Job Description

The Director of Compliance and Risk Management (DCRM) plays a critical leadership role in safeguarding the College’s physical, human, and financial assets. Reporting to the Vice President for Finance and Administration and working closely with the College’s General Counsel, the DCRM leads a comprehensive, enterprise-wide approach to compliance and risk management. This includes overseeing facilities-related risk, environmental health and safety, and operational continuity. The DCRM integrates risk mitigation strategies into planning, resource allocation, and daily operations—ensuring that risks are identified, assessed, and managed proactively across campus infrastructure and activities. The role promotes a culture of safety, compliance, and strategic risk awareness throughout the institution.

Essential Functions:

• The Director of CRM will work as a compliance and risk management partner, protecting the College's assets, meeting legal obligations, protecting the health and safety of students and members of the campus community while being mindful of the internal and external image of the College.  The Director of CRM's efforts are all to be undertaken in support of the College's goals as an institution of higher learning.
• Oversee environmental health and safety: Managing the activities of staff in the Office of Environmental Health & Safety and Risk Management; developing, implementing, and maintaining environmental, occupational, and fire safety programs and records.
• Oversee compliance and risk exposures: Analyzing and addressing the College's risk exposure and limiting losses to human, financial, and physical assets; overseeing the compliance efforts of the College in collaboration with others engaged in such efforts.
• Best Practices/Trends: Researching risk management and insurance trends and information from a variety of resources; reviewing sources for best practices for the various risks confronting an institution of higher learning; identifying the value of information in its relation to Dickinson College; monitoring governmental agencies for information and governmental trends that may involve the College; and attending risk management and insurance classes, seminars and conferences.
• Training/Support/Guidelines/Policies: Providing support, education and training to faculty, students and staff to build compliance and risk awareness within the institution; developing compliance and risk management guidelines and policies and communicating to senior management, faculty, staff and students.
• Program Development: Evaluating safety standards and processes which enable the college to meet regulatory and College compliance requirements for maintaining a safe workplace and educational environment; developing, implementing, and maintaining environmental, occupational, and fire safety programs and records; providing assistance in identifying and managing compliance issues associated with international programs and activities.
• Insurance: Analyzing and determining the College’s risks that can be cost-effectively insured through insurance self- insurance programs, or transferred to third parties through contracts, agreements or other risk transference techniques; Coordinating the purchase of insurance including but not limited to worker’s compensation, general liability, educators’ legal liability, professional liability, foreign liability, vehicle liability, crime, building and contents property, as well as other insurances recommended or required to protect the college’s interest; Managing the various insurance claims relating to the College’s conventional insurance coverage; Collaborating with general counsel, outside counsel, and insurers in managing compliance, investigations and claims; managing requests for Certificates of Insurance and International Travel Insurance.
• Leadership: Leading the Workplace Safety Committee; Organizing and leading the Compliance Committee; Leading College wide contingency planning and business continuity planning; Leading the International Travel Risk Assessment Committee (ITRAC).

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree - Environmental health related

Valid Driver's License

5-8 Years Work Experience

Preferred:

Master's Degree

Certification by the Board of Certified Safety Professional and/or the American Board of Industrial Hygiene also preferred. Experience or certification in Risk Management, Emergency Management, or Business 

Bachelor's Degree - Environmental health related

Valid Driver's License

5-8 Years Work Experience

Preferred:

Master's Degree

Certification by the Board of Certified Safety Professional and/or the American Board of Industrial Hygiene also preferred. Experience or certification in Risk Management, Emergency Management, or Business 

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About Dickinson College

Known for its innovative curriculum, Dickinson is a highly selective, private liberal-arts college. One of the nation's oldest colleges, and named in honor of a signer of the U.S. Constitution, Dickinson became the first college chartered in the newly recognized United States in September 1783. Dickinson has just under 900 full and part-time employees - administrators, faculty and staff - and its 144-acre campus is populated by students from 43 U.S. states and territories and 40 foreign countries. More than half of students study abroad through the school's 50 programs in 24 countries on six continents. Dickinson is recognized as a leader among institutions committed to sustainability and green initiatives and is continually recognized by such groups as the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Sierra Club, Sustainable Endowments Institute, Princeton Review and Second Nature. Dickinson's stunning campus - featuring beautiful landscaping and buildings made of limestone - is located in the heart of the historic central Pennsylvania town of Carlisle, a key marker in Civil War activity. Founded in 1751, Carlisle, named a "most livable city" by Forbes, i...s a cosmopolitan town of 20,000 people, nestled between mountains that have long been a destination for outdoor enthusiasts. The Appalachian Trail and several mountain lakes are within easy reach of the campus, as are Hershey Park and historic Gettysburg. The town is a transportation hub linked by highway, rail and air to prominent East Coast cities, with driving times that make these cities readily accessible: Harrisburg, 20 minutes; Gettysburg, 30 minutes; Baltimore, 90 minutes; Washington, D.C., two hours; Philadelphia, two hours; New York, three hours; Pittsburgh, four hours. Dickinson takes pride in its campus wellness and professional development programs, offering an array of opportunities to faculty and staff.

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