Interim Compliance Officer (Temporary, 6-12 Months)

5T Management; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Job summary

Five T Management is seeking an experienced Interim Compliance Officer to lead compliance for two portfolios on a fixed-term engagement. You will own the compliance calendar, audits, and agency relationships across 5TM and 5TMSP, market rate and affordable housing.

The role requires deep knowledge of HUD/LIHTC/CHA/IHDA/DOH and strong leadership in audits and regulatory reporting, with the authority to implement policies across sites during the assignment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Five or more years of affordable housing compliance experience.
• Expert working knowledge of HUD, LIHTC, CHA, IHDA, DOH, Section 8, and Fair Housing regulations.
• Demonstrated experience leading audits, regulatory reporting, and compliance programs, not just supporting them.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the judgment to make sound calls independently.
• Comfortable stepping into an active, deadline-driven compliance calendar for a fixed-term engagement.
• Preferred: industry certification (HCCP, COS, BOS, LIHTC), experience leading a compliance team, or experience across multi-agency portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Lead the organization's affordable housing compliance framework across HUD, LIHTC, CHA, IHDA, DOH, and other program rules
• Run our file audit program on schedule, keeping resident eligibility and file compliance accurate across every program
• Own regulatory reporting and agency relationships, including MOR, REAC, NSPIRE, AOC, and IHDA submissions and findings
• Interpret new and changing regulations and translate them into policy our site teams can actually follow
• Deliver compliance training and coaching to property and leadership teams, and track whether it's actually reducing repeat findings
• Identify compliance risk early, elevate it with a recommended fix, and follow corrective action plans through to closure
• Keep compliance dashboards, reporting, and documentation audit-ready at all times
• Represent 5T's standards of integrity and professionalism in every regulator and agency conversation

Skills

Regulatory knowledge

Audits leadership

Regulatory reporting

Communication

Deadline-driven

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Location: Chicago, IL (5T corporate office, with portfolio site visits as needed)
Reports To: Senior Operations Director
Employment Type: Full-time, temporary (approximately 6 months to 1 year, with possible extension), salaried, exempt
Salary Range: $80,000+, commensurate with experience

Who We Are

Five T Management (5TM) and Five T Management Service Provider (5TMSP) are Chicago-based property management companies built on one idea: we manage every property like we own it. Together we oversee more than 3,500 households across market rate and affordable housing programs, including LIHTC, HUD, CHA, IHDA, PBV, PRA, and NOAH. Our standard is never "good enough." It's always higher than what's required.

About the Role

You know the regulations cold. You've just never had the room to run the whole program yourself.

For the next several months, you will. We need an experienced compliance leader to step into our Interim Compliance Officer seat while our current Compliance Officer is out on leave. This isn't a watered-down version of the job. You'll own the same compliance calendar, the same audits, and the same agency relationships across our full portfolio, both 5TM and 5TMSP, market rate and affordable. When our current officer returns, you'll walk away having led compliance for two portfolios on your own, with the track record to prove it.

What You'll Do

• Lead the organization's affordable housing compliance framework across HUD, LIHTC, CHA, IHDA, DOH, and other program rules
• Run our file audit program on schedule, keeping resident eligibility and file compliance accurate across every program
• Own regulatory reporting and agency relationships, including MOR, REAC, NSPIRE, AOC, and IHDA submissions and findings
• Interpret new and changing regulations and translate them into policy our site teams can actually follow
• Deliver compliance training and coaching to property and leadership teams, and track whether it's actually reducing repeat findings
• Identify compliance risk early, elevate it with a recommended fix, and follow corrective action plans through to closure
• Keep compliance dashboards, reporting, and documentation audit-ready at all times
• Represent 5T's standards of integrity and professionalism in every regulator and agency conversation

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Five or more years of affordable housing compliance experience
• Expert working knowledge of HUD, LIHTC, CHA, IHDA, DOH, Section 8, and Fair Housing regulations
• Demonstrated experience leading audits, regulatory reporting, and compliance programs, not just supporting them
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the judgment to make sound calls independently
• Comfortable stepping into an active, deadline-driven compliance calendar for a fixed-term engagement
• Preferred: industry certification (HCCP, COS, BOS, LIHTC), experience leading a compliance team, or experience across multi-agency portfolios

Why Work With Us

• Competitive compensation: $80,000+, commensurate with experience
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid time off
• A real leadership assignment, not a placeholder role: full ownership of a two-portfolio compliance program for the length of the engagement

Five T Management is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, religious dress or grooming, genetic information, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, arrest or conviction record, or any other status protected by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.