DIRECTOR OF INTERNAL COMPLIANCE AUDITS

Summary

The Director of Internal Compliance Audits has four major functions. First, the Auditor ensures institutional compliance through onsite campus visits, remote view, surveys, and other methods to formally identify risks via an audit work plan or protocol. Second, the Auditor will oversee remediation efforts once an audit is completed. Third, the Auditor will provide input into policy and best practice development and revision to overcome and prevent compliance infractions and maintain a strong compliance culture throughout Spartan. Finally, the Auditor will continuously research topics to support audit planning, and effective evaluation of campus and staff compliance audit related performance and deliver related training.

Priorities

• Develop, implement, and maintain an audit program.
• Audit campuses for compliance with accreditor and state requirements, understanding that compliance with federal and programmatic requirements are included in maintaining overall compliance with accreditors and state regulators.
• Assist campuses in remediating audit findings.
• Provide input into development of policies, procedures, and resources to overcome and prevent audit findings.
• Research topics to support audit planning, and effective evaluation of campus and staff compliance audit related performance and deliver related training.

Essential Functions

• Perform campus audits to ensure compliance with internal policies and procedures, state, accreditor, and other regulatory agency standards.
• Complete and present detailed audit results to a variety of levels of the organization.
• Engage various levels of the organization to ensure processes and procedures are updated to address audit deficiencies.
• Perform ongoing research and monitoring support related to regulatory changes to ensure compliance by the campuses, faculty and staff with national and programmatic accreditation standards, and state licensing regulations.
• Follow audit protocols to ensure campuses are monitored and evaluated in fair and accurate manner.
• Regular travel to all campuses to prepare for site visits and audit for compliance with standards.
• Provide training to campus leaders, staff, faculty and remote employees.
• Prepare audit reports that are accurate, easy to understand, actionable as well as maintain a record of audit performance and provide detailed analytical reports regarding audit deficiencies as requested.
• Participate in professional development each year as required.
• Assume a voting role on the policy committee.
• And other duties assigned.

Marketing Materials Expanded Functions:

• Audit marketing and admissions materials, blogs, social, etc. as needed to ensure compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.

Knowledge / Skills:

• Knowledge of and substantive experience with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within postsecondary education.
• Strong time management skills and attention to detail including the ability to review accreditation and regulatory materials, develop training, and build assessments of institutional compliance.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, education, or related field required
• Master’s degree preferred
• At least three years of experience working with compliance, state licensing, and national accrediting agencies.

+ Prefer experience with:

• Accreditors: ACCSC and/or COE
• States: DPOS, OBPVS, and/or BPPE

+ Optional additional experience with:

• US Department of Education
• Federal Aviation Administration

• Experience building and maintaining an internal audit/assessment protocol for a complex, multi\-site, regulated organization.
• Optional Preferred Experience with Campus Management/Anthology Student Information System: Current Version is CampusNexus®.

Certificates, License, Registrations

• None required

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

This is a largely sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand as necessary. This job operated in a clerical office setting, and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger; and talk or hear.

AAP/EEO Statement

Spartan College provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, the company takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated. In keeping with the above conviction, Spartan College is committed to assuring that:

All recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, compensation, and other employment related programs are provided fairly to all persons on an equal opportunity basis without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law;

Employment decisions are based on the principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action; and all personnel actions such as compensation, benefits, transfers, training, and participation in social and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, creed, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Benefits

401(k) and Employer Match

Medical insurance

HSA/FSA

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Tuition Reimbursement/Employee Scholarship

Benefits

Sick Paid time off

Tuition Reimbursement/Employee Scholarship