Chief Compliance Officer

ROLE OF THE ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER

Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President for Finance and Operations, the CCO leads the Office of Institutional Compliance and serves in an advisory role to senior leadership and the Board of Regents. The CCO will be a trusted partner to campus and unit leaders, providing consultation and judgment on complex or cross‑functional compliance issues. The CCO will oversee compliance activities, align policy and prioritize risks across the University.

The CCO will establish a central function to assess new laws and regulations, determine impact and resource needs, and guide implementation. The CCO will oversee a newly consolidated Privacy Office within the OIC and recruit and onboard a dedicated Chief Privacy Officer to manage HIPAA, FERPA, GDPR and other privacy programs.

The CCO will provide strategic leadership to advance a modern, enterprise‑wide compliance function that reflects and supports the scale and complexity of the University. The CCO will serve as the key architect and leader of the University of Minnesota’s institutional compliance framework across the highly decentralized, five‑campus system, partnering closely with Chancellors, Vice Presidents, and senior leaders to align compliance strategy with institutional priorities and best practices.

They will champion a proactive approach to compliance and risk management that emphasizes early identification, coordinated response, clarity of responsibility, and continuous improvement, underscoring a culture of integrity, accountability, and ethical decision‑making across the University.

To modernize the compliance infrastructure, the CCO will strategically develop systems, tools, and technologies that support training, reporting, policy management, and overall coordination. Beginning with a comprehensive review of existing structures across the University, the CCO will identify gaps, redundancies, and opportunities for greater alignment and use these findings to develop a prioritized multi‑year compliance investment roadmap. The CCO will also establish a data framework that ensures protection, integrity, and accessibility of compliance‑related data to support timely execution of compliance and reporting functions.

• Lead the Board of Regents Audit and Compliance Committee and participate directly in the newly re‑chartered leadership governance committee and the President’s Policy Committee.
• Formally lead and chair the Institutional Strategic Risk and Compliance Group, coordinating legal, risk, audit, and information security leaders to address emerging enterprise risks.
• Guide the systemwide Compliance Partner network, leveraging a decentralized, collaborative model to share information and scale best practices across all five campuses. Formalize cross‑functional affinity groups organized around key areas of risk and compliance, such as international activities, research, clinical care, student services, athletics, and data/privacy.

The CCO will strengthen the University’s Compliance Partner network, establishing mechanisms for information sharing, escalation, and coordination across compliance areas. The CCO will ensure that compliance risks are identified and addressed collaboratively across organizational boundaries.

The CCO will recruit and onboard a Chief Privacy Officer to oversee a newly established Privacy Office within OIC. In partnership with the CPO, the CCO will guide a unified privacy governance framework that defines principles, assigns…