Director of Compliance

Employment Category:
Full-time administrative professional

Salary Range: $70,000-$85,000 annually

Reports to:

Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Student Success

Supervisory Status:
Supervises Office for Compliance staff

The Director of Compliance leads the Office for Compliance and serves as the University Title IX Coordinator and ADA Coordinator. The director provides institution-wide leadership for compliance with Title IX, laws addressing power-based violence, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, the Fair Housing Act, and other applicable federal and state requirements.

As Title IX Coordinator, the director develops prevention and education programs, coordinates training, and oversees the University response to reports and complaints of sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and power-based violence. The director ensures that investigations and resolution processes are adequate, reliable, timely, confidential, impartial, and consistent with governing policies and law.

As ADA Coordinator, the director leads the interactive process for employees and members of the public requesting accommodations, evaluates supporting documentation, coordinates reasonable accommodations and accessible services, and receives and investigates ADA-related complaints. The director works across the University to ensure equal access to programs, activities, employment, facilities, and services.

The director reports administratively to the Vice Chancellor for Enrollment Management and Student Success and has direct access to the SUNO Chancellor and the System Director for Compliance on substantive compliance matters. The role requires sound judgment, independence, confidentiality, cultural competence, and effective collaboration with students, employees, administrators, and the public.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

• Lead, supervise, and manage the Office for Compliance, including the Disability Services Coordinator, Deputy Title IX Coordinator, and other assigned staff.
• Establish annual priorities, procedures, case-management practices, records standards, and assessment measures for ADA, Section 504, Title IX, and power-based violence compliance.
• Advise senior leadership on compliance risks, trends, systemic concerns, corrective measures, and institutional obligations.
• Maintain independence and direct access to the Chancellor and System compliance leadership for substantive compliance matters.
• Prepare reports, maintain required records, monitor deadlines, and support federal, state, System, and University reporting obligations.

• Serve as the University Title IX Coordinator and coordinate compliance with Title IX, the Louisiana Campus Accountability and Safety Act, System policy, University policy, and other applicable requirements.
• Develop, implement, coordinate, and conduct educational programs for students and employees regarding discrimination, sexual harassment, power-based violence, reporting options and responsibilities, supportive measures, confidential resources, grievance procedures, and applicable disciplinary processes.
• Receive and assess reports and complaints; coordinate supportive measures; and oversee intake, investigation, adjudication, remedies, and resolution processes within the authority assigned by policy.
• Ensure investigations and responses are adequate, reliable, timely, confidential, impartial, and appropriately documented.
• Train deputy coordinators, investigators, confidential advisors, decision‑makers, appeal officers, and other designated personnel in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Identify patterns or systemic concerns arising from reports and complaints and recommend corrective actions, policy revisions, training, or other preventive measures.
• Monitor and promote employee completion of required compliance training and maintain related records.

• Serve as the primary University contact for ADA and Section 504 concerns involving employees and members of the public.
• Conduct intake meetings, review disability documentation, engage in the interactive process, evaluate essential job or program requirements, and develop individualized accommodation plans.
• Coordinate reasonable accommodations and accessible services so qualified individuals have equal…