Director of Legal and Compliance
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- Saint Louis, MO
November 4, 2024
Job Description
Director of Legal and Compliance
At Concordia Plans we care for those who serve by providing excellent retirement, healthcare, and benefit services. We are seeking a seasoned paralegal or attorney to support members of the Concordia Plans legal team and maintain various requirements and documentation related to the benefit plans, programs and operational needs of the organization.
Concordia Plans has a reputation for outstanding culture, most recently winning the 2024 Top Workplaces USA award, with additional special awards for Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits and Purpose & Values. This honor goes to the country’s best employers with high performing people-first cultures. Our recent history of employment excellence also includes being awarded the 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, the Top Workplaces 2021 - 2024 St. Louis Post-Dispatch awards and the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition’s 2020 Business Health Culture Award. Established more than 50 years ago providing service in 6,000 communities throughout the United States, we are mission focused professionals united to care for those caring for our community.
At Concordia Plans we are focused and flexible. Embracing the new normal, pioneering ways to continue to support work life balance in our family first culture. We offer competitive compensation with a benefit package, including a pension plan, 403(b), health insurance at no cost to the employee, and much more. We offer a hybrid environment with three days on-site for leadership positions. With this exciting opportunity you can combine experience, talent, and passion as part of our team at Concordia Plans serving the workers of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod.
General Summary
The Director of Legal and Compliance provides support to members of the Concordia Plans legal team and maintains various requirements and documentation related to the benefit plans, programs and operational needs of the organization.
Essential Job Functions
At Concordia Plans we care for those who serve by providing excellent retirement, healthcare, and benefit services. We are seeking a seasoned paralegal or attorney to support members of the Concordia Plans legal team and maintain various requirements and documentation related to the benefit plans, programs and operational needs of the organization.
Concordia Plans has a reputation for outstanding culture, most recently winning the 2024 Top Workplaces USA award, with additional special awards for Work-Life Flexibility, Compensation & Benefits and Purpose & Values. This honor goes to the country’s best employers with high performing people-first cultures. Our recent history of employment excellence also includes being awarded the 2023 Top Workplaces USA award, the Top Workplaces 2021 - 2024 St. Louis Post-Dispatch awards and the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition’s 2020 Business Health Culture Award. Established more than 50 years ago providing service in 6,000 communities throughout the United States, we are mission focused professionals united to care for those caring for our community.
At Concordia Plans we are focused and flexible. Embracing the new normal, pioneering ways to continue to support work life balance in our family first culture. We offer competitive compensation with a benefit package, including a pension plan, 403(b), health insurance at no cost to the employee, and much more. We offer a hybrid environment with three days on-site for leadership positions. With this exciting opportunity you can combine experience, talent, and passion as part of our team at Concordia Plans serving the workers of The Lutheran Church— Missouri Synod.
General Summary
The Director of Legal and Compliance provides support to members of the Concordia Plans legal team and maintains various requirements and documentation related to the benefit plans, programs and operational needs of the organization.
Essential Job Functions
- Responsible for maintaining CPS plan and benefit program language and documentation.
- Performs legal research and analysis and presents results, including interpretations, findings and recommendations.
- Works with communication and operational teams to develop materials.
- Drafts documents for legal counsel review.
- Reviews legal developments and changes to determine impact on CPS plans and services.
- Acts as liaison for CPS legal team to regulators, vendors and other third parties.
- Produces or assists in production of board materials/resources.
- Performs legal review for communication materials going to plan members and employers.
- Working with staff of other entities, prepares and edits guides and other materials.
- Solves challenging legal problems.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in legal studies or a related field, preferred.
- Minimum of ten years of experience as a legal administrator or analyst, paralegal, or similar positions or licensed attorney.
- Excellent research, writing and analysis skills; ability to absorb, process, recall and utilize complex information to provide possible solutions.
- Significant experience working in the employee benefits field, preferred.
- Experience working for multiple constituents, organizational leaders and stakeholders.
Competencies
- Confidentiality: Demonstrates the utmost discretion in maintaining the confidentiality of sensitive information, follows HIPAA and other relevant legal requirements, maintains privilege and safeguards information in a manner that fosters trust and integrity.
- Collaboration: Builds authentic relationships and harnesses the energy of others. Adapts interpersonal style and models productive dialogue and debate.
- Communications: Has the ability to articulate and present complex information simply and concisely in person, over the phone and in writing, and to reflect Concordia Plans values (integrity, compassion, excellence, stewardship, accountability) in all internal and external communications.
- Research: The ability to systematically investigate, study, and analyze information, data, or resources to gain insights, generate new knowledge and address complex questions or challenges.
- Problem solving: Uses rigorous logic, systematic methods and analysis to solve difficult problems, able to exercise discretion and make decisions to resolve issues and questions, anticipates the implications and consequences of situations and takes appropriate action, is excellent at objective analysis, and asks questions, seeks answers and engages others in analyzing and developing solutions.
- Results oriented: Steadfastly pushes self for results, self-motivated with the ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks with minimal supervision, maintains focus on organizational goals.
- Detail driven: Focuses on thorough, accurate and complete work product with high attention to detail.
- Trustworthy: Acting with integrity, being honest and credible, reliable, having positive intent, able to present the unvarnished truth in an appropriate and helpful manner; keeps confidences; admits mistakes; doesn’t misrepresent him/herself for personal gain.
