Senior Director, EDR Enterprise Risk Management & Compliance

The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.

Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.

You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

Summary of Role

Primary responsibility will be to help us execute our strategic plan by growing our business and providing executive level consulting services to our clients.

Will be expected to use deep industry knowledge and expertise to deliver and expand results-oriented risk management and compliance services across a variety of institutions, with primary focus in higher education.

Depth and background in the higher education risk management and/or compliance industry, with preference for experience in professional services. Oversee a portfolio of enterprise risk management and compliance engagements and be responsible for ensuring engagement performance.

Core functions include client relationship management, business development of a strategic growth area, staff engagement, creation of customized solutions, thought leader, sales driver and support, and people development.

Help to strengthen our business through the expansion of our client network, development of new services, contributions to thought leadership, recruiting qualified professionals, and coaching and developing our existing team.

Qualifications

Role Expectations

Grow the Business

Drive new business by leveraging existing relationships and our team’s reputation. Primary areas of focus for business development will be Enterprise Risk Management, Institutional Compliance, and Consulting Services for internal audit or other assurance functions.

Partner with colleagues across the Education and Research, Healthcare, and Digital teams to identify opportunities and support cross-selling effort for these colleagues.

Leverage industry brand and network to cultivate new clients.

Identify/evaluate potential senior talent candidates to accelerate the growth of our team.

Serve as the primary driver, supporting the Solution Lead, for Huron’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Solutions:

• Developing and implementing risk management frameworks
• Partnering with risk owners to manage institutional risks – strategic, operational, financial and compliance.
• Coordinating with the Huron Digital and Analytics teams on risk management and data analysis solutions

Prospecting and developing new clients to in enterprise risk management, audit, and institutional compliance:

• Maintain an extensive pipeline of qualified new client opportunities.
• Ability to build and sustain long term relationships with clients to drive revenue.

Serve Our Clients

Serve in a senior advisory and/or engagement leadership role for several clients each year focused on project delivery and account expansion. Activities to include building trusted advisor relationships with senior executives, leading/supporting executive team meetings, framing approach and methodology, participating in stakeholder interviews, and reviewing deliverables.

Achieve utilization target in addition to business development, practice/capability building and mentoring/developing team members.

Lead the Business
Serve as a thought leader within the EDR teams, contributing market and/or client intelligence to our capability advancement.

Serve as a leader in our EDR team, innovating existing methodologies and offerings and support the creation of relevant thought leadership, and serve as a coach and mentor to team members.

Develop our People
Demonstrate commitment to growing and developing our people.

Become an active coach and mentor to select team members.

Education
Undergraduate Degree (e.g., BA, BS). MBA or CPA a plus

Preferred