Senior Compliance Manager
About the role
The Senior Compliance Manager provides advanced leadership in support of the NC Collaboratory's multidisciplinary research practice partnership initiatives within the Physical Sciences team to address complex issues for the benefit of the State. Reporting to the Research Director for Physical Sciences, the Senior Program Manager is primarily internal-facing and provides operational management for the execution of research programs.
Responsibilities
- Manages research programs by monitoring compliance, ensuring the effective implementation of workflows, and serving as the first point of escalation for task management issues raised by other Program Managers
- Provides technical oversight of Physical Science programs from planning through execution and performance monitoring
- Manages contract activities
- Recommends improvements to workflows, SOPs, forms, and templates
- Optimizes documentation and data management practices for consistent program execution
- Facilitates stakeholder engagement by coordinating input from researchers, program staff, and institutional partners
Program context
The NC Collaboratory develops yearly research initiatives that target a pressing policy issue or problem of practice faced by policymakers and practitioners at the State and local level in North Carolina, and awards funding to support mutually beneficial partnerships between academic research teams and partners in local governments, community organizations, State agencies, and private industries. Recent examples of existing Physical Science programs include the PFAS Testing Network, the High-Performance Computing initiative, and the Aqueous Film Forming Foam (AFFF) Takeback Program in partnership with the NC Office of the State Fire Marshal.