Director, Compliance, Legal & Compliance

The Compliance Director is a leader who partners across teams to build systems and relationships that ensure fiscally sponsored nonprofit projects uphold compliance laws, regulations, and best practices.

This role is in Arabellas Legal & Compliance department and reports to the Senior Director of Compliance. In addition to collaborating with attorneys to support Arabella business needs, Compliance team members collaborate with other departments to offer technical expertise to the nonprofit organizations Arabella supports.

This role is ideal for experienced compliance professionals capable of building a positive compliance culture through client service and policy best practices. This role requires a deep understanding of compliance and compliance systems, project and change management, client and staff management, and risk assessment and mitigation. A deep understanding of nonprofit compliance is preferred, but individuals with transferable skills from other compliance industries will be considered.

Essential Responsibilities

Compliance Expertise

• Serve as a senior compliance subject matter expert who partners with colleagues to solve sensitive or complex issues across a wide array of policies and procedures.
• Respond to questions submitted to our compliance case system that require creative solutions and the application of multiple compliance policies and procedures.
• Oversee and approve case responses submitted by junior compliance staff and serve as a thought partner to them.
• Provide Arabella staff with the compliance support needed to maintain strong relationships with fiscally sponsored project staff.
• Navigate difficult conversations with stakeholders to help reach consensus and an understanding of compliance requirements.
• Identify risks and offer solutions to mitigate those risks.
• Contribute to a positive compliance culture by maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, understanding stakeholder needs, and remaining accessible and responsive to those needs.
• Synthesize information and surface important trends and outcomes to Compliance Senior Directors.
• Lead cross-team and cross-department initiatives to enhance policies and procedures to ensure greater compliance, client service, efficiency, and effectiveness. Delegate work to others while ensuring the initiative meets goals and timelines.
• Oversee knowledge management initiatives aimed at driving Compliances adoption of ArabellasLearning Management System including the production of on-demand content, live training, and process guides.

Team Leadership & Strategy

• Participate in the extended leadership team for Partner Solutions, supporting the implementation of the departments strategic plans.
• Manage assigned department operations (e.g. capacity tracking, identifying professional development opportunities for the team, retreat planning).
• Contribute to and oversee the achievement of assigned team objectives or workstreams.

People Management

• Oversee and manage performance accountabilities including setting individualized goals and managing role expectations for each direct report; ensure performance accountabilities for skip-level direct reports.
• Contribute to professional growth and satisfaction of staff by providing appropriate direction, support, guidance, and mentorship for staff at all levels.
• Promote a firm culture that centers equity and belonging; develop and share relevant skills and issuearea expertise.
• Directly manage team of 1-4 team members, including performance management and a focus on developing, motivating, and mentoring direct reports.
• Contribute to retention strategies to support stable team management.
• Oversee effective time utilization for direct reports.
• Convey, support, and as appropriate, translate firm messages from leadership to direct reports.
• Elevate staff voices, needs, and concerns to team and firm leadership.

To Be Successful in This Role, Youll Need

• 8-10 years of relevant professional experience.
• Compliance or project management certification preferred.
• Experience managing compliance functions and promoting a strong culture of compliance.
• 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofit compliance expertise is preferred, and familiarity with fiscal sponsorship is a plus.
• The ability to understand and effectively communicate about a wide array of compliance topics and policies.
• The ability to synthesize data to identify and communicate about trends.
• Experiencecoachingstaffandteammatesonhowtoaddresscomplexservice or compliancechallenges.
• Ability to oversee and advise on multiple complex projects, including encouraging workflow and work plan innovations, and ensuring high quality deliverables.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills which allow you to understand various stakeholder perspectives, effectively communicate difficult messages, and represent the firm to external audiences.
• Proven ability to guide teams in overcoming collaboration challenges and promote compromise, inclusion, and openness while meeting aggressive timelines and maintaining accountability.
• Ability to foster and promote safe and inclusive environments to build team connections and trust.

Our Core Competencies

• The ability to provide excellent service, including being able to effectively manage resources, create and implement enhancements across the firm to efficiently achieve service standards, and to coach junior teammates on how to address complex service challenges.
• The ability to oversee and advise on multiple complex projects, including encouraging workflow and work plan innovations, and ensuring deliverables are highquality and meet clients needs.
• The ability to coach colleagues in how to understand stakeholders perspectives and to handle highlevel stakeholder challenges.
• The ability to effectively communicate difficult messages, to represent the firm to external audiences, and to mentor colleagues in how to adapt style, tone, and content to various audiences.
• The ability to help teams overcome collaboration challenges and promote compromise, inclusion, and openness; promote and lead activities that support an open, safe, and inclusive organization; understand the context in which we work and build critical crossteam connections; and share useful knowledge firm wide.
• The ability to regularly integrate learnings to improve team operations, to lead learning opportunities that enhance team performance, and to be a mentor to others.
• The ability to empower teammates to solve problems and provide guidance only when necessary; to solve complex challenges without clear owners or solutions by identifying innovative approaches; and to facilitating coordination with others and to coach colleagues in thinking through solutions
• The ability to create space for and/or facilitate conversations about DEI, bring diverse networks and relationships to the firm, and model leading through ones own learning edges.

