Senior Manager, State, Local, Higher Education Regulatory, Risk, and Compliance

Our Deloitte Regulatory, Risk & Forensic team helps client leaders translate multifaceted risk and an evolving regulatory environment into defensible actions that strengthen, protect, and transform their organization.

Join our team and use advanced data, AI, and emerging technologies with industry insights to help clients bring clarity from complexity and accelerate their path to value creation.

Recruiting for this role ends on 1/8/2027

Work You'll Do

We are seeking a highly connected, strategic, and growth-oriented Senior Manager, Regulatory, Risk, and Compliance, to drive our State Local Higher Education (SLHE) regulatory intelligence practice.

In this role, you will lead sales, relationship building, and market expansion efforts, leveraging your political capital, lobbying background, or deep domain expertise in highly regulated industries.

Key Responsibilities


* Drive Revenue Growth: Identify, qualify, and close new business opportunities within state and local government agencies.


* Leverage & Expand Networks: Utilize your existing political, lobbying, or industry network to secure direct introductions to key public sector buyers, decision-makers, and agency heads.


* Strategic Capture Management: Lead the capture process for SLHE competitive pursuits, positioning our firm as the prime contractor or establishing high-value teaming agreements.


* Solution Selling: Effectively articulate and sell our core capabilities, including rulemaking analysis, policy development frameworks, regulatory impact assessments, and field/remote compliance inspections (excluding traditional financial audit work).


* Market Intelligence: Monitor state and local legislative sessions, administrative rulemaking, and state-level procurement trends to identify emerging agency needs and funding streams.

The successful candidate would possess these skills:



* Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team


* Effective written and verbal communication skills


* Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product


* Ability to build and sustain professional relationships


* Ability to lead projects or workstreams


* Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment


* Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor


* Ability to meet deadlines


* Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact.

Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Regulatory & Financial Risk offering supports clients' regulatory and compliance needs, balancing risk and regulatory requirements with enhancing business val...