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If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.
Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families. Job Profile Summary: The School Compliance Advisor will recommend strategies or positions for university programs, credentials, and approval bodies to help the school achieve its Key Results. This position supports the implementation of projects and changes that maintain accreditation and/or jurisdiction-specific approvals. This position works with university leaders for the continued compliance and success of each of the school's offerings.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities: * Keeps a multi-jurisdictional knowledge of programmatic approval, licensure, and publication requirements. * Suggests ways to manage compliance with changes in the standards and requirements of local, state, regional, and/or national approval agencies. * Oversees longitudinal projects relating to accreditation or program approval (e.g., self-studies, reports, site visits), briefing leaders along the path to successful completion of the process. * Serves as lead author on each of these documents, writing the bulk of the narrative and ensuring the final product and all attachments are in "one voice." * Monitors, consults, and advises all stakeholders regarding changes to national, state, and professional regulations, guidelines, and standards to support accreditation and compliance activities for each of the school's credentials. * Liaises with university departments to ensure both school-specific and overall university compliance. * Advises on operational and regulatory requirements for faculty credentialing and professional development. * Supports projects in strategic and operating plans pertaining to new programs or credential offerings (obtaining necessary regulatory approvals). * Assists regional leadership on issues related to jurisdiction-specific accreditation or recognition. * Surfaces problems with the ability to operate in specific jurisdictions, analyses each to find a root cause, and suggests ways to improve processes and systems to keep the problem from reoccurring and potentially proactively applying those learnings to other jurisdictions to avoid similar issues. * Liaises with assigned regulatory oversight bodies and appropriate professional organizations. * Prepares school personnel for site visits (using mock visits and other techniques, as needed), manages the logistics and communication flows for the visit, and analyzes visiting team feedback to produce a final report. * Connects dots between and among assigned states, liaising with other advisors to ascertain patterns and directions. * Performs other related duties as assigned.
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Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local la w.