Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance and Eligibility

Overview

Description

Title:

Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance and Eligibility
Position Number: 0077568
Hiring Unit: UHM Athletics Department

Location:

Compliance Department
Date Posted:
October 28, 2025
Closing Date:
November 12, 2025
Band: C
Salary: salary schedules and placement information
Full Time/Part Time:
Full Time
Temporary/Permanent:
Permanent

• The Assistant Athletics Director for Compliance and Eligibility assumes a critical role in ensuring operational compliance and advancing a culture of integrity of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa (UHM) Athletics Division I Program.
• Develops, implements, and maintains a comprehensive compliance program for all facets of the state s only Division I NCAA athletic program, ensuring institutional control and adherence to NCAA, affiliated conferences and University regulations.
• Manages all day-to-day operations of the Athletics Compliance Office. Serves as the head of the compliance program, systematically reviewing and ensuring accuracy in all compliance areas (recruiting, eligibility, financial aid, awards and benefits, amateurism, personnel, playing and practice seasons, camps and clinics, etc.).
• Reports directly to the Associate Athletics Director for Student-Athlete Services. Has a direct reporting line to the President to ensure institutional control and report NCAA violation concerns with regard to UHM Athletics Administration.
• Acts as the primary UHM liaison to the NCAA and affiliated conferences for all compliance matters. Serves as liaison to coaches, athletics and university staff and student-athletes while providing guidance, education and interpretations regarding compliance and eligibility issues.
• Creates, directs, manages and evaluates all documentation and prepares reports for initial and continuing academic eligibility for all student-athletes. Reviews transcripts, grades, credits earned, test scores and admissions status. Meets with the Certification Committee to certify eligibility. Oversees and tracks the distribution to Head Coaches, of official eligibility and clearance reports.
• Serves as one of the final signing authorities along with the Faculty Athletics Representative and UHM Assistant Registrar to certify that student-athletes are eligible to participate.
• Manages and processes all transfer eligibility requirements.
• Evaluates and manages documentation to establish the amateurism status of all student-athletes, including monitoring employment and promotional activities.
• Researches, prepares and files waivers.
• Ensures that academic standards are met before student-athletes are cleared to compete in the next semester and notify appropriate parties of eligible and ineligible student-athletes.
• Creates, organizes, and maintains the rules compliance system and provides extensive rules education to internal constituents (coaches, staff, student-athletes, Financial Aid, Admissions, Registrar) and external constituents (boosters and the interested public).
• Serves as interpretive authority, provides rules clarifications and interpretations to department staff; monitors changes in NCAA/conference rules, and stays abreast of new NCAA legislation.
• Monitors all aspects of recruiting and the recruiting process, including off-campus recruiting, official/unofficial visits, and coaches  activities.
• Monitors and tracks Countable Athletically Related Activities (CARA) and ensures compliance with playing and practice season limitations.
• Prepares and submits major NCAA reports, including the Academic Progress Rate (APR), Graduation Success Rate (GSR), and Sport Sponsorship/Demographic reports.
• Clears student-athletes to receive athletics aid.
• Monitors, processes and approves the complimentary admission process.
• Establishes a comprehensive student-athlete and coach Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) education plan consistent with evolving rules and standards. Coordinates and oversees the department s NIL and Revenue Sharing education and monitoring efforts. Reviews and approves SA NIL Go accounts. Submits team rosters to CAPS for roster declarations. Ensures department-wide compliance with all NCAA and conference-mandated reporting…