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Lead Regulatory Compliance Coordinator

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  • Experience bandLead (8-12 years)
  • Direct reports3-8 reports
  • Reports toRegulatory Compliance Manager
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Principal Compliance Specialist · Compliance Lead Analyst · Senior Compliance Project Manager

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The qualifications matched to this job

GQA Level 5 Diploma in the Practice of Process Safety Management GQA Qualifications Limited · Level 5 · covers 4 of 10 standards
CICM Level 5 Diploma in Credit and Collections Management Chartered Institute of Credit Management · Level 5 · covers 1 of 10 standards
FDQ Level 3 Certificate for Proficiency in Food Manufacturing Excellence FDQ Limited · Level 3 · covers 3 of 10 standards
FDQ Level 3 Diploma for Proficiency in Food Manufacturing Excellence FDQ Limited · Level 3 · covers 1 of 10 standards
GQA PAA\VQ-SET Level 3 Diploma for a Bulk Storage Operator (Technician) GQA Qualifications Limited · Level 3 · covers 1 of 10 standards

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The units you would start with

Understand how to comply with the relevant Regulations, Industry Standards and Management Requirements for Process Safety GQA Level 5 Diploma in the Practice of Process Safety Management
Compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements CICM Level 5 Diploma in Credit and Collections Management
Principles of Safe Manufacture of Quality Medicines in the Pharmaceutical Environment Open Awards Level 3 Technical Occupational Entry in the Principles and Practice for Pharmacy Technicians (Diploma)
Manage compliance to support achieving excellence in food operations FDQ Level 3 Certificate for Proficiency in Food Manufacturing Excellence
Comply with External and Internal Obligations within a Bulk Storage Operations Environment GQA PAA\VQ-SET Level 3 Diploma for a Bulk Storage Operator (Technician)

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  1. Understand how to comply with the relevant Regulations, Industry Standards and Management Requirements for Process Safety GQA Qualifications Limited · covers 4 of 10 standards Level 5
  2. Compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements Chartered Institute of Credit Management · covers 1 of 10 standards Level 5
  3. Principles of Safe Manufacture of Quality Medicines in the Pharmaceutical Environment Open Awards · covers 4 of 10 standards Level 3
  4. Manage compliance to support achieving excellence in food operations FDQ Limited · covers 3 of 10 standards Level 3
  5. Comply with External and Internal Obligations within a Bulk Storage Operations Environment GQA Qualifications Limited · covers 1 of 10 standards Level 3
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3What this role really is

A Lead Regulatory Compliance Coordinator designs compliance processes, leads workstreams, and guides a small team. This role involves translating regulations into practical actions for the business, so it stays on the right side of the law. It means looking at the bigger picture, spotting problems early, and building solutions that hold up. It connects the question of what could go wrong with how the work gets done day to day.

4What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Intelex, ETQ Reliance, or ServiceNow GRC Advanced

You'll configure workflows, build custom reports and dashboards, train new users on advanced features, and troubleshoot common issues. You're not just using it; you're shaping how we use it.

Veeva Vault QualityDocs or Microsoft SharePoint (with compliance workflows) Advanced

You'll design document taxonomies and lifecycle workflows, manage periodic review cycles for critical documents, and prepare comprehensive document packages for audits. You're the architect of our document control.

Cornerstone OnDemand, SAP Litmos, or Absorb LMS Expert

You'll develop complex training matrices, create tailored learning paths for different roles, validate training effectiveness, and manage audit-ready training records for entire departments. You're the go-to person for all things compliance training.

Microsoft Excel (Power Query, PivotTables, XLOOKUP) Advanced

You'll use Power Query to automate data ingestion from various sources, perform complex data cleaning, and build sophisticated models for compliance analysis. This is beyond basic spreadsheets.

Power BI Advanced

You'll build and maintain interactive Power BI dashboards to track key compliance indicators (KPIs), perform trend analysis, and present clear visualisations of our compliance health to leadership. Your dashboards will drive decisions.

