy & procedure process: create processes, and ensure policies and procedures are updated annually and approved appropriately. May assist with updating of policies and policy/process writing.
• Create and own a process to review, disseminate and track regulatory updates. This would include enlisting in all appropriate list serves, while the Compliance Officer could complete any proactive searches.
• Review OIG/GSA monthly exclusions process to determine best practice, any gaps, etc.
• Manage and track annual trainings across the company to ensure all required training is completed. Manage downstream entity training attestation tracking.
• Manage annual Conflict of Interest attestations.
• Manage the Compliance hotline and email box. Create and follow a written process for management of these communication and reporting tools.
• Assist in the Risk Assessment process from a Compliance standpoint. Be the scribe in all meetings.
• Record minutes for Compliance Committee and Governing Body, distribute, retain, and follow-up on action items.
• Assist Risk Management in administrative tasks.
• Other duties as assigned

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, OR
• Three (3) + years’ experience in the compliance field.
• Prefer prior experience working in the compliance/regulatory department of a healthcare organization.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Must be proficient with MS Office applications including Word, Excel, and Power Point.
• Creative problem solving and critical thinking.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
• Must be self-directed and able to prioritize multiple projects at once.
• Ability to read and interpret regulatory statutes and skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to condense complex audit information to targeted audiences.
• Ability to influence without authority

 

 

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace — earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare — but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark’s full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South – this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you – let’s get you hired.

 

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service,