Senior Compliance Manager

🇺🇸 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 🕑 Full-Time 💰 TBD 💻 Compliance 🗓️ September 3rd, 2026

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UNC-Chapel Hill is hiring a Senior Compliance Manager. This role leads the NC Collaboratory's Physical Sciences team's research programs by monitoring compliance, managing workflows, and resolving task management issues. The position oversees contract activities, facilitates stakeholder engagement, and ensures effective execution and performance monitoring of research initiatives that address state policy challenges.

Highlights

Lead operational management and compliance monitoring of research programs within the NC Collaboratory Physical Sciences team.
Serve as escalation point for task management issues from other Program Managers.
Manage contracts, recommend workflow improvements, and optimize documentation and data management.
Coordinate stakeholder input from researchers, program staff, and institutional partners.
Requires project or program management experience, including tactical planning and research administration software knowledge.
Experience supervising, mentoring, and training individuals or groups.
Demonstrated skills in budgeting, financial oversight, contract administration, data analysis, and problem solving.
Preferred credentials include research administration certification and progressive experience with contracts and grants.
Educational requirement: Master's degree or Bachelor's degree with 0-2 years' relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Internal-facing role reporting to the Research Director for Physical Sciences, focusing on research programs benefiting state and local government policy.