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DIRECTOR, SELF DIRECTED COMPLIANCE

People Inc.

AMHERST, NYJob$62–64K/yrSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$62–64K/yr
Location
AMHERST, NY
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

New York State Broker Credentials

Job overview

The Director of Self-Directed Compliance collaborates with program directors, FI representatives, and support departments to ensure service quality and regulatory compliance. The role coordinates compliance and quality information, supports data analysis and electronic service records, responds to audits, and develops improvement plans. It also supervises SD Specialist Coordinators and SD Specialists and serves as a liaison to Corporate Compliance and Quality Improvement.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

OPWDD Regulatory StandardsCommunicationCustomer SatisfactionMicrosoft Office

Qualifications

Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience and EducationNew York State Broker Credentials

Full job description

Description

Salary Pay Range: $62,353.20 to $64,000

The Director of Self-Directed Compliance collaborates with Program Directors, FI Reps, and support departments to ensure quality services are provided. As a member of the management team, the Director of Self-Directed Compliance will ensure that services are of the highest quality and regulations are met. Facilitates, organizes, and coordinates information related to compliance, quality, and electronic service records. The Director of Self-Directed Compliance supports the department with on-going data analyses, documentation review, education, and management of electronic service records systems. The Director of Self-Directed Compliance acts as a liaison to the Corporate Compliance and Quality Improvement Departments and is responsible for responding to audits, noting and addressing trends, distributing system reports for follow-up, and developing implementation plans to improve services. The Director of Self-Directed Compliance supervises the SD Specialist Coordinators and SD Specialists.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Responsible for the quality and productivity of supervisees.

  • Acts as a liaison between the Self-Directed Services department and Compliance, Quality Improvement, eVero, and others as requested or needed- responding to audits, noting and addressing trends, distributing system reports for follow-up, and developing implementation plans to improve services.

  • Support to various departments to understand Self-Directed Services and its relationship to traditional Direct Provider Purchased services.

  • Assists with training and support to SD team members as it relates to Corporate Compliance, Quality Improvement, electronic records systems, and regulations.

  • Runs, reviews, and distributes various reports to ensure quality and efficiency, including budget utilization, monthly summaries, LCEDs, SAPs, Safeguards, DDPs.

  • Works with Associate Vice President on various projects as needed.

  • Provides support with Payroll, Billing, and Monthly Summaries.

  • Active participation in agency committees and initiatives as assigned.

  • Complies with all agency policies and procedures.

  • Monitors and manages various single point of contact emails for the department, including css, utilization, SD Team, and Self Direction inboxes

  • Oversees and ensures completion of DSP evals, peer reviews, satisfaction surveys, and monthly expense reports.

  • Oversees and ensures uploading of utilization reports, distribution of payroll reports, management of Paid Neighbor Agreements, and responses to person centered reviews/records requests.

  • Assisting with process development for housing admin fees, housing renewals, and reimbursement processing

  • Complies with all agency policies and procedures

  • Other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • B.A., B.S. preferred or combination of experience and education

  • Current New York State Broker Credentials or completed upon hire

  • Must have knowledge of OPWDD regulatory standards

  • Excellent communication, both verbally and through writing, and customer satisfaction skills

  • High-level understanding and ability to work within Microsoft Office suite

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provide guidance to a multidisciplinary team in relation to Self-Directed practices, procedures, and regulations.

  • Provide direct supervision to SD Specialist Coordinators, who supervise SD Specialists.

  • Others as assigned

Equal Opportunity Employer

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How this job compares

Set against the 4,955 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$62–64K/yr
  • New York median$86–129K/yr155 salary ranges
  • US median$89–143K/yr2,191 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $63K, is 44% below the New York median midpoint ($113K) — in the lowest quarter of Quality Assurance salary ranges in New York.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 283 open Quality Assurance jobs in New York and 4,955 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in New York
Experience
Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 2 to 5 years (3,790 postings).
Education
1,727 of the 4,955 open Quality Assurance jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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