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# Associate Director, Compliance Systems at GLIDE

- **Company:** GLIDE
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $95k–$115k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/glide/777c25c2-75f5-4e88-adb3-81d30ace67fb

## Job description

## About Glide

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.

Position Summary: The Associate Director of Compliance Systems is responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously improving the organizational systems, tools, governance processes, and cross-functional operating practices that enable GLIDE to consistently meet contractual and grant compliance requirements. Rather than administering contracts or grants, this role builds the organizational infrastructure that supports programmatic, finance, operations, and development and other teams in fulfilling their own compliance responsibilities while advancing organizational effectiveness.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Compliance Systems & Infrastructure

- Support the CCIO to design, implement, and continuously improve the systems, tools, processes, and cross-functional coordination necessary for departments across GLIDE (Finance, Fund Development, Programs, Ops, HR, etc.) to effectively meet their compliance responsibilities.
- Build and maintain cross-system compliance dashboards, calendars, organizational compliance checklists, and other reporting tools to improve organizational visibility and accountability for contract/grant compliance requirements.
- Conduct and document biannual compliance assessments with the CCIO to build and improve compliant practices and culture across GLIDE.
- Collaborate with the CCIO and compliance leads across departments (Finance, Fund Development, Programs, Operations, HR, etc.) to standardize compliance workflows, templates, checklists, toolkits, and documentation.
- Maintain centralized repositories for compliance documentation and institutional knowledge.
- In collaboration with CCIO, Program leads, and staff, develop organizational readiness processes for contract audits and monitoring visits, as well as audit preparation tools (e.g. standardized audit checklists and timelines).
- Surface emerging compliance risks and gaps at the organizational level and recommend process improvements.

Cross-Functional Project Leadership

- Partner across departments and facilitate cross-functional working groups when necessary to foster shared accountability for compliance processes, establish clear divisions of labor, and ensure that compliance requirements are integrated into standard operations.
- Manage organizational change projects around compliance from planning through execution; effectively coordinate stakeholders, timelines, dependencies, and clear, goal-driven communication.
- Work with Finance, Fund Development, and Program teams to support effective collaboration across verticals to ensure programmatic and fiscal compliance and accountability.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree (preferred, not required) and 5+ years related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in project management, organizational operations, compliance systems, and/or process improvement.
- Strong facilitation, communication, systems thinking, and change management skills.
- Experience in community-based social or health services agency and basic knowledge of program design, program workflows, and programmatic/fiscal monitoring and evaluation.
- Experience working with databases, data collection tools, and data analysis.
- Experience in nonprofit organizations with government-funded contracts and grants required; experience in administering San Francisco City and County contracts preferred.
- Demonstrated track record of success in cross-systems project management.
- Strong analytic and creative problem-solving skills. Ability to synthesize information from diverse resources to formulate possible recommendations/solutions for complex systems.
- Ability to translate organizational goals and priorities into action, lead cross-system initiatives from inception to execution, and iterate on processes for continuous improvement
- Demonstrated experience in aligning stakeholders around organizational change management initiatives.
- Demonstrated cultural humility and the ability to work effectively with people of all different backgrounds.
- Commitment to GLIDE’s mission, equity, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Strong sense of independent initiative and follow-through, able to work independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

Work Environment GLIDE’s buildings are located in the Tenderloin neighborhood.  GLIDE maintains an "open door" policy to the community and its clients, who frequently enter and leave the building.

## About GLIDE

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice in San Francisco that provides integrated comprehensive services, free daily meals, housing assistance, behavioral health support, and advocacy to break cycles of poverty and marginalization.
- **Entity Type**: Non-profit (501(c)(3) foundation) – publicly supported charity
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (330 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA 94102)
- **Founded**: 1963 (GLIDE Memorial Church roots; incorporated as foundation later)
- **Founders**: Rev. Cecil Williams (founder of GLIDE Memorial Church) and Janice Mirikitani (co-founder of GLIDE's social service programs)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Social services, poverty alleviation, hunger relief, housing/homelessness services, behavioral health, domestic violence intervention, child and family services
- **Target customers**: Homeless, low-income, and marginalized populations in San Francisco (Tenderloin neighborhood); B2C (direct service recipients)
- **Mission statement**: “Create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.”

