Legal Specialist

Role Overview

• Support Compliance, Privacy, and Governance, Risk & Compliance Committee (GRC) governance activities, including coordinating meetings, preparing and maintaining agendas, drafting and distributing meeting minutes, tracking action items, and maintaining complete and organized records for compliance-related committees.
• Manage and track business licenses, registrations, certifications, and other regulatory obligations, including maintaining compliance calendars, monitoring deadlines, coordinating renewals, and ensuring documentation is accurate and up to date.
• Support policy lifecycle management across Compliance, including coordinating updates, reviews, approvals, version control, attestations, and maintaining audit-ready documentation.
• Assist with privacy and compliance documentation, including policies, procedures, notices, and related records, in coordination with Compliance and Legal leadership.
• Support compliance investigations, cases, and issue management by organizing documentation, tracking status, following up on open items, and ensuring timely and appropriate closure.
• Assist with auditing and monitoring activities, including maintaining audit trackers, gathering and organizing supporting documentation, tracking remediation efforts, and supporting regulatory readiness initiatives (including HITRUST).
• Support litigation tracking and insurance-related matters, including maintaining claim and litigation trackers, organizing correspondence and documentation, coordinating with Legal and Risk as needed, and assisting with insurance renewals and reporting.
• Coordinate vendor and third-party compliance workflows, including intake, documentation tracking, follow-through, and coordination with Legal, Privacy, and Operations teams.
• Maintain compliance and privacy knowledge management resources, templates, trackers, and shared repositories to ensure information is easily accessible and current.
• Respond to internal questions regarding compliance and privacy processes, documentation, status tracking, and governance workflows.
• Support special projects related to compliance, privacy, regulatory readiness, and program improvements.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years of paralegal, compliance, privacy, or regulatory support experience, preferably in healthcare or another highly regulated environment, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience supporting in-house compliance, privacy, legal operations, regulatory, litigation, or risk management functions is preferred.
• Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint) and Adobe Acrobat; experience with document management systems or compliance platforms preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to produce clear, well-organized documentation.
• High attention to detail and strong organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and follow through consistently.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across Compliance, Legal, Privacy, ISS, Operations, and other internal teams.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment with evolving regulatory, litigation, and business needs.
• Interest in healthcare compliance and privacy, with a commitment to Marathon’s mission and values.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health & Wellness Benefits: Choice of 2 medical plans, 2 dental plans, and vision coverage, unlimited free mental health benefits and EAP resources, Rewards for challenges and healthy lifestyle activities
• Family Friendly & Reproductive Health Benefits: Family-building and hormonal health benefits and paid parental leave
• Time-Based Benefits: Generous PTO or FTO, Paid Holidays + A Day for What Matters
• Financial Support: Company paid Basic Life and Disability insurance, Supplemental Life, Spending Accounts, 401(k) with employer match and graded vesting
• Continuing Medical Education (CME) for maintaining and strengthening the knowledge, skills, and expertise of our health center teammates, as applicable