Enhesa or LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance Advanced

You'll proactively analyse upcoming regulatory changes, perform detailed gap analyses against our current policies, and summarise the practical impact for various stakeholders. You're using these tools to anticipate, not just react.

Microsoft Teams & Confluence Advanced

You'll structure Confluence spaces as robust knowledge bases for compliance, using Teams integrations (e.g., Planner) to manage complex compliance projects and coordinate your team's activities. You'll set the standard for team collaboration.

5What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing in Where you are nowThe step above
Process Design & Implementation Follows existing procedures, suggests minor improvements to supervisor. Adapts standard approaches to new situations, proposes solutions to manager. Designs new end-to-end processes, gets input from cross-functional leads, presents to Director for approval.
Audit Response & Strategy Gathers requested documents, takes notes during auditor interviews. Drafts responses to minor audit findings, manages document retrieval for specific requests. Leads sections of internal/external audits, drafts responses to significant findings, represents the team during auditor interviews.
Team Management & Development No direct reports, focuses on personal learning. Informally guides new joiners, shares knowledge. Mentors 1-2 junior team members, provides feedback on their work, helps unstick problems.
Budget Allocation (Project Specific) No budget authority, reports expenses. Manages small expenses (e.g., training courses) up to £1K, with manager approval. Recommends project-specific spending up to £5K, requires Director approval.

6How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, and what is not on it. The hard targets, how often each is actually looked at, and the quiet signals that never reach a dashboard.

Reduction in Recurring Non-Conformances (NCRs)
This measures how effectively your process designs and interventions prevent the same problems from happening again in your areas of focus.
Target · A 20% year-on-year decrease in recurring NCRs within your assigned compliance areas.

If your team focuses on equipment calibration, we'd expect to see a 20% drop in NCRs related to calibration failures compared to the previous year, showing your new process for tracking and maintenance is working.

On-Time Delivery of Compliance Projects
How often you complete significant compliance projects (e.g., implementing a new regulatory requirement, rolling out a new CAPA workflow) within the agreed timeframe.
Target · 95% of all assigned compliance projects completed on or before their deadline.

You led the implementation of a new data integrity policy. If it was due on 1st June and launched on 28th May, that's a win. If it slipped to 15th June, we'd want to know why.

Audit Finding Closure Rate
This tracks how quickly and thoroughly your team addresses and closes out audit findings, especially those from external bodies.
Target · 100% of all audit findings closed within the agreed-upon regulatory or internal timelines.

After an external audit, you're given 30 days to close a minor finding related to document control. Getting that done, with all evidence, by day 28 is the expectation. Missing it is a big problem.

Team Mentorship & Development
The growth and effectiveness of the junior coordinators you're guiding.
Target · At least one L1/L2 coordinator successfully onboarded and demonstrating increased independence and capability within 12 months.

You've mentored a new joiner who, after 9 months, is now confidently managing the CAPA log and even training other new starters. That's a clear sign you're doing well here.

Quality of Process Design
How well your new or revised compliance processes are understood, adopted, and effective in practice.
  • Feedback from Operations and other teams on ease of use. Low error rates in new processes. Fewer questions from auditors on areas where you've implemented new designs. Your processes should be practical, not just theoretical.
Stakeholder Buy-in & Influence
Your ability to get key internal stakeholders (like Engineering, R&D, Operations) to not just comply, but to actively participate in building and maintaining compliance.
  • Being proactively invited to cross-functional planning meetings. Managers seeking your advice on compliance implications for new projects. Timely responses from other departments to your requests. They should see you as a partner, not just a policeman.
Proactive Risk Identification
Your knack for spotting potential compliance issues before they become actual problems or audit findings.
  • You're bringing potential risks to the attention of your manager and other teams, suggesting mitigation strategies. You're not just reacting to problems
  • you're anticipating them. This means fewer 'fire drills' because you saw the smoke early.
Clarity of Communication
How effectively you can explain complex regulatory requirements and compliance processes to a diverse audience, from senior leadership to shop floor staff.
  • Your presentations are clear and concise. People understand your emails without needing follow-up questions. You can adapt your message for different audiences, using plain English where needed, and technical jargon only when appropriate. No one should be left scratching their head after you've explained something.

