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Summary: The Director of Operations and Compliance leads the operational and compliance functions of Alianza Youth Services. Reporting to the Division Director, the Director owns the systems, standards, and controls that keep every Alianza program running well and in full compliance with funder requirements. The Director has authority to escalate compliance and child-safety concerns directly to the Chief Program Officer and Human Resources.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Operational Leadership
- Set operational policies, standards, and protocols for all Alianza programs. Ensure they are applied consistently across sites. Monitor progress and support training staff to support operations and improvements for these sites.
- Train team on new and existing standard operating procedures across the division, including invoicing, timekeeping, facilities, and supplies. Ensure these systems are in place, followed, and audited regularly; day-to-day processing is carried out by the division.
- Oversee the monthly reconciliation of program budgets against expenditures, and work with assigned Finance staff to review and adjust staff allocations appropriately. Take necessary steps to maintain compliance and mitigate risk for the agency.
- At the direction of the Division Director, lead annual operating planning for the division, including review of workshops, staffing coordination, resource allocation, and overall readiness for the program year.
- Work with team to identify data needs, and in partnership with the Data and Compliance team to ensure that tracking and collection exists for enrollment, attendance, spending, staffing, and contract deliverables.
Compliance and Contract Management
- Maintain a current roster of staffing and audit staffing to ensure proper clearance, credentialing, and training requirements are met and documented.
- Ensure the timely preparation, review, and submission of all fiscal and program reports internally and externally to funders. Maintain a division-wide compliance and reporting calendar.
- Maintain continuous audit and monitoring readiness across all sites, including current files, documentation, and compliance records. Lead the division’s response to scheduled and unannounced visits, coordinating on-site staff and preparation, so each visit runs smoothly.
- Develop and enforce corrective action plans when a site or program falls short of contractual or regulatory requirements.
- Oversee incident reporting and escalation. Ensure incidents are reported to internal and external stakeholders on time and handled appropriately.
- Conduct regular internal site reviews and report compliance on risks and trends to the Division Director and Chief Program Officer, working with the Executive Office on investigations as needed.
Fiscal and Contract Operations
- In partnership with the Contract Management, Development, and divisional leadership teams, lead contract renewals and new proposals for the division, ensuring program design, budgets, and deliverables are realistic and compliant.
- Review and approve all fiscal and program reports and funder submissions before they leave the division, confirming that division-level feedback has been fully incorporated.
Cross-Divisional Liaison and Senior Leadership Partnership
- Provide regular, candid updates to the Division Director and senior leadership on operational performance, compliance risk, and progress against improvement plans.
- Work with leaders in other CCCS divisions to share practices, align systems, and support shared initiatives.
- Provide back-up support to the Division Director: co-facilitate monthly division meetings; help prepare quarterly reports Chief Program Officer and CCCS CEO for board reports and assist with the preparation of other funder reports. Represent the division at funder meetings in the Division Director's absence; and ensure division participation in agency events.
- Analyze program and funding trends, and recommend new initiatives, expansions, or changes to the Division Director and Chief Program Officer.
- Lead the division's operational contributions to quarterly Board of Directors reports and annual corporate and financial reports.
- Supervise the Directors of Elementary and High School Programs, and with the Division Director set expectations, hold regular supervision, complete performance evaluations, and support their professional development.
- Oversee planning, staffing, quality assurance, budgeting, and community relations for assigned programs, and provide guidance to program directors and senior program staff.
- Build a working culture across the division where deadlines are met, problems are raised early, and staff understand how their work connects to the broader strategic plan for the agency.
Requirements
Qualifications
Education and/or experience required:
- Bachelor's degree in public administration, nonprofit management, business administration, education, social work, or a related field. Master's degree (MPA, MBA, MSW, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- A minimum of eight to ten years of progressively responsible experience in nonprofit or government-funded program operations, including at least five years in a senior management role supervising managers.
- Demonstrated experience managing compliance for government contracts, preferably DYCD-funded youth programs.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing staff background clearance, onboarding, and child-safety compliance in youth-serving programs, including State Central Register (SCR) clearances and related City and State requirements.
- A track record of assessing and rebuilding operational systems, processes, and internal controls in a multi-site organization.
- Experience in strategic planning, program portfolio review, or sustainability planning. Experience guiding a program or division through growth, restructuring, or a change in funding is strongly preferred.
Skills, Licensing, and Other requirements:
- Strong command of program budgeting, cost allocation, and budget-to-actual review.
- Working knowledge of government contract requirements, audits, and corrective action planning.
- Ability to build practical procedures, trackers, and reporting tools, and to get staff to use them consistently.
