Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer

Tamus; Kingsville (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) seeks a Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer to lead a comprehensive ethics and compliance program. Reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, the CECO promotes integrity, accountability, transparency, and ethical conduct across the university while ensuring adherence to federal/state laws, system policies, and university rules.

The role oversees risk-based program design, policy development, and monitoring activities, coordinating with System offices and

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic leadership and oversight for the university's ethics and compliance program.
• Develops, implements, and maintains a comprehensive, risk-based compliance program designed to prevent, detect, and address regulatory, operational, and ethical risks.
• Promotes a culture of integrity, accountability, transparency, and ethical conduct throughout the university.
• Chairs the University Compliance Committee, convenes quarterly meetings, and serves as the university representative at Texas A&M University System compliance meetings.
• Provides guidance and recommendations to executive leadership regarding ethics, compliance, governance, and institutional risk matters.
• Manages the day-to-day operations of the university's compliance program.
• Assists with the initiation, development, implementation, maintenance, and revision of policies, procedures, and standards related to compliance activities.
• Maintains responsibility for official university rules and procedures, including the review, development, approval, and revision processes consistent with Texas A&M University System requirements.
• Establishes compliance program objectives, performance measures, and monitoring activities to assess program effectiveness.
• Ensures proper reporting of significant compliance matters to System Ethics and Compliance officials, executive leadership, and other stakeholders as required.
• Conducts periodic compliance risk assessments to identify areas of vulnerability and institutional risk.
• Develops, implements, and monitors corrective action plans to address identified compliance concerns.
• Oversees compliance reviews and monitoring activities with university departments and officials to evaluate adherence to applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
• Identifies compliance trends and emerging risks and recommends mitigation strategies.
• Receives, reviews, and coordinates the investigation and resolution of reports involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, conflicts of interest, fraud, waste, abuse, and other compliance-related concerns.
• Administers and serves as the university coordinator for the EthicsPoint Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Hotline and other reporting mechanisms.
• Collaborates with appropriate university departments and System offices to support effective compliance management and continuous improvement across the institution.

Job description

Job Title

Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer

Agency

Texas A&M University - Kingsville

Department

Chief Administrative Officer

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

Kingsville, Texas

Job Type

Staff

Job Description

About Texas A&M University-Kingsville Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK), the oldest institution of higher learning in South Texas and a proud member of the Texas A&M University System, stands as the region's premier university. TAMUK offers the widest range of academic programs and degrees in South Texas, provides exceptional learning and residential facilities, conducts impactful research, awards substantial scholarships, and has awarded more than 80,000 degrees in the institution's 100-year history. The university is recognized for its unwavering commitment to student success, meaningful research, and deep community engagement. With a welcoming campus culture and strong regional partnerships, TAMUK offers faculty and staff a unique opportunity to make a lasting difference in the lives of students and the broader South Texas region.

Location: The University is located in historic Kingsville, a friendly, safe city of 25,000 that is the home of the legendary King Ranch. Corpus Christi and its beaches are just 40 miles to the northeast, and the border with Mexico is 120 miles to the south at Brownsville or 119 miles to the west at Laredo.

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Position Overview

The Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer (CECO), reporting to the Chief Administrative Officer, provides strategic leadership, direction, and oversight for Texas A&M University-Kingsville's comprehensive ethics and compliance program. The CECO is responsible for proactively promoting a culture of integrity, accountability, transparency, and ethical conduct while ensuring compliance with applicable federal and state laws, Texas A&M University System policies and regulations, accreditation requirements, and university rules and procedures. The position leads institution-wide compliance initiatives, conducts risk assessments, oversees investigations of compliance-related concerns, coordinates compliance monitoring and reporting activities, and serves as a key advisor to executive leadership on ethics, compliance, governance, and institutional risk matters. The CECO collaborates with university departments, Texas A&M University System offices, legal counsel, regulatory agencies, and other stakeholders to support effective compliance management and continuous improvement across the institution.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Ethics and Compliance Leadership

• Provides strategic leadership and oversight for the university's ethics and compliance program.
• Develops, implements, and maintains a comprehensive, risk-based compliance program designed to prevent, detect, and address regulatory, operational, and ethical risks.
• Promotes a culture of integrity, accountability, transparency, and ethical conduct throughout the university.
• Chairs the University Compliance Committee, convenes quarterly meetings, and serves as the university representative at Texas A&M University System compliance meetings.
• Provides guidance and recommendations to executive leadership regarding ethics, compliance, governance, and institutional risk matters.

Compliance Program Administration

• Manages the day-to-day operations of the university's compliance program.
• Assists with the initiation, development, implementation, maintenance, and revision of policies, procedures, and standards related to compliance activities.
• Maintains responsibility for official university rules and procedures, including the review, development, approval, and revision processes consistent with Texas A&M University System requirements.
• Establishes compliance program objectives, performance measures, and monitoring activities to assess program effectiveness.
• Ensures proper reporting of significant compliance matters to System Ethics and Compliance officials, executive leadership, and other stakeholders as required.

Risk Assessment and Monitoring

• Conducts periodic compliance risk assessments to identify areas of vulnerability and institutional risk.
• Develops, implements, and monitors corrective action plans to address identified compliance concerns.
• Oversees compliance reviews and monitoring activities with university departments and officials to evaluate adherence to applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
• Identifies compliance trends and emerging risks and recommends mitigation strategies.

Investigations and Case Management

• Receives, reviews, and coordinates the investigation and resolution of reports involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, conflicts of interest, fraud, waste, abuse, and other compliance-related concerns.
• Administers and serves as the university coordinator for the EthicsPoint Waste, Fraud, and Abuse Hotline and other reporting mechanisms.
• Collaborates with appropriate university departments and System offices t