Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance/Privacy Officer - National Jewish Health

Position Summary
The VP, General Counsel, and Chief Compliance/Privacy Officer (VP-GC/CCPO) serves as the primary legal advisor and strategic leader for the institution. This executive oversees the legal, corporate compliance, privacy, research regulatory affairs, and enterprise risk management functions. The VP-GC/CCPO provides expert legal counsel, ensures regulatory compliance, promotes a culture of ethics, and mitigates risk to support the institution's mission of excellence in patient care, education, and research.

Essential Duties
General Counsel, Strategic Business Partner and Department Leader

1. Serve as the principal legal advisor and a strategic partner to the executive leadership team, contributing to institutional decision-making and policy development.
2. Oversee all legal matters, including healthcare law, research compliance, labor and employment, contracts, litigation, intellectual property, governance, and regulatory affairs.
3. Provide guidance on legal risks and opportunities affecting the institution.
4. Lead and manage the Office of General Counsel, including outside legal counsel engagement.
5. Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
6. Build, mentor, lead high-performing teams across the legal, compliance, privacy, and risk management functions.

Corporate Compliance and Privacy

1. Develop, implement, and oversee a comprehensive compliance program to ensure adherence to federal, state, and local regulations, as well as internal policies.
2. Act as a trusted resource for compliance education and training for staff, faculty, and leadership.
3. Monitor and address emerging regulatory requirements and enforcement trends.
4. Serve as the institution's Chief Privacy Officer, ensuring compliance with all applicable data privacy laws, including HIPAA, GDPR, and other state and federal regulations.
5. Lead the institution's response to privacy breaches, investigations, and reporting requirements.
6. Promote privacy best practices across clinical, research, and administrative operations.

Research Regulatory Affairs

1. Appointed by the CEO to serve at the Institutional Official (IO). The IO is responsible for ensuring that the NJH HRPP, Institutional Review Board(s) (IRB(s)) and the Animal Welfare Program including the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) have the resources and support necessary to comply with all organizational policies, laws, and regulations.
2. Oversee research compliance and regulatory functions, ensuring adherence to IRB, IACUC, and other regulatory requirements governing human and animal research.
3. Ensure alignment with funding agencies and federal research policies (e.g., NIH, NSF, FDA).

Enterprise Risk Management

1. Responsible for the oversight of the enterprise risk management program to ensure ongoing assessment of significant risks confronting the organization and the implementation of standardized means for mitigating, overseeing, and reporting on these risks.
2. Manages the institution’s corporate insurance program.

Competencies

1. Accountability:Accepts full responsibility for self and contribution as a team member; displays honesty and truthfulness; confronts problems quickly; displays a strong commitment to organizational success and inspires others to commit to goals; demonstrates a commitment to National Jewish Health.
2. Informing and Communicating: Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
3. Talent Management: Clearly establishes and communicates expectations and accountabilities; monitors and evaluates performance; provides effective feedback and coaching; identifies development needs and helps employees address them to achieve optimal performance.
4. Building Strategic Relationships: Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one’s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.
5. Decision Making: Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
6. Managing Conflict: Dealing effectively with others in an antagonistic situation; using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people. Addresses conflicts by focusing on the issues at hand to develop effective solutions when disputes or disagreements occur; helps others resolve conflicts by providing impartial mediation when needed.
7. Impact and Influence: Using appropriate interpersonal styles and techniques to gain acceptance of ideas or plans; modifying one’s own behavior to accommodate tasks, situations, and individuals involved. The ability to generate support from others to achieve desired business outcomes. It also involves taking advantage of opportunities to make a difference and have an impact. When used well, the intended outcome of this competency is the creation of goodwill, trust, and respect while motivating people to want to follow you even when they do not have to.
8. Attention to Detail: Accomplishing tasks by considering all areas involved, no matter how small; showing concern for all aspects of the job; accurately checking processes and tasks; being watchful over a period of time. Setting high standards of performance for self and others; assuming responsibility and accountability for successfully completing assignments or tasks; self-imposing standards of excellence rather than having standards imposed.
9. Building Trust: Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one’s intentions and those of the organization.
10. Business Acumen: Using economic, financial, market, and industry data to understand and improve business results; using one’s understanding of major business functions, industry trends, and own organization’s position to contribute to effective business strategies and tactics.
11. Champion of Change: Facilitating the implementation and acceptance of change within the workplace. Cooperates with others to accomplish common goals; works with employees within and across his/her department to achieve shared goals; treats others with dignity and respect and maintains a friendly demeanor; values the contributions of others.
12. Creativity and Innovation: Applies creative problem-solving skills to develop solutions to problems; recognizes and demonstrates the value in taking “smart” risks and learning from mistakes; develops multiple alternatives and understands the feasibility of each; effectively shares and implements his/her ideas. Generates innovative solutions in work situations; tries different and novel ways to deal with work problems and opportunities.
13. Perseverance/Resourcefulness: Accesses and utilizes available resources inside and outside the company.

Supervisory or Managerial Responsibility
Manages 1-10 employees

Travel
None

Core Values

1. Be available to work as scheduled and report to work on time.
2. Be willing to accept supervision and work well with others.
3. Be well groomed, appropriately for your role and wear ID Badge visibly.
4. Be in compliance with all departmental and institutional policies, the Employee Handbook, Code of Conduct and completes NetLearning by due date annually.
5. Fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and individual differences are valued and leveraged to achieve the vision and mission of the institution.
6. Adheres to safe working practices and at all times follows all institutional and departmental safety policies and procedures.
7. Wears appropriate PPE as outlined by the infection control policies and procedures.
8. Demonstrates compliance with all state, federal and all other regulatory agency requirements.

Minimum Qualifications

1. Education: Juris Doctor Degree (JD) required.
2. Work Experience: A minimum 10 years Academic Medical Center, higher education, health care system experience required; Knowledge and experience working with federal research regulations.
3. Special Training, Certification or Licensure: Knowledge and experience in business and/or organizational ethics, interpreting and managing federal and state compliance regulations in a health care setting. Specifically, in, fraud and abuse laws, Medicare Conditions of Participation, ADA, ACA sec. 1557, OLAW, HIPAA, FDA, NIH and OHRP. Proven track record of leading and managing divisions and/or departments.

Salary Range: $237,296.23 - $313,824.27

Benefits
At National Jewish Health, we recognize that our outstanding faculty and staff are the essence of our organization. For every aspect of health care, our employees are our greatest asset. With that in mind, we have designed a valuable, comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees and their families.

• Comprehensive Medical Coverage: Multiple Cigna health plans for Colorado, regional office and remote employees. Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) available to pair with some plans.
• Paid Time Off: Generous PTO accruals to use for vacation and sick days, and six paid holidays, all compliant with Colorado state sick leave regulations.
• Dental & Vision Plans: Coverage effective the first of the month after hire.
• Retirement Savings: 403(b) plan with employer contributions after two years.
• Wellness Incentives: Earn up to $200 annually for preventive health activities.
• Tuition Reimbursement: Up to $5,250 annually for full-time and part-time employees.
• Child Care Assistance: Childcare Flex Spending Account (FSA) with annual employer contribution.
• Loan Forgiveness: Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer.
• Disability & Life Insurance: Employer-paid plans and optional buy-up choices.
• Voluntary Benefits: Full suite of coverage options such as Accident, Hospital Indemnity and Legal Plan
• Exclusive Discounts: Savings on local services, insurance, and RTD bus passes.

Application Deadline: This position will be open for a minimum of three days and until a top applicant is identified.