Working with Us

While this position must be based in Washington, DC; Durham, NC; Chicago, IL; New York, NY or San Francisco, CA, please note that all Arabella Advisors offices have reopened, and we work in a hybrid environment.

Please note that all Arabella Advisors offices are open, and we work with a hybrid workplace strategy to ensure continued flexibility for our staff, while deepening our strong culture rooted in collaboration and in-person interactions between colleagues. We expect that after their initial onboarding, all Arabellans will have the choice of two hybrid schedules. Our hybrid schedule options include: Flex, with 1-2 days per week in the office, or Office-based, with 3+ days per week in the office (or more if preferred). The remaining days are worked at home/remotely. We will make reasonable accommodations under the guidelines of the Americans With Disabilities Act.

We are committed to having a passion-driven, inclusive, transparent, collaborative, healthy, and fun culture. We invite you to visit our careers page to learn more.

About Arabella Advisors

Arabella Advisors helps foundations, philanthropists and investors who are serious about impact achieve the greatest good with their resources. We work on issues ranging from the social and economic advancement of women and girls, and conservation of our climate and planet, to reducing poverty and inequity in the United States and around the world. Our staff members are mission-driven and action-oriented, and have a unique combination of experience in philanthropy, business, nonprofits, government, finance, law, and other fields. We combine creative, strategic thinking with knowledge and networks developed through decades of hands-on experience. The fastest-growing philanthropic advisory firm in the nation, Arabella is also a certified B Corporation.

Our Commitment to Equity and Belonging

Advancing equity and belonging within our firm and in our work with partners is critical to our mission. To be effective partners to philanthropists, nonprofits, and communities impacted by philanthropic dollars, we need to have a highly diverse staff, a workplace where individuals are encouraged to retain their uniqueness and can feel a sense of belonging, and a nuanced understanding of the characteristics that undergird the issues we engage in and the interactions we have with one another. For us, equity means that our staff members, our clients, and the people they serve can experience the same level of success, no matter their starting place. We expect all our employees to share this commitment and always seek ways to improve how well we live these values.

Total Rewards (compensation and benefits)

This is a full-time position. We offer a competitive and holistic total rewards package that includes salary, bonus, and benefits. Our compensation ranges are based on national compensation benchmarks for similar organizations.

The salary range for this position is $118,000 - $128,000 and with an annual bonus potential of 10% for this position.

We consider national benchmark indicators along with job related skills, experience and relevant education and training, to determine compensation that is fair and competitive.

All full-time staff are eligible for our generous benefits package on their first day of employment:

• Health insurance- On average Arabella pays 86% of the medical premium, 80% of the dental premium, and 100% of the vision premium
• Paid time off- 16 days vacation, 10 personal days, 11 company holidays (7 federal and 4 more from a list of inclusivecultural andreligious holidays and your birthday), 20 hours volunteer leave, 8 weeks parental leave
• 401(k) retirement plan- We offer a 4% employer match on a dollar-per-dollar basis, and there is no waiting or vesting period; all funds contributed by you and Arabella are yours to keep on day 1
• Reimbursements for your personal cell phone plan and fitness
• Pre-tax withholding for transportation and parking
• Bonus incentive opportunities
• Access to professional development opportunities

How to Apply

Submit a resume and a one-page cover letter online. The cover letter should address why youre excited to work at Arabella and why youre qualified for this specific job.

Arabella Advisors is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to racial equity.We make a particular effort to recruit people of color and members of marginalized groups to apply for open positions. Once you have applied, we welcome your feedback on how you have experienced our values around DEI in the recruitment process.

While Arabella is open to individuals from various locations applying to join our team, please note that we generally are unable to pay for relocation expenses, and, except in rare circumstances considered on a case-by-case basis, all applicants must already be legally eligible to work in the United States at the time of application to be considered for this position.If you need accommodation in the recruitment process, please let us know.

We will review applications as they are received and look forward to hearing from you.

Pay Range:$118,000 - $128,000 per year