Deputy Chief Risk & Compliance Officer (Full Time, Hybrid, North Carolina Based)

The Deputy Chief Risk & Compliance Officer serves as the senior operating and governance leader for the Office of Compliance and Risk Management, translating the EVP-Chief Risk/Compliance Officer’s strategic direction into coordinated execution across Corporate Compliance, Privacy and Health Information Governance, and Enterprise Risk Management.

The position supervises designated functional leaders, integrates cross-functional priorities, chairs assigned governance committees, resolves routine and complex operational matters, and ensures significant risks and decisions are elevated to the EVP in a timely, concise, and decision-ready manner.

This is a full-time hybrid opportunity. The successful candidate will report onsite to the Alliance Home Office (Morrisville, NC) 1-2 days per week.

Responsibilities & Duties

Division Operations and Strategic Execution

• Translate the EVP-Chief Risk/Compliance Officer’s strategic direction into coordinated divisional priorities, annual goals, work plans, performance measures, and operating expectations across Corporate Compliance, Privacy and Health Information Governance, and Enterprise Risk Management
• Monitor execution of approved priorities and evaluate program performance, capacity, resource needs, and emerging barriers
• Integrate activities across functions to reduce duplication, close gaps, strengthen accountability, and support consistent second-line oversight
• Provide concise, exception-based reporting to the EVP regarding material issues, decisions, trends, and matters requiring executive action

Leadership, Supervision, and Talent Development

• Directly supervise and develop the Senior Director-Corporate Compliance, Director-HIPAA Compliance/Privacy Officer, Risk Manager, and other assigned leaders
• Set clear performance expectations, provide coaching and feedback, conduct performance management, support succession planning, and promote professional growth
• Build a collaborative leadership environment that preserves functional expertise and appropriate independence while strengthening coordination across teams
• Partner with Human Resources and the EVP on recruitment, retention, organizational design, leadership development, and resolution of significant personnel matters

Cross-Functional Governance and Committee Leadership

• Chair the Delegation and Accreditation Oversight Committee and, following an approved transition, the AI Governance Committee
• Ensure committee agendas, materials, decision frameworks, minutes, action tracking, and escalation processes support effective and defensible governance
• Provide executive-level coordination and oversight support for assigned committees, including the Compliance Committee, while preserving the EVP’s role as executive sponsor and ensuring significant matters are elevated appropriately
• Maintain separation between leaders responsible for day-to-day program operations and governance bodies responsible for review, challenge, decisions, and escalation

Compliance, Privacy, and Risk Program Oversight

• Provide integrated management oversight of Corporate Compliance, Privacy/HIPAA, and Enterprise Risk Management while preserving each function’s subject-matter authority and direct-access safeguards
• Review program performance, significant investigations or incidents, regulatory and contractual developments, corrective actions, work-plan progress, and risk trends
• Ensure policies, procedures, monitoring, education, reporting, and corrective-action processes are coordinated and support organizational accountability
• Confirm that material compliance, privacy, ethics, and enterprise-risk matters are promptly assessed and escalated to the EVP as required

Issue Resolution, Escalation, and Executive Decision Support

• Resolve routine and complex cross-functional matters within delegated authority and remove barriers that affect division performance
• Establish and administer escalation criteria identifying matters reserved to the EVP, Chief Audit Executive, CEO, Executive Team, or Board
• For material matters, coordinate fact development, risk analysis, stakeholder input, options, and recommendations so the EVP receives decision-ready information
• Maintain open escalation pathways for significant ethical, privacy, compliance, risk, retaliation, independence-sensitive, or organizational concerns, including matters involving the Deputy

Executive, Board, and External Readiness

• Coordinate preparation of integrated reports, dashboards, presentations, briefing materials, and follow-up items for the EVP, CEO, Executive Team, and Board Audit & Compliance Committee
• Support the EVP’s role as staff liaison to the Board Audit & Compliance Committee while ensuring functional leaders are prepared to present matters within their areas of responsibility
• Coordinate responses and readiness activities for significant regulatory, contractual, accreditation, audit, consultant, and other external reviews involving assigned functions
• Represent the EVP or Office of Compliance and Risk Management in internal or external forums when delegated

Continuous Improvement and Organizational Partnership

• Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of division governance, reporting, meeting structures, workflows, and coordination practices
• Partner with Program Integrity, Internal Audit, Legal, Quality, Information Security, Information Technology, Human Resources, Vendor Relations, clinical leadership, and operational departments to address cross-functional risks and improve organizational controls
• Promote risk-informed decision-making, ethical conduct, transparency, learning, and practical compliance solutions throughout the organization
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce administrative burden, strengthen data and dashboard use, and improve responsiveness to emerging risks

Minimum Requirements

Education & Experience

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, Compliance, Risk Management, or a related field, from an accredited college/university, and a minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare compliance, privacy, enterprise risk management, internal audit, program integrity, regulatory affairs, governance, or another related second-line or oversight function.

Experience must include at least five (5) years in a management or senior leadership role with responsibility for leading professional staff, managing complex cross-functional initiatives, and advising executive leadership.

Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP), Associate in Risk Management (ARM), RIMS Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP), or comparable compliance, risk, privacy, or governance certification, required

Demonstrated experience in a highly regulated environment and experience integrating multiple compliance, privacy, risk, audit, legal, or governance disciplines are required.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, Compliance, Risk Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university or Juris Doctor.
• Experience in Medicaid managed care, health plans, government-sponsored healthcare, or a comparable regulated healthcare environment (is preferred).
• Experience supporting cross-functional governance and oversight committees, developing governance frameworks, leading organizational change, and presenting complex risk and compliance matters to executive leadership or a governing board (is preferred).
• Additional relevant professional certifications are preferred.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Expert knowledge of healthcare compliance program requirements, ethics and compliance principles, and regulatory governance
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise risk management, privacy/HIPAA, internal controls, auditing/monitoring, investigations, and corrective-action principles
• Ability to integrate multiple oversight functions, identify interdependencies, and translate strategy into coordinated execution
• Executive judgment and ability to distinguish routine matters from material issues requiring CEO, Executive Team, Board, or regulatory escalation
• Leadership, supervision, coaching, succession planning, conflict resolution, and organizational change management
• Ability to communicate complex, sensitive, or controversial information clearly to executives, Board members, regulators, providers, vendors, and staff
• Committee governance, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and decision-rights design
• Analytical skills, risk-based decision-making, dashboard/report interpretation, and preparation of concise executive recommendations
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and reporting or visualization tools

Salary Range

$161,372 - $201,715/ Annual

Exact compensation will be determined based on the candidate's education, experience, external market data and consideration of internal equity

An excellent fringe benefit package accompanies the salary, which includes:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long Term Disability
• Generous retirement savings plan
• Flexible work schedules including hybrid/remote options
• Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, holiday, management leave
• Dress flexibility

Employment for this position is contingent upon a satisfactory background check and credit check, which will be performed after acceptance of an offer of employment and prior to the employee's start date.