- Sound judgment and discretion; able to raise concerns early and directly with senior leadership while maintaining productive working relationships.
- Ability to work effectively within a shared reporting structure, balancing direction from the Division Director and the Senior Leadership Team.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Outlook, advanced proficiency in Excel, and familiarity with DYCD Connect, Salesforce, and other systems; comfortable learning new data, HR, and payroll platforms.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to convene and lead meetings and to present to executives and the Board.
- Proven team leader who can manage multiple complex priorities with attention to detail, accuracy, and minimal supervision.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.
Summary: The Director of Operations and Compliance leads the operational and compliance functions of Alianza Youth Services. Reporting to the Division Director, the Director owns the systems, standards, and controls that keep every Alianza program running well and in full compliance with funder requirements. The Director has authority to escalate compliance and child-safety concerns directly to the Chief Program Officer and Human Resources.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
Operational Leadership
- Set operational policies, standards, and protocols for all Alianza programs. Ensure they are applied consistently across sites. Monitor progress and support training staff to support operations and improvements for these sites.
- Train team on new and existing standard operating procedures across the division, including invoicing, timekeeping, facilities, and supplies. Ensure these systems are in place, followed, and audited regularly; day-to-day processing is carried out by the division.
- Oversee the monthly reconciliation of program budgets against expenditures, and work with assigned Finance staff to review and adjust staff allocations appropriately. Take necessary steps to maintain compliance and mitigate risk for the agency.
- At the direction of the Division Director, lead annual operating planning for the division, including review of workshops, staffing coordination, resource allocation, and overall readiness for the program year.
- Work with team to identify data needs, and in partnership with the Data and Compliance team to ensure that tracking and collection exists for enrollment, attendance, spending, staffing, and contract deliverables.
Compliance and Contract Management
- Maintain a current roster of staffing and audit staffing to ensure proper clearance, credentialing, and training requirements are met and documented.
- Ensure the timely preparation, review, and submission of all fiscal and program reports internally and externally to funders. Maintain a division-wide compliance and reporting calendar.
- Maintain continuous audit and monitoring readiness across all sites, including current files, documentation, and compliance records. Lead the division’s response to scheduled and unannounced visits, coordinating on-site staff and preparation, so each visit runs smoothly.
- Develop and enforce corrective action plans when a site or program falls short of contractual or regulatory requirements.
- Oversee incident reporting and escalation. Ensure incidents are reported to internal and external stakeholders on time and handled appropriately.
- Conduct regular internal site reviews and report compliance on risks and trends to the Division Director and Chief Program Officer, working with the Executive Office on investigations as needed.
Fiscal and Contract Operations
- In partnership with the Contract Management, Development, and divisional leadership teams, lead contract renewals and new proposals for the division, ensuring program design, budgets, and deliverables are realistic and compliant.
- Review and approve all fiscal and program reports and funder submissions before they leave the division, confirming that division-level feedback has been fully incorporated.
Cross-Divisional Liaison and Senior Leadership Partnership
- Provide regular, candid updates to the Division Director and senior leadership on operational performance, compliance risk, and progress against improvement plans.
- Work with leaders in other CCCS divisions to share practices, align systems, and support shared initiatives.
- Provide back-up support to the Division Director: co-facilitate monthly division meetings; help prepare quarterly reports Chief Program Officer and CCCS CEO for board reports and assist with the preparation of other funder reports. Represent the division at funder meetings in the Division Director's absence; and ensure division participation in agency events.
- Analyze program and funding trends, and recommend new initiatives, expansions, or changes to the Division Director and Chief Program Officer.
- Lead the division's operational contributions to quarterly Board of Directors reports and annual corporate and financial reports.
- Supervise the Directors of Elementary and High School Programs, and with the Division Director set expectations, hold regular supervision, complete performance evaluations, and support their professional development.
- Oversee planning, staffing, quality assurance, budgeting, and community relations for assigned programs, and provide guidance to program directors and senior program staff.
- Build a working culture across the division where deadlines are met, problems are raised early, and staff understand how their work connects to the broader strategic plan for the agency.
Requirements
Qualifications
Education and/or experience required:
- Bachelor's degree in public administration, nonprofit management, business administration, education, social work, or a related field. Master's degree (MPA, MBA, MSW, or equivalent) strongly preferred.
- A minimum of eight to ten years of progressively responsible experience in nonprofit or government-funded program operations, including at least five years in a senior management role supervising managers.
- Demonstrated experience managing compliance for government contracts, preferably DYCD-funded youth programs.
- Demonstrated experience overseeing staff background clearance, onboarding, and child-safety compliance in youth-serving programs, including State Central Register (SCR) clearances and related City and State requirements.
