Federal Regulatory Compliance Counsel

Job Description America’s Credit Unions is a leading company in the Financial Services Trade Association sector, known for our advocacy on behalf of all Credit Unions. We are seeking a highly organized and experienced Federal Regulatory Compliance Counsel to play an instrumental role in achieving important parts of America’s Credit Unions strategic plan to foster service excellence by providing trustworthy timely best‑in‑class compliance assistance, information, education and training, to remove barriers by persuading federal agencies to address implementation and operational issues with federal regulations, and to create awareness of America’s Credit Unions value proposition by disseminating information written in plain English. This position is a Hybrid role based in Washington, DC. Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid) | Salary: $140,000 - $150,000 per year. Responsibilities Compliance Expert Representative for America’s Credit Unions Work cross-functionally across all America’s Credit Unions departments to represent the association in the capacity of compliance counsel, including: Partner with other Advocacy teams to identify compliance problems impacting credit union operations and suggest regulatory and legislative solutions. Partner with Association Services to support compliance learning events, and provide timely recommendations for curriculum changes and regulatory updates for the organization’s schools, conferences, webinars, and certification programs. Partner with Membership and Engagement to develop content and compliance assistance materials on topics based on engagement, trends, and questions from members through councils, outreach, and educational channels. Display compliance expertise by regularly speaking at association conferences, league-sponsored and other credit union-organization compliance events, compliance roundtables, member credit union committee meetings, and other assigned events. Actively engage with credit unions via the compliance inbox. Respond to federal regulatory compliance inquiries from member credit unions and state leagues regarding new requirements and ongoing compliance issues. Monitor discussion threads in America’s Credit Unions’ Compliance Community and post responses as necessary. In coordination with America’s Credit Unions’ Communications team, draft and review articles highlighting regulatory compliance developments and promote the Compliance team’s work. This role may be designated as a deeper subject matter expert on one or more assigned compliance topic areas and will lead in those disciplines, tracking and reporting on all developments and monitoring legislative and regulatory developments. Compliance Content Curation Develop, update, or procure content involving new compliance developments, updates, applications, or clarifications—FAQs, summaries and briefs, compliance alerts, blog posts, compliance review tools, CPD Online courses, white papers, case studies, presentations, recordings, guides, articles—for use across the Compliance Community and Compliance Blog. Write final analyses of new federal regulations impacting compliance and update and maintain current compliance resources. Proactively engage with the broader compliance team to issue updates across various channels per operating procedures and timelines. Compliance Special Projects and Ad Hoc Assignments Collaborate closely with colleagues across the organization to work on long-term projects to strengthen the content and delivery of compliance education and training from both regulatory and operational perspectives, incorporating consultative components and addressing both federal laws and regulations and state-specific content. #J-18808-Ljbffr America’s Credit Unions