What are the responsibilities and job description for the Legal and Compliance Specialist position at Concordia Plans?
Legal and Compliance Specialist
At Concordia Plans we care for those who serve by providing excellent retirement, healthcare, and benefit services. Our Legal and Compliance Specialist serves a key role in reviewing and managing organization’s contracts, as well as handling legal and regulatory compliance with HIPAA requirements.
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.
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 Legal and Compliance Specialist serves key role in reviewing and managing organization’s contracts, as well as handling legal and regulatory compliance with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements.
Essential Job Functions
- Performs initial legal review and analysis of contracts and provides clear and accurate analysis to reviewing attorney; facilitates contract review, approval and signature process, including performing necessary research and communication.
- Serves as the organization’s contract management system and contract records manager.
- Supports the HIPAA Privacy Officer by serving as the organization’s HIPAA compliance program manager, trainer and record keeper. Performs event investigations, remediation, and documentation, including proper reporting of violations or potential violations to enforcement agencies as appropriate. Reviews HIPAA authorizations and manages document destruction for the organization.
- Identifies potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk, develops/implements corrective action plans and provides general guidance on how to avoid potential violations in the future.
- Prepares communications and develops effective training materials related to privacy and HIPAA compliance, including introductory training for new employees as well as ongoing training for all employees.
- Performs legal research and monitors litigation and other legal developments.
- Maintains a strong working knowledge of federal and state data privacy laws, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act ; analyzes legal developments, assists in resolving complex legal issues, and provides necessary and useful information to CPS staff.
- Assists with department project management.
- Bachelor’s degree is required, or in place of degree, 10 years of relevant experience as a paralegal or contracts administrator.
- Experience with HIPAA compliance program requirements, coordination, training, and recordkeeping required.
- Certified in Healthcare Privacy Compliance (CHPC) or similar certification is preferred.
- Experience working in the employee benefits field or with life, health and disability insurance products is preferred.
- Experience with HIPAA compliance program requirements, coordination, training, and recordkeeping required.
- Experience with contract management systems is preferred.
- 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.
- Data Management: Ability to securely collect, maintain, research, evaluate and summarize data for utilization in various business practices, data analysis and reporting.
- 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.
