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Associate Director of Compliance, Employee Benefits

The Baldwin Group

(Remote / Tampa FL)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Review, digest and translate regulatory and legal developments for the benefit of clients and colleagues.
• Develop client-facing educational and instructive collateral to apprise clients of their obligations and responsibilities under federal and certain state and local laws, regulations, statutes, and ordinances
• Review and respond to field inquiries related to the administration of employee benefits and the related employment and labor law obligations and responsibilities, occurring at the national, regional, and local levels.
• Conduct seminars, boot camps, informational and educational webcasts, and speak at national conferences on topics related to total reward platforms and specifically, employer-provided workplace leave and worker accommodations.
• Coordinate with other compliance teams members throughout the country to complete large-scale projects, and to coordinate day-to-day workflow and project operations.
• Proactively and independently manage the firm’s compliance-related activities and duties for an assigned geographic region of the United States, or for a designated partnership or partnerships.
• Offer mentoring and guidance for the benefit of junior compliance specialists by offering project management skills, leadership in drafting and public speaking opportunities, and guidance to legal and industry happenings.
• Assist the director in other programs, activities, and requirements that may arise in the service of the firm or the compliance division.

Essential experience for the qualified candidate:

• A minimum of three (3) to eight (8) years prior workplace experience in a compliance or related employee benefits or HR related advisory function for a private company, an insurance broker, an insurer, or an industry related resource.
• Demonstration of ability to adopt to a quickly changing workplace environment through direct and demonstrable experience in dealing with one or more of the following:
• Human resources or legal organizational operations or change management planning and related activities.
• Development and implementation of global, national or regional marketing and/or information campaigns.
• Employee benefits related design, planning, implementation, administration or termination related workplace activities.
• Direct experience in the performance due diligence activities or other operations related to, or arising in connection with, organizational mergers and acquisitions.
• Logistics and related information delivery related workplace experience, either in an operations and/or leadership role; and/or

Law firm, clerkship, internship, and/or legal department workplace experience, particularly respecting activities related to employee benefits law, general employment and labor law, or privacy and security related laws and regulations.

• A minimum of three (3) to eight (8) years of workplace experience related to interpretation and administration of employer obligations arising under federal, regional, state, or local laws, ordinances, statutes, and regulations, preferably with direct experience related to one or more of the following:
  1. ERISA;
  2. HIPAA;
  3. COBRA;
  4. MHPAEA;
  5. IRC Sections 105(h) and 125;
  6. State-level employee benefits related statutory provisions,
  7. State or federal medical insurance-related regulation and/or policy.
• A minimum of two (2) years of workplace experience communicating and/or conducing contract or agreement negotiations with external and/or internal partners, including company leadership, colleagues, clients, third-party vendors, insurance carriers, and/or third-party administrators.   
• Experience receiving and responding to confidential or private internal and/or external communications. 
• Educational acumen and other knowledge gained through secondary, post-secondary, or other professional learning and education related activities (examples may include associate’s degrees, bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, paralegal certifications, juris doctorates, and other professional learning and education certifications, designations, or other related course work).
• A strong sense of self, paired with the ability to effectively manage competing workplace expectations and obligations with skill, tact and grace.

Educational Requirement:

Juris Doctor / Doctor of Law degree or paralegal certificate preferred but education requirement may be waived upon demonstration of satisfactory work-related experience.

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