7Would you like it

Both sides. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Making a Tangible Impact

You'll get satisfaction from seeing your newly designed CAPA workflow reduce overdue actions, or knowing your improved training programme prevented a common error. You want to build things that work and protect the business.

Successfully implementing a new change control process that genuinely streamlines approvals and reduces compliance risk, seeing it adopted across departments.

Solving Complex Problems

You enjoy the intellectual challenge of deconstructing a vague new regulation and figuring out exactly how it applies to our specific operations. You like digging into root causes and designing robust, long-term solutions.

Analysing a series of related non-conformances, identifying a systemic issue, and then designing a new procedure to address the underlying problem across the entire production line.

Mentoring and Developing Others

You get a buzz from helping junior team members understand complex compliance concepts, reviewing their work, and seeing them grow into more independent contributors. You're happy to share your knowledge and guide others.

Guiding a new coordinator through their first internal audit preparation, providing constructive feedback, and celebrating their successful contribution.

What frustrates people
  • The 'Compliance Catch-22': Being seen as a bureaucratic roadblock until an incident happens, then being asked why you didn't prevent it.
  • Chasing Ghosts: Spending a significant chunk of your week chasing busy managers in other departments for overdue investigation responses and action items they see as low-priority.
  • Interpreting 'Reasonable': Battling with vague regulatory language like 'adequate' or 'appropriate', then having to defend your interpretation to an auditor who might have a different opinion.
  • The Pre-Audit Scramble: The two weeks of panic and long hours before a major regulatory audit, trying to fix all the small issues that were ignored for the past 11 months.
  • Process vs. Reality: The soul-crushing discovery that a beautifully written, approved procedure you created a year ago bears little resemblance to what people are actually doing on the shop floor.
  • Death by Documentation: The sheer volume of paperwork and administrative tasks that can sometimes overshadow the more strategic, risk-reduction work you're trying to do.
  • Lip Service Leadership: Dealing with managers who talk a big game about quality and compliance but are unwilling to provide the necessary resources or push back production schedules to actually fix problems correctly and sustainably.
What this role does not give you
  • A quiet, predictable 9-to-5 where every day is the same – expect urgent requests and shifting priorities.
  • Constant, immediate gratification for your efforts – much of your work is preventative and only truly 'noticed' when a problem doesn't happen.
  • A role where you're always popular – you'll sometimes be the person saying 'no' or pushing for uncomfortable changes.
  • An environment where processes are always followed perfectly – you'll need to be resilient to human error and resistance to change.

8Who you work with

Your work directly shapes how we operate in regulated areas. You'll be building the processes that prevent major non-conformances, which in turn protects our licence to operate and our financial stability. Get it right, and you save us millions in potential fines and rework. Get it wrong, and the business faces significant risks. You're not just a cog; you're designing parts of the engine.

Inside the business
  • Regulatory Compliance Manager (your boss)
  • Heads of Operations, Engineering, and R&D (you'll need their buy-in)
  • Legal Counsel (for interpretation of tricky regulations)
  • Internal Audit team (they'll review your work)
  • Training & Development (for rolling out new compliance training)
Outside the business
  • External auditors (you'll be facing them directly)
  • Regulatory bodies (you'll help prepare responses to their queries)
  • Industry associations (for benchmarking and best practices)

9What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • A minimum of 5 years' direct experience in a dedicated regulatory compliance or quality assurance role within a regulated industry.
  • Proven experience leading small-to-medium compliance projects, seeing them through from start to finish.
  • Demonstrable experience in conducting root cause analyses and managing CAPA lifecycles for complex issues.
  • Experience acting as a key point of contact during internal or external audits, including direct interaction with auditors.
  • A solid understanding of at least one major GRC or QMS platform (e.g., Intelex, Veeva, SharePoint with workflows).
  • Experience mentoring or informally guiding junior team members.
  • The ability to translate complex regulatory texts into clear, actionable business requirements.

