Governance Risk & Compliance Manager

Inside Higher Ed
Atlanta, US

Job Description

Governance Risk & Compliance Manager

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  • Job Title: Governance Risk & Compliance Manager
  • Location: Atlanta, Georgia
  • Regular/Temporary: Regular
  • Full/Part Time: Full-Time
  • Job ID: 291706
  • Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type: Full-time
  • Job function: Finance and Sales
  • Industries: Online Audio and Video Media

Overview

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's Mission Is To Develop Leaders Who Advance Technology And Improve The Human Condition. The Institute Has Nine Key Values That Are Foundational To Everything We Do

  • Students are our top priority.
  • We strive for excellence.
  • We thrive on diversity.
  • We celebrate collaboration.
  • We champion innovation.
  • We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
  • We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
  • We act ethically.
  • We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides information technology leadership and support to the Georgia Institute of Technology, working in partnership with academic and business units to meet the unique needs of a leading research university. OIT serves as the primary source of enterprise-wide information technology and telecommunications services in support of students, faculty, staff, and researchers.

Job Summary

Responsible for developing an overall GT data protection framework including developing, reviewing, and updating IT and information security policies, standards, guidelines, and baseline to protect GT data and systems. Partner with functional and IT leaders across campus, data stewards and other risk stakeholders to develop and support a comprehensive cybersecurity risk management program that aligns with the GT Enterprise Risk Management function, and Data Governance objectives. Partner with data stewards and other functional leaders, IT leaders and staff to leverage technologies and processes to develop and maintain a comprehensive cybersecurity compliance program, including control design and implementation guides, training, continuous monitoring, alerting, and reporting. Responsible for setting employee goals, assessing employee performance and providing feedback, and making pay recommendations.

This position will interact on a regular basis with: IT Leadership Institute-wide, Data Governance Committee, unit staff and management, security leadership, and engineering staff.

This position typically will advise and counsel: Institute-wide IT Leadership, institute-wide stakeholders/partners and unit staff and management.

This position will supervise: Assigned staff.

Responsibilities

  • Develop an overall GT data protection framework including developing, reviewing, and updating IT and information security policies, standards, guidelines, and baseline to protect GT data and systems.
  • Partner with functional and IT leaders across campus, data stewards and other risk stakeholders to develop and support a comprehensive cybersecurity risk management program that aligns with the GT Enterprise Risk Management function, and Data Gover

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills

financehealthcare

Salary

€45,000+

year

Employment Type

FULL TIME

Level

mid

Posted

4/4/2026

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