Regional Regulatory Affairs Advisor

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The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Professional 307

Pay Range: $66300.00 - $99500.00

Job Description

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Remains knowledgeable of state laws and regulations; national state and professional regulations; and trends within higher educationmaintaining a multi-state tracking system to monitor changes which may or will affect WGUs students and/or operations.
• Secures and maintains state-specific authorization and when need other approvals within the region.
• Understands all requirements to obtain state authorizationeven if the university utilizes state authorization reciprocity to teach students in a specific jurisdiction.
• Liaises with other university departments to support compliance activities and to provide information about requirements to ensure overall university compliance.
• Manages communications (e.g. complaints and questions) from state portal agents.
• Raises issues with planned changes that require different resourcing or problem solving and participates in addressing the planned changes.
• Applies national regional state and programmatic standards and regulations and rules to determine effects on college regional or state operations; raise issues that require different resourcing or problem solving; and coordinate project plans to support departmental initiatives.
• Assures representation of the university at strategic meetings in each jurisdiction personally attending when defence of WGUs position is needed.
• Assists with region-specific events that affect the universitys compliance
• Liaises as needed with/for students and/or graduates seeking professional licenses in the region.
• Works with other regional teammates answering questions using defensible research methodologies.
• Creates and earns the trust of external and internal stakeholders
• Participates in intra- and inter-departmental initiatives.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge Skill and Abilities:

• Technological competence with MS Office suite (Microsoft Teams SharePoint and Office 360) and data collection analysis retrieval and visualization systems
• Basic understanding of descriptive and inferential statistics
• Basic understanding of organizational process strategies
• Able to understand policies legislative and/or regulatory codes and standards
• Able to exercise good judgment and effectively organize prioritize and perform multiple job functions and conflicting priorities
• Proven capacity to present to large audiences in an engaging manner
• Able to organize travel when needed within the region
• Exceptional attention to detail and able to meet all required deadlines
• Able to multi-task and work on multiple projects at the same time
• Able to adapt quickly and easily to changeswhether demanded by internal or external organizations

Competencies:

Organizational Impact:

• Responsible forimplementing initiativesand projects establishedby university ordepartment leadership;establishes operationalplans for departmentfunction or office withshort-term impact onresults
• May deliver input intonew processesstandards or plans thatimpact overall university ordepartment results.

Problem Solving & Decision Making:

• Leverages a systems-thinking approach forimproving existingprocesses and systemswithin the department usingsignificantconceptualizingreasoning andinterpretation
• Problems and issuesfaced are numerousdifficult and requiredetailed informationgathering and affectmultiple areas orspecialties. Problemsand issues span a wide range ofchallenging and uniquesituations

Communication & Influence:

• Collaborates cross-functionally with partieswithin and outside ofthe department and mayoccasionallycommunicate withexternal parties
• May influence others toaccept the job areasviews practicesconcepts andapproaches and conduct briefings withleaders within theUniversity ordepartment

Leadership & Talent Management

• Responsible forproviding guidancecoaching and training toother employees in thedepartment Function orOffice
• Provides direction toproject team membersincluding feedback onperformance
• Demonstrates the WGUleadership principles inall aspects of service tostudents employees andpartners of WGU

Job Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in one of the departments areas of focus (or a cognate field) from an accredited college or university or equivalency
• Five (5) years experience working in a highly regulated environment (e.g. higher education regulation compliance accreditation or quality assurance working with multiple national programmatic and state accreditation and approval bodies such as state boards of education/educator preparation state boards of nursing)
• Experience in program approval and/or professional licensing processes with more than one authority and experience with regulated case management (e.g. student complaints)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Additional experience as a licensed professional (e.g. accountant nurse teacherpreference given to those in previous roles of leadership within college or university educator preparation programs
• Knowledge of legislative/regulatory procedures in four or more jurisdictions.
• Previous use of change management tracking tools (e.g. State Net Fiscal Note web crawlers etc.)
• Prior training as a quality examiner (Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award preferred)
• Experience presenting to authoritative bodies (e.g. state boards legislatures large audiences etc.)
• Experience writing and shepherding reports through differing approval process
• General knowledge of project management
• Bi-lingual (writing and speaking)

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
• NOTE: Travel may occur between 15 and 20% of the time. Occasional work on nights and weekends may be necessary to complete the tasks of this position.

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Position & Application Details

Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical dental vision telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual 11 paid holidays and other paid leaves including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

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