Description:
Compliance Oversight Manager
Salary: $155,000 - $165,000 /annually
Remote with up to 25% travel
The Vander Weele Group is a leading provider of oversight solutions for government-funded programs. We use deep domain expertise to build oversight functions that streamline processes, optimize training, and enhance transparency, so you get high-quality work.
We're seeking a Compliance Oversight Manager/Project Director with a background in civil litigation or a related field to oversee high-priority compliance inspections and reports. This role would manage a team of 15 to 20 individuals responsible for delivering rigorous inspection deliverables. Our ideal candidate comes from a highly regulated industry and, because of this background, possesses an unrelenting attention to detail, confidentiality, accuracy, objectivity, and thoroughness. The program requires the production of a large number of reports able to withstand Congressional, media, and legal scrutiny.
These positions are contingent upon project award.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means transforming inspection data into litigation-ready reports. Within the first 12 months, you will:
- Ensure 100% evidentiary integrity by refining review protocols so that every finding is supported by clear, defensible evidence aligned with agency standards, GAGAS, and QSI&E (Blue Book) standards.
- Eliminate reporting vulnerabilities by applying a litigation-informed lens to all documentation, ensuring it is prepared to survive administrative, political, or legal challenges.
- Reduce remediation cycles by standardizing interview methodologies and documentation standards, catching evidentiary gaps early in the process.
- Synthesize complex data into high-level risk insight reports that provide leadership with actionable recommendations for program improvement.
You’ll Own
- The Technical Vetting Process: Leading the review and validation of inspection reports to ensure absolute adherence to federal requirements.
- Identifying inconsistencies and areas of risk across inspection activities and providing decisive guidance for corrective action.
- Overseeing the resolution of any deficient deliverables to ensure they are corrected accurately and within project timelines.
- Coaching inspection teams on maintaining a high standard of compliance and evidentiary proof.
Requirements:
You’ll Thrive Here If:
- You have experience as a civil litigator or legal project manager and a Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field; a Master’s degree, a Juris Doctor (J.D.) is preferred.
- You have 7-10 years of experience in high-level compliance, legal review, or federal oversight.
- You don't just see a report; you see a record that must be defended.
- You are an expert technical writer. You have a proven ability to turn raw data into persuasive, fact-based narratives.
- You are organized and strong at managing people and are willing to engage in continuous feedback, both providing and receiving feedback, focused on excellent work product.
- You value integrity and mission, but can document facts without bias or preconceptions. You are committed to meaningful oversight that supports the excellence of federal programs.
- You have proven expertise in managing quality control for compliance reports, performance audits, or inspections, preferably under GAGAS and QSI&E (Blue Book) standards.
- You have an advanced ability to identify evidentiary gaps and synthesize raw data into fact-based, persuasive narratives.
- U.S. Citizenship is required.
- You can read and speak English.
- Being bilingual in Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, or French is a plus.
- You must successfully pass a Tier 2 (Moderate Risk) public trust fitness screening.