Legal Specialist

Marathon Health

Legal Specialist providing operational support to compliance and regulatory programs in healthcare. Collaborating with Legal and cross-functional partners in a fast-paced environment.

Posted 5/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $80,000 - $115,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

compliance managementprivacy managementregulatory supportlitigation trackingauditingdocument managementpolicy lifecycle managementrisk managementorganizational skillsattention to detail

Soft Skills

written communicationverbal communicationorganizational skillscollaborationindependencemulti-taskingproblem-solvingtime managementadaptabilityattention to detail