## Products & Services
- **Daily Free Meals Program**: Three free, nutritious meals served 364 days a year to anyone in need – 533,298 meals served annually
- **Welcome Center**: Immediate basic needs (shelter, hygiene, blankets) and emotional support with case management
- **GLIDE Women’s Center**: Trauma-informed support groups, case management, and counseling for women survivors of violence, homelessness, or isolation
- **Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Health & Wellness Center**: 24/7 center for youth ages 18–27 experiencing homelessness, offering respite, mentoring, and connection to long-term resources
- **Journey Home Program**: Client-centered relocation and reunification support to move people from homelessness toward stability
- **Health Empowerment & Access Team (HEAT)**: Harm reduction, medically assisted treatment, HIV/Hep-C outreach, testing, and health system navigation
- **Community Ambassador Program**: Street-level engagement and placemaking to support San Francisco’s economic revitalization (30×30 plan)
- **Janice Mirikitani Family, Youth and Childcare Center**: Child and infant care, after-school programs, and family counseling for low-income families

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (non-profit); annual operating budget not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 533,298 meals served per year; 3,937 people connected to social benefits (CalFresh, SSI) in recent period; $24 million secured in state funding for housing subsidies, shelters, and mental health support through coalition
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Works in partnership with City of San Francisco leaders; receives state funding; coalition funding from California state budget
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding integrated mobile services; launching a new TAY Health & Wellness Center; developing a $31M fundraising plan (FY24); facility expansion and behavioral health services under current CEO Dr. Gina Fromer

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deeply rooted community trust**: 60+ years serving the Tenderloin, recognized as a “safe space” and oasis for those most in need
- **Integrated service model**: Combines meals, housing, healthcare, childcare, legal clinic, and advocacy under one roof, creating a holistic pathway out of crisis
- **National leadership in social justice**: Actively shaping policy and public narrative on poverty, homelessness, and racial justice from a faith-grounded but secularly inclusive foundation
- **Scale and reach**: One of the largest hunger relief and social service providers in San Francisco, with over 200 employees and thousands served daily

## Strategic Focus
- **GLIDE Forward plan**: Expand integrated and mobile services to reach more people citywide; raise $31M in FY24 for building repair, expansion, and behavioral health; showcase GLIDE as a national social justice leader through art and storytelling; improve business systems and infrastructure; center work on voices of marginalized people; inspire staff growth
- **30×30 alignment**: Supporting San Francisco’s economic revitalization through the Community Ambassador Program and low-threshold case management
- **Policy advocacy**: Secured $24M in state funding for housing subsidies, shelters, and mental health support through coalition building

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Supportive, diverse, and inclusive team environment rooted in radical inclusivity, justice, and love. “Work is meaningful and the people are great.”
- **Work environment**: Friendly, accepting, and informal (casual dress code noted)
- **Benefits**: Competitive salaries, medical and dental insurance, generous paid time off, retirement savings plans
- **Equal opportunity employer**: Proudly equal opportunity; will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records (San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance)
- **Growth opportunity**: Chance to be part of a transformative expansion under new CEO Dr. Gina Fromer, with a strong emphasis on staff development and “building the capacity to learn and iterate”
- **Hybrid/remote policy**: Not explicitly stated; likely on-site given service delivery nature, but check role-specific postings

## Sources
1. [glide.org – About](https://www.glide.org/about/)
2. [glide.org – Careers](https://www.glide.org/Careers/)
3. [jobs.lever.co/glide](https://jobs.lever.co/glide)
4. [guidestar.org – Glide Foundation Profile](https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-1156481)

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