Regulatory Compliance Associate

Location
St. Louis, MO

Time Type
Full time

Time Left to Apply
End Date: July 30, 2025

Job Requisition ID
B021073

The Organization - Gates Ag One
Agriculture has the power to sustain us all, but that power is dependent on equitable access to the tools and products needed to increase productivity and support food security as climate change, population growth, and gender inequality pose increasing threats.

Gates Agricultural Innovations (Gates Ag One) is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring high-quality, cutting-edge crop innovations are available and accessible to those that need them most.

As a wholly owned, not-for-profit subsidiary of the Gates Foundation, Gates Ag One drives to empower the small-scale producers of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by amplifying the translation of cutting-edge crop science research into affordable products for the public good. Gates Ag One pioneers new development pathways for the most exciting crop science happening today. Through catalytic public-private sector partnerships and the careful stewardship of innovation, the organization harnesses the developed world's commercial engines to research that prioritizes low-income countries and their most important food sources. This results in increased yields from game-changing seeds that promote food production and income where factors such as population growth and climate change pose mounting challenges – agriculture that benefits farmers, society, and the environment.

Your Role
Integral to Gates Ag One's mission of providing groundbreaking agricultural technologies to small holder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia is conducting confined field trials and lab/greenhouse experiments in varied geographies. As the Permits & Regulatory Compliance Associate, you will play a key role in helping Gates Ag One achieve its objectives by supporting the efforts to obtain regulatory permits and ensuring adherence to compliance and stewardship best practices and standards by Gates Ag One partners and affiliates.

Your responsibilities will include organizing, tracking, maintaining regulatory permits as well as associated standard operating procedures tied to Gates Ag One managed work. You will help ensure that activities involving regulated plant materials-including shipment, storage, testing, planting, and devitalization- are carried out in accordance with the relevant regulatory requirements and stewardship best practices established by Gates Ag One or regulatory authorities in different geographies. You will also assist in the review, inspection and documentation of potential organizations to include within Gates Ag One's portfolio.

Attention to detail, ability to interpret and implement regulatory requirements and the ability to communicate professionally with diverse collaborators are essential for this role. Proficiency with computer and cloud-based organization systems used for archiving and tracking permits and compliance information is also principal to success in this role. A desire and willingness to travel both locally and internationally is a benefit but is not required.

This position reports to the Deputy Director of Regulatory Science, Compliance and Stewardship.

*Applications will be accepted until 5 PM Pacific Time on Tuesday, July 29th, 2025.

What You'll Do

• In collaboration with the Permits and Regulatory Compliance Manager, work with internal departments to schedule, plan, and complete permit submissions.
• Help collect and organize all necessary information from internal partners for permit submissions.
• Become proficient with Gates Ag One's Permit Information Management System to help users input necessary permit application information, troubleshoot errors, and organize permit information effectively.
• Help draft electronic compliance tracking notebooks for the various permitted efforts.
• Track and produce monthly reports on the status of electronic compliance tracking notebooks.
• Calendarize all internal and external reporting obligations and ensure that obligations are met in a timely manner and communicated to collaborators.
• In collaboration with the Permits and Regulatory Compliance Manager, monitor partner and contract research organization activities to ensure adherence to contractual and permit requirements.
• Request, receive, and archive associated internal and external documentation.
• Help draft and review standard operating procedures for affiliates working under Gates Ag One permits

Your Experience

• Bachelor's degree (preferably in agriculture or a biology-related field).
• Experience working with regulated plant materials
• Demonstrated skills for quickly learning new computer and cloud-based programs
• Experience with information and database management
• Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Prior experience with permitting, regulatory compliance, or document management preferred

Other Attributes

• An optimistic solutions-oriented mindset that welcomes a diversity of opinions and values
• An innovative attitude that seeks to not only get the task at hand done but can help drive efficiency through creative solutions

*Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

The salary range for this role is $105,400 to $158,000 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission and new hires are typically brought into the organization at a salary range between the minimum and the midpoint salary range. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

Hiring Requirements
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Candidate Accommodations
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Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We're committed to creating a workplace where employees thrive both personally and professionally. We also believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve—in race, gender, age, cultures and beliefs—and we support this diversity through all of our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.

Transparency in Coverage (Machine-readable files)
The Transparency in Coverage Final Rules require group health plans to disclose on a public website information regarding in-network provider rates and historical out-of-network allowed amounts and billed charges for covered items and services in two separate machine-readable files (MRFs). The MRFs for the benefit package options are under the Gates Foundation Welfare Benefits Plan.

*The plan reserves the right to change or terminate benefits or the plan(s) at any time.

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