Founded in 1863, Saint Mary's College of California is a residential institution in the Moraga Valley, 20 miles east of San Francisco, rooted in the Catholic, Lasallian, and Liberal Arts traditions. Enrolling more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students, the College integrates liberal and professional education within a mission shaped by the De La Salle Christian Brothers. Known for academic excellence, innovation, and responsiveness, Saint Mary's fosters shared inquiry, meaningful student engagement, and a strong commitment to diversity, leadership, and service.
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Job Title
Director, Compliance
Job Summary
This position will support the College's NCAA monitoring and compliance efforts, ensuring facilitation of procedures regarding the Department of Athletics compliance policies, the NCAA and WCC bylaws, and providing support for the compliance efforts of all coaches, student-athletes, administration and outside entities. This position will be directly responsible for monitoring the eligibility of student-athletes as well as prospective student-athletes as it relates to academic eligibility, amateurism, and outside competition. As such, this position will serve as a liaison to the Academic Misconduct Office. This position will provide rules education in all areas, with an emphasis on recruiting regulations. This position will track student-athlete employment, playing season regulations, and complimentary admissions. This position will oversee Playing and Practice Seasons legislation and oversee a student worker as assist in this effort.
Essential Responsibilities
Rules Education
Provides rules education presentations at Department meetings, lead monthly compliance education meetings, and provide education to smaller groups on an 'as needed' basis.
Meets annually with campus departments (admissions, financial aid, campus housing, student life, business) to provide NCAA rules education, as applicable.
Creates and disseminates monthly compliance newsletters for athletics staff, bi-annual compliance newsletters for student-athletes and annual newsletters for parent s of student -athletes, athletics boosters and season ticket holders.
Updates the compliance website with NCAA, WCC and institutional rules education documents.
Conducts compliance orientations with new coaches and staff.
Conducts the annual NCAA beginning of the year meeting for all student-athletes.
Conducts targeted rules education to various sport programs depending on level of perceived risk with regards to potential rules violations.
Conducts required rules education as a result of NCAA violations.
Maintains a database of current rules education tipsheets for Compliance Department dissemination
Initial Eligibility, Continuing Eligibility
Directly responsible for monitoring the eligibility of prospective student- athletes during the recruitment phase until full-time enrollment at the college.
Acts as institutional contact for the NCAA Eligibility Center.
Responsible for approving all recruiting visits and maintaining visit paperwork.
Provides rules education regarding NCAA and WCC eligibility requirements to all prospective student-athletes who take recruiting visits.
Will act as liaison to Academic Support in monitoring the continuing eligibility of enrolled student-athletes as it relates to academic eligibility, amateurism, and outside competition.
Coordinates the Continuing Eligibility Certification Committee. Provides relevant interpretations to the Committee on Bylaw 14 ramifications with continuing eligibility members. Provides rules education to Committee on Bylaw 14 rules, proposals, and changes.
Monitor Regulations and Compliance (large emphasis on Bylaw 13 and recruiting)
Ensure that Athletics has systems in place to achieve compliance by development of compliance management systems (such as training, policies, procedures, monitoring and auditing, among others) across all functions.
On a day-to-day basis, will maintain and monitor various compliance records for each sport, as assigned, to ensure rules compliance with NCAA and WCC legislation. Perform spot check audits of compliance records as needed.
Conduct bi-annual meetings with each assigned coach/program to discuss the compliance efforts of their sport and assign tasks for the upcoming year.
Provide NCAA and WCC rules interpretations to coaches, student-athletes, athletic department staff, and institutional departments.
Employment/ Student-athlete Amateurism/Awards & Benefits. This position is directly responsible for ensuring student-athletes are compliant with NCAA employment rules.
Reviewing, monitoring and educating student-athletes and coaches on amateurism rules related to student-athlete employment requests, promotional requests, disclosure of name. image, and likeness contracts.
Ensuring sport teams and student-athletes are issued awards and benefits in accordance with NCAA Bylaw 16.
Playing Season Set Up and Review, Schedule Approval, Complimentary Admissions, and Rental Requests
This position has the responsibility of overseeing all scheduling and playing and practice season approval. This includes assisting coaches with playing season set-up and coordinating the approval of countable athletically related activities by student-athletes and the compliance office.
This position also coordinates the complimentary admissions process with the Director of Tickets, as well as providing compliance approval for all facility rental requests.
The position will provide rules education to the involved parties as needed.
Camps and Clinics
Educate, approve, monitor all regulations with regards to institutional camps and clinics.
Other Duties as Assigned
Experience and Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree required
Experience: Minimum of three (3) years of experience in a NCAA Compliance office (preferably Division 1) or related area.
Skills/Abilities:
Strong written, verbal and computer skills required
Experience in policy analysis and/or legal briefing preferred
Thorough knowledge of the NCAA rules and regulations
Thorough knowledge of the Compliance Assistant software and NCAA Legislative Database required
Ability to interpret and apply NCAA rules and regulations
Ability to compose and appropriately format correspondence and reports.
