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American Public Education, Inc. (APEI)

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1991

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Education • B2C

American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) is a mission-driven, for-profit higher education services provider that delivers affordable, innovative degree and certificate programs to working adults, military service members and veterans, nurses, and other professionals. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries — American Public University System (American Public University and American Military University), Rasmussen University, and Hondros College of Nursing — APEI offers online, on-campus and workplace education focused on career-oriented programs and public service communities. The company is headquartered in Charles Town, West Virginia and emphasizes accessibility and support for adult learners and the military community.

📋 Description

• Lead the day-to-day operation of enterprise data governance processes, controls, standards, and supporting documentation. • Manage the team responsible for governance administration, metadata coordination, quality evidence, certification records, access documentation, exceptions, and asset lifecycle tracking. • Embed governance requirements into delivery workflows so controls are completed as part of normal engineering and analytics work. • Monitor compliance with required metadata, lineage, quality, access, certification, release, retention, and applicable SOX controls. • Partners with Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, Product Management, Experience Engineering, Information Security, Internal Audit, and business stakeholders to resolve governance issues and clarify responsibilities. • Maintain governance reporting, dashboards, control evidence, issue logs, exception records, and escalation processes. • Coordinate governance reviews for new and changed enterprise data assets without assuming ownership of the underlying business logic or technical building. • Identify control gaps, recurring issues, and process inefficiencies, and lead corrective actions and continuous improvement. • Support audit, compliance, and regulatory requests by ensuring governance evidence is complete, traceable, and readily available. • Establish team priorities, assign work, manage performance, develop staff capabilities, and ensure consistent service across the enterprise.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading data governance operations, data management, compliance, or related enterprise data functions. • Strong knowledge of metadata management, data lineage, data quality, access governance, certification, issue management, and asset lifecycle controls. • Experience translating governance policies and standards into practical workflows, controls, evidence, and reporting. • Working knowledge of regulatory and control requirements relevant to enterprise data, including SOX, FERPA, privacy, security, and audit support. • Experience managing governance platforms, metadata repositories, data quality tools, workflow systems, or similar technologies. • Ability to evaluate control effectiveness, identify gaps, manage exceptions, and coordinate corrective actions across multiple teams. • Strong leadership skills, including workload management, coaching, performance management, and team development. • Ability to communicate governance requirements clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, senior leaders, auditors, and control partners. • Experience building governance metrics, dashboards, issue logs, and executive-level reporting. • Strong organizational, analytical, documentation, and problem-solving skills. • Ability to operate effectively across multiple business units and balance enterprise consistency with legitimate business needs. • Experience in higher education, financial reporting, or another regulated environment is preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Professional development opportunities