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At Vertex Education we are a team of high achievers, courageous leaders, and passionate believers in changing lives through education. As a purpose-led education services provider, our mission is destined to benefit many and yet it starts with just one person inspired to work together with us to make a memorable and meaningful difference for our clients, schools, students, and communities. Be the one who makes a difference—with us.
Vertex is seeking a Director of Compliance Services to architect and launch a centralized, national compliance service for our school clients. This role is responsible for transforming a fragmented and inefficient compliance function into a centralized, standardized, and scalable system that ensures timely, accurate reporting for our clients across jurisdictions.
Your mission is to design and implement a well-documented, repeatable operational playbook that eliminates bottlenecks, enables proactive risk management, and allows our teams to execute consistency and confidence. With a strong systems-builder mindset, you will prioritize process standardization over bespoke solutions, leveraging ERP, reporting, and project management technology platforms to deliver immediate value.
Ultimately, you will build a profitable, efficient, and scalable compliance service line—one that directly supports our mission of changing lives through education by helping schools operate with excellence.
Responsibilities / Essential Functions:
1. Service Architecture & Process Standardization:
Analyze existing compliance activities across Vertex’s regions and client portfolios to identify patterns and opportunities for a single, repeatable national process.
Design, document, and maintain definitive Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for client compliance reporting.
Build and manage compliance and project management templates and collaboration models to ensure consistent execution and visibility across regions.
Develop and deliver training materials to enable consistent adoption of standardized workflows.
Partner with the Technology team to define data requirements, reporting needs, and system integrations that support compliance workflows across ERP, project management, and collaboration platforms.
2. National Framework & Service Line Leadership:
Define and execute a multi-year strategy for the national compliance service line, including standardized offerings and pricing.
Evaluate non-standard compliance requests and establish clear scoping and pricing for out-of-scope work.
Lead expansion into new states by developing state-specific addendums to the national framework.
Enable service line growth through collaboration with regional heads, school finance professionals, and school partnerships teams.
Lead the service line to achieve profitability targets by managing its budget and applying continuous process improvement principles.
3. Operations & Team Enablement:
Oversee execution of compliance work to ensure consistent use of standardized processes and technology.
Act as the escalation point and crisis manager for compliance breaches, leading remediation and client communication.
Establish communication cadences, role clarity, and accountability across cross-functional teams.
Create a continuous improvement loop to refine workflows, documentation, and tools.
Partner with Technology to identify automation opportunities, refine system configurations, and ensure compliance platforms evolve with the service line.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Public Administration, or a related field.
Demonstrated ability to standardize complex, multi-entity, or multi-jurisdiction processes into a repeatable, scalable operating model.
Strong systems and operations orientation, with the ability to translate ambiguous, fragmented work into structured processes, clear ownership, and documented SOPs.
Experience operating in client-facing environments, including scoping work, managing expectations, and making tradeoffs between standardization and customization.
People leadership experience, with the ability to build, develop, and align teams around new ways of working.
Strong working knowledge of compliance or regulated reporting environments, with the ability to ask the right questions, identify risk, and design processes that ensure accuracy and timeliness.
Proven ability to lead complex system implementations or service-line buildouts from concept through execution.
Ability to translate operational needs into clear technology requirements and drive results in partnership with IT using existing platforms (e.g., ERP, project management, and collaboration tools).
Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s Degree in Business, Finance, Public Administration, or a related field.
Experience in K–12 education, charter schools, or school finance, particularly in environments with state-specific compliance and reporting requirements.
Experience with California charter school compliance requirements and reporting frameworks.
Familiarity with key funding and reporting structures such as Title programs and state budget processes.
Experience building or managing external-facing professional services, and contributing to the commercial performance of a service or program (e.g., scoping, pricing, margin management, or resource planning).
Proficiency with Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Teams) and workflow tools (e.g., Asana), with working familiarity with ERP or financial management systems used to support compliance reporting and operational workflows.
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***Be excited to be a part of our team and grow your career with us!***
Be the one who enables us to positively impact over 258,000 students across multiple states while driving our growth forward so we can enrich even more lives. Be the one who helps us achieve excellence for over 226 schools that we support with academics, finance, technology, human resources, communications, marketing, facilities, construction, and food services. Be the one who is a diverse thinker, a team player, a smart risk taker, an innovator, and a difference maker by encouraging others to climb higher and reach farther to further education.
Be yourself surrounded by wonderful people who care about you, value your unique skills, and lift you up.
Be supported in your work by caring leaders and team members who want you to succeed.
Be empowered to make a difference and climb higher and reach farther to change lives through education.
Be well in all aspects of your life from your physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing to your finances.
Enjoy industry-leading pay, rewards, referral bonuses, with unlimited flexible paid time-off for performance.
Be able to care for your health and your family with comprehensive medical, dental and vision benefits and invest in your future with 401(k) plans with a 6% employer match on your contributions.
Enhance your growth and development with mentoring and money to take training classes.
Thrive in a welcoming, supportive, and inclusive environment where we treat others with fairness and respect, celebrate diversity, and elevate equality and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer.
Be the one who makes a difference!
With an innovative mind, a hungry heart, and engaging spirit you can change lives through education. Be a part of Vertex Education and let’s make a difference together. Apply Today!