Compliance Administrator

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

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Responsibilities

Summary:
The Compliance Administrator at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities is a supervisory position that serves as the facility’s subject matter expert on all compliance and accreditation issues. Develops, maintains, and revises all assessment instruments to monitor the success of a facility’s compliance activities. Develops reports for management regarding the facility’s compliance and accreditation areas. Recommends process improvements, as necessary. Solely accountable for communicating rules, regulations, and guidelines to all impacted areas throughout the facility. May be assigned to projects that may impact the region or organization. This position also serves as the facility’s liaison regarding the interpretation of all compliance and accreditation policies and guidelines. Finally, this position acts on behalf of the organization when compliance and accreditation audits occur.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• The Compliance Administrator reviews and assesses all functional areas within the facility to identify compliance issues. Documents reviews through formalized reports with an assessment of the issues and recommendations for improvement.
• Develops effective instruments to determine whether departments are in compliance.
• The Compliance Administrator meets with department managers to determine whether the area is in compliance with the organization, contracting client, or outside party. When non-compliant, partners with department managers to develop strategies to gain compliance.
• 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. The Compliance Administrator validates that the facility’s policies and procedures are in compliance with organizational, contracting clients, 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, 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).
• Supervises 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.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field along with three (3) year experience in a corrections, law enforcement, or related capacity. Experience needs to demonstrate an understanding of 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. (A high school diploma or GED with five (5) years of progressive experience in corrections, law enforcement or related fields may be substituted based on management’s discretion.)
• Experience in compliance, accreditation, and quality management is highly desirable.
• Above average verbal and written communication skills. 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.
• Supervisory experience is highly desirable.
• Must be able to evaluate compliance with regulations, accreditation policies and procedures by reviewing and analyzing records, reports, operating practices, and documentation; recommending opportunities to strengthen the internal control processes.
• Ability to apply compliance and accreditation requirements to facility’s operational processes.
• Ability to write reports and summaries in a cohesive and concise manner.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with employees and/or outside parties in a professional manner. Previous experience in giving presentations/trainings preferred.
• Must be able to effectively maintain databases of information related to the facility’s compliance and accreditation processes.
• Must be able to prepare for audits by researching materials, formulating a plan of action.
• Ability to work with computers and the necessary software typically used by the department.

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