Director of Compliance

Director of Compliance

Salary: $64,877.00 - $101,701.00 Annually

Location: Moraga, CA

Job Type: Full-Time

Job Number: 202600032

Division: Athletics Division

Department: Intercollegiate Athletics Programs Department

Closing: Continuous

Job Summary

This position will support the College's NCAA monitoring and compliance efforts, ensuring facilitation of procedures regarding the Department of Athletics compliance policies, the NCAA and WCC bylaws, and providing support for the compliance efforts of all coaches, student-athletes, administration and outside entities. This position will be directly responsible for monitoring the eligibility of student-athletes as well as prospective student-athletes as it relates to academic eligibility, amateurism, and outside competition. As such, this position will serve as a liaison to the Academic Misconduct Office. This position will provide rules education in all areas, with an emphasis on recruiting regulations. This position will track student-athlete employment, playing season regulations, and complimentary admissions. This position will oversee Playing and Practice Seasons legislation and oversee a student worker as assist in this effort.

Essential Responsibilities

Rules Education

• Provides rules education presentations at Department meetings, lead monthly compliance education meetings, and provide education to smaller groups on an 'as needed' basis.
• Meets annually with campus departments (admissions, financial aid, campus housing, student life, business) to provide NCAA rules education, as applicable.
• Creates and disseminates monthly compliance newsletters for athletics staff, bi-annual compliance newsletters for student-athletes and annual newsletters for parent s of student -athletes, athletics boosters and season ticket holders.
• Updates the compliance website with NCAA, WCC and institutional rules education documents.
• Conducts compliance orientations with new coaches and staff.
• Conducts the annual NCAA beginning of the year meeting for all student-athletes.
• Conducts targeted rules education to various sport programs depending on level of perceived risk with regards to potential rules violations.
• Conducts required rules education as a result of NCAA violations.
• Maintains a database of current rules education tipsheets for Compliance Department dissemination

Initial Eligibility, Continuing Eligibility

• Directly responsible for monitoring the eligibility of prospective student- athletes during the recruitment phase until full-time enrollment at the college.
• Acts as institutional contact for the NCAA Eligibility Center.
• Responsible for approving all recruiting visits and maintaining visit paperwork.
• Provides rules education regarding NCAA and WCC eligibility requirements to all prospective student-athletes who take recruiting visits.
• Will act as liaison to Academic Support in monitoring the continuing eligibility of enrolled student-athletes as it relates to academic eligibility, amateurism, and outside competition.
• Coordinates the Continuing Eligibility Certification Committee. Provides relevant interpretations to the Committee on Bylaw 14 ramifications with continuing eligibility members. Provides rules education to Committee on Bylaw 14 rules, proposals, and changes.

Monitor Regulations and Compliance (large emphasis on Bylaw 13 and recruiting)

• Ensure that Athletics has systems in place to achieve compliance by development of compliance management systems (such as training, policies, procedures, monitoring and auditing, among others) across all functions.
• On a day-to-day basis, will maintain and monitor various compliance records for each sport, as assigned, to ensure rules compliance with NCAA and WCC legislation. Perform spot check audits of compliance records as needed.
• Conduct bi-annual meetings with each assigned coach/program to discuss the compliance efforts of their sport and assign tasks for the upcoming year.
• Provide NCAA and WCC rules interpretations to coaches, student-athletes, athletic department staff, and institutional departments.
• Employment/ Student-athlete Amateurism/Awards & Benefits. This position is directly responsible for ensuring student-athletes are compliant with NCAA employment rules.
• Reviewing, monitoring and educating student-athletes and coaches on amateurism rules related to student-athlete employment requests, promotional requests, disclosure of name. image, and likeness contracts.
• Ensuring sport teams and student-athletes are issued awards and benefits in accordance with NCAA Bylaw 16.

Playing Season Set Up and Review, Schedule Approval, Complimentary Admissions, and Rental Requests

• This position has the responsibility of overseeing all scheduling and playing and practice season approval. This includes assisting coaches with playing season set-up and coordinating the approval of countable athletically related activities by student-athletes and the compliance office.
• This position also coordinates the complimentary admissions process with the Director of Tickets, as well as providing compliance approval for all facility rental requests.
• The position will provide rules education to the involved parties as needed.

Camps and Clinics

• Educate, approve, monitor all regulations with regards to institutional camps and clinics.

Other Duties as Assigned

Experience and Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree required

Experience: Minimum of three (3) years of experience in a NCAA Compliance office (preferably Division 1) or related area.

Skills/Abilities:

• Strong written, verbal and computer skills required
• Experience in policy analysis and/or legal briefing preferred
• Thorough knowledge of the NCAA rules and regulations
• Thorough knowledge of the Compliance Assistant software and NCAA Legislative Database required
• Ability to interpret and apply NCAA rules and regulations
• Ability to compose and appropriately format correspondence and reports.
• Occasional evening and weekend work will be required.

Licenses & Certifications:

N/A