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 a
complex 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, and
problem-solving. Strong ability to communicate at a Board and executive level, and
collaborate with executive and operational management.
Knowledge of relevant legal and regulatory requirements, standards and principles
governing public institutions of higher education. Knowledge of conflict of interest
requirements, including federal research requirements. Familiarity with Virginia
requirements are highly preferred.
Ability to maintain a high degree of sensitivity and exercise discretion on confidential
matters.
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical matters, both verbally and in
writing, to end-users who have varied levels of understanding of subject matters.
Demonstrated ability to perform risk assessments and develop comprehensive
Compliance plans.
Demonstrated ability to organize, set priorities, and manage multiple competing
deadlines 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 to
compliance.
Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, and
convey matters to large diverse audiences (students/faculty/staff).
Demonstrated ability to manage vertically within a highly complex organization with
significant 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 high
quality, coordinated, risk-based institutional compliance program that provides effective
oversight 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 other
requirements). Ensure complete, accurate, and current ongoing processes are
implemented.
4, Establish, manage, and maintain a current assessment of the risks associated with
the 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 operating
management has been assigned ownership for risk-based distributed compliance
programs to appropriately monitor and manage such risks.
7. Develop risk owner talent and expertise through communications and training
systems related to effective, mature risk-based distributed compliance programs.
8. Provide proactive advice and insight to the President and senior university leaders
related 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 and
distributed compliance programs; and (II) significant compliance risks or exposures and
the steps management has taken to monitor and manage such risks.
10. Lead, supervise, and execute institutional processes to ensure that potential conflicts
of interest are identified, evaluated, and, where needed, mitigated. Oversee execution of
plans established by management to mitigate conflicts of interest and ensure adequate
reporting to executive management.
11. Develop programs and coordinate the implementation and execution of special
projects 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.