Occasional evening and weekend work will be required.
Licenses & Certifications:
N/A
Application Review & Recruitment Timeline This position is part of a continuous recruitment and will remain open until filled. The first review of applications will begin on May 15, 2026. To be considered in the initial review, please submit your application before this date.
Interviews are tentatively scheduled to take place during the week of May 18, 2026.
Additional application materials may be reviewed on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Anticipated Hiring Range The anticipated hiring range for this position is $70,304 to $80,000. Placement is expected to be within this range based on qualifications and experience.
The foundation for everything we do at Saint Mary's is our mission: To probe deeply the mystery of existence by cultivating the ways of knowing and the arts of thinking. Recognizing that the paths to knowledge are many, Saint Mary's College of California offers a diverse curriculum that includes the humanities, arts, sciences, social sciences, education, business administration and nursing, serving traditional students and adult learners in both undergraduate and graduate programs. As an institution where the liberal arts inform and enrich all areas of learning, it places special importance on fostering the intellectual skills and habits of mind, which liberate persons to probe deeply the mystery of existence and live authentically in response to the truths they discover. This liberation is achieved as faculty and students, led by wonder about the nature of reality, look twice, ask why, seek not merely facts but fundamental principles, strive for an integration of all knowledge and express themselves precisely and eloquently. To affirm and foster the Christian understanding of the human person which animates the educational mission of the Catholic Church. Saint Mary's College holds... that the mystery which inspires wonder about the nature of existence is revealed in the person of Jesus Christ giving a transcendent meaning to creation and human existence. Nourished by its Christian faith, the College understands the intellectual and spiritual journeys of the human person to be inextricably connected. It promotes the dialogue of faith and reason: it builds community among its members through the celebration of the church's sacramental life; it defends the goodness, dignity and freedom of each person, and fosters sensitivity to social and ethical concerns. Recognizing that all those who sincerely quest for truth contribute to and enhance its stature as a Catholic institution of higher learning, Saint Mary's welcomes members from its own and other traditions, inviting them to collaborate in fulfilling the spiritual mission of the College. To create a student-centered educational community whose members support one another with mutual understanding and respect. As a Lasallian college, Saint Mary's holds that students are given to its care by God and that teachers grow spiritually and personally when their work is motivated by faith and zeal. The College seeks students, faculty, administrators and staff from different social, economic and cultural backgrounds who come together to grow in knowledge, wisdom and love. A distinctive mark of a Lasallian school is its awareness of the consequences of economic and social injustice and its commitment to the poor. Its members learn to live "their responsibility to share their goods and their service with those who are in need, a responsibility based on the union of all men and women in the world today and on a clear understanding of the meaning of Christianity." (From: The Brothers of the Christian Schools in the World Today: A Declaration).The foundation for everything we do at Saint Mary's is our mission: To probe deeply the mystery of existence by cultivating the ways of knowing and the arts of thinking. Recognizing that the paths to knowledge are many, Saint Mary's College of California offers a diverse curriculum that includes the humanities, arts, sciences, social sciences, education, business administration and nursing, serving traditional students and adult learners in both undergraduate and graduate programs. As an institution where the liberal arts inform and enrich all areas of learning, it places special importance on fostering the intellectual skills and habits of mind, which liberate persons to probe deeply the mystery of existence and live authentically in response to the truths they discover. This liberation is achieved as faculty and students, led by wonder about the nature of reality, look twice, ask why, seek not merely facts but fundamental principles, strive for an integration of all knowledge and express themselves precisely and eloquently. To affirm and foster the Christian understanding of the human person which animates the educational mission of the Catholic Church. Saint Mary's College holds that the mystery which inspires wonder about the nature of existence is revealed in the person of Jesus Christ giving a transcendent meaning to creation and human existence. Nourished by its Christian faith, the College understands the intellectual and spiritual journeys of the human person to be inextricably connected. It promotes the dialogue of faith and reason: it builds community among its members through the celebration of the church's sacramental life; it defends the goodness, dignity and freedom of each person, and fosters sensitivity to social and ethical concerns. Recognizing that all those who sincerely quest for truth contribute to and enhance its stature as a Catholic institution of higher learning, Saint Mary's welcomes members from its own and other traditions, inviting them to collaborate in fulfilling the spiritual mission of the College. To create a student-centered educational community whose members support one another with mutual understanding and respect. As a Lasallian college, Saint Mary's holds that students are given to its care by God and that teachers grow spiritually and personally when their work is motivated by faith and zeal. The College seeks students, faculty, administrators and staff from different social, economic and cultural backgrounds who come together to grow in knowledge, wisdom and love. A distinctive mark of a Lasallian school is its awareness of the consequences of economic and social injustice and its commitment to the poor. Its members learn to live "their responsibility to share their goods and their service with those who are in need, a responsibility based on the union of all men and women in the world today and on a clear understanding of the meaning of Christianity." (From: The Brothers of the Christian Schools in the World Today: A Declaration).