Compliance Administrator

Responsibilities

• Reviews and assesses all functional areas within the facility to identify compliance issues.
• Audits reports or inquiries received from Corporate, clients or outside entities are reviewed to coordinate drafting appropriate responses.
• Develops effective instruments to determine whether departments are in compliance.
• Mets with department managers to determine whether the area is in compliance with the organization, contracting client, and/or outside party.
• Partners with department managers to develop strategies to gain compliance when non-compliant.
• Serves as the facility’s subject matter expert in the area of interpreting the compliance and accreditation criteria based on organization, contracting client, or outside party requirements.
• Validates that the facility’s policies and procedures are in compliance with organizational, contracting clients, and/or outside party’s guidelines.
• Performs facility level operational reviews and audits of all functional areas as required by a published schedule, accurately reporting any findings of noncompliance, and recommending appropriate corrective actions.
• Collects and reports to a compliance or accreditation party.
• Serves as the facility’s liaison to the organization, contracting client, and/or other outside party to ensure that all inquiries are responded to in a timely manner.
• Ensures effective working relationships with a variety of employees, contracting agents, and the general public.
• Presents information on compliance and accreditation issues to the facility.
• Ensures the effective implementation of the organization’s Quality Control Program (QCP).
• May supervise the Compliance Auditors.
• Analyzes departmental operations and develops action plans to improve service delivery systems.
• Maintains all database and paper documentation on the facility’s compliance and accreditation programs.

Qualifications

• Excellent leadership skills, flexibility, team spirit, the ability to work and present to a diverse group of people from all levels are among the best candidate’s top qualifications.
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of operations and the ability to compare them to organizational, client, and third-party compliance and accreditation policies and guidelines.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Criminal Justice or Finance or related field along with three (3) year experience in a confinement, law enforcement or compliance related capacity OR A high school diploma or GED with five (5) years of progressive experience in confinement, law enforcement or compliance related fields may be substituted based on management’s discretion.
• Experience needs to demonstrate an understanding for the facility’s operations while being able to compare them to organizational, contracting client, and other outside party’s compliance and accreditation policies and guidelines.
• Experience in compliance, accreditation, and quality management is highly desirable.
• Above average verbal and written communication.
• Must be able to make presentations to employees at all levels of the facility.
• Must be able to write cohesive and comprehensive documentation.
• May be required to travel.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.