- A track record of assessing and rebuilding operational systems, processes, and internal controls in a multi-site organization.
- Experience in strategic planning, program portfolio review, or sustainability planning. Experience guiding a program or division through growth, restructuring, or a change in funding is strongly preferred.
Skills, Licensing, and Other requirements:
- Strong command of program budgeting, cost allocation, and budget-to-actual review.
- Working knowledge of government contract requirements, audits, and corrective action planning.
- Ability to build practical procedures, trackers, and reporting tools, and to get staff to use them consistently.
- Sound judgment and discretion; able to raise concerns early and directly with senior leadership while maintaining productive working relationships.
- Ability to work effectively within a shared reporting structure, balancing direction from the Division Director and the Senior Leadership Team.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word and Outlook, advanced proficiency in Excel, and familiarity with DYCD Connect, Salesforce, and other systems; comfortable learning new data, HR, and payroll platforms.
- Excellent written and verbal communication; able to convene and lead meetings and to present to executives and the Board.
- Proven team leader who can manage multiple complex priorities with attention to detail, accuracy, and minimal supervision.
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) preferred.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of operations and compliance jobs.
- 7 or more years of combined operations and compliance leadership experience
- Demonstrated knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks such as HIPAA, SOX, ISO, or OSHA
- Experience developing and implementing compliance programs, policies, and audit processes
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, operations management, or a related field
- Proficiency with enterprise resource planning systems and compliance management software
- Professional certifications such as Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional or Six Sigma preferred
Tips for Your Director of Operations and Compliance Job Search
Quantify regulatory outcomes on your resume
Hiring managers for this role want to see numbers tied to compliance results, such as audit findings reduced, corrective actions closed, or cost savings from streamlined processes. Vague claims about 'ensuring compliance' won't separate you from the pile.
Tailor your resume to each regulatory framework
A posting that emphasizes HIPAA compliance reads very differently from one focused on SOX or OSHA. Reframe your experience to mirror the specific frameworks named in each job description, even if the underlying work overlapped.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of operations and compliance openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by operational scope, not just title
Some director of operations and compliance roles own a single business unit, while others oversee enterprise-wide programs. Search for terms like 'multi-site,' 'enterprise,' or 'business unit' to match openings to the scope you can actually support.
Prepare a compliance failure story for interviews
Interviewers at this level almost always ask how you handled a regulatory breach, failed audit, or policy gap. Prepare a specific example that walks through your diagnosis, the corrective action you led, and the measurable outcome you achieved.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
In dual-function roles like this one, budget authority, reporting lines for compliance staff, and whether operations includes capital projects are frequently ambiguous. Clarify those boundaries during the offer stage, not after your first week.
Director of Operations and Compliance Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of operations and compliances?
The most active employers for director of operations and compliances right now are JPMorganChase, eBay, and Akima, and the most openings are in Ohio, Florida, and Georgia, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, financial institutions, and large manufacturers tend to maintain the highest ongoing demand for this role.
How many director of operations and compliance jobs are remote?
About 44% of director of operations and compliance openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the dual nature of the role. Compliance program oversight and policy development tend to be the most remote-friendly functions, while operations responsibilities tied to physical facilities or multi-site teams typically require on-site presence.
How do you become a director of operations and compliance?
Most people reach this role by building experience on both sides of the function separately before converging. Start by developing depth in either operations management or regulatory compliance, earn a relevant certification such as Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional or a Lean or Six Sigma credential, and take on cross-functional projects that expose you to the other side. Demonstrating that you can hold accountability for both process performance and regulatory risk simultaneously is what gets you to the director level.
Can you get hired as a director of operations and compliance without direct experience in both functions?
Yes, candidates with deep expertise in one function and demonstrated exposure to the other are hired regularly for this role. If your background is primarily in operations, highlight instances where you led audits, managed regulatory responses, or built policy frameworks. If your background is in compliance, emphasize process improvement initiatives, operational metrics you owned, or cross-departmental programs you led. Employers often prioritize leadership ability and regulatory judgment over a perfectly balanced resume.
What does the director of operations and compliance interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four rounds. The first is typically a screening call with HR or a talent partner focused on background and fit. The second involves the hiring manager and covers operational philosophy, compliance experience, and specific regulatory knowledge. Later rounds often include a panel with senior leadership, legal, or finance stakeholders, and some employers add a case study or presentation asking you to assess a hypothetical compliance gap or operational inefficiency and present a remediation plan.
Where can I find and apply to director of operations and compliance jobs?
You can find and apply to director of operations and compliance jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your background and apply directly to each one.
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