10What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Predictive Compliance Analytics

Moving from reactive reporting to proactive risk identification. Businesses are increasingly using historical data to predict where compliance failures are most likely to occur, allowing for targeted interventions before problems arise. This means less firefighting and more prevention.

Anomaly detection in compliance data · Correlation analysis for risk factors · Dashboard design for leading indicators · Basic statistical modelling for forecasting

  • This week: Identify one recurring non-conformance and brainstorm 3-5 potential leading indicators that could predict its occurrence.
  • This month: Use Power BI to create a simple dashboard that tracks these leading indicators over time, looking for trends.
  • Month 2: Take an online course on basic statistics for data analysis, focusing on correlation and regression.
  • Month 3: Present your predictive dashboard and findings to your manager, outlining how it could help us prevent future issues.

Quick win: Start tracking 'near misses' or early warning signs in your current data. Even a simple trend analysis can highlight areas needing attention before they become full-blown problems.

Integrated GRC Platform Optimisation

GRC platforms are becoming more central and interconnected. You'll need to understand how to optimise them not just for individual tasks, but as a holistic system that integrates with other business tools (e.g., ERP, HRIS) to provide a single source of truth for compliance data. This reduces manual effort and improves data integrity.

API integration principles · Data mapping and harmonisation · Workflow automation across systems · User experience (UX) design for GRC

  • This week: Review our current GRC platform and identify one manual data entry point that could potentially be automated via integration.
  • This month: Research common integrations for our GRC platform (e.g., with HRIS for training, or ERP for quality data).
  • Month 2: Work with our IT team or GRC vendor to understand the technical feasibility and challenges of one such integration.
  • Month 3: Develop a business case for a specific GRC integration, outlining the benefits in terms of efficiency, data integrity, and compliance risk reduction.

Quick win: Familiarise yourself with the 'admin' or 'configuration' sections of our GRC platform. Understand its customisation options and how workflows are built. This foundational knowledge is key to future optimisation.

11Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Attend industry conferences and workshops focused on regulatory updates and compliance best practices in your specific sector.
  • Participate in webinars and online courses on advanced data analytics (e.g., Power BI, SQL) for compliance reporting and trend analysis.
  • Join professional compliance associations (e.g., SCCE, IRM) to network and stay current with industry trends.
  • Seek out opportunities to lead cross-functional projects that have significant compliance implications.
  • Actively mentor junior colleagues and participate in internal training programmes to hone your leadership and communication skills.

12The rising capability

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Competitors are already using Large Language Models (LLMs) to draft reports in 10 minutes that used to take 2 hours. Compliance professionals who figure this out will outproduce peers significantly. This isn't a 'nice to have'; it's rapidly becoming essential for efficiency.

  • Context windows and token limits
  • Temperature settings for different tasks
  • RAG architectures for proprietary data
  • Output validation and hallucination detection
  • Prompt chaining for complex analysis

13What you’ll use

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Regulatory Interpretation & Analysis
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • CAPA Management (System Design)
  • Audit Management (Leading & Responding)
  • Risk Assessment & Management
  • Change Control (Process Ownership)

14The pathway

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    From Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist (L3)

    Roughly 2-4 years as an L3

    Skills to master

    • You'd need to master leading complex investigations, taking ownership of significant compliance workstreams, and demonstrating strong mentorship skills. You'd also need to prove you can influence stakeholders without direct authority.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently leading successful internal audits and managing responses to external audits with minimal oversight.
    • Successfully mentoring 1-2 junior team members, helping them develop their skills and independence.
    • Proactively identifying systemic compliance risks and proposing robust, well-thought-out solutions.
    • Taking initiative on process improvements that significantly reduce compliance burden or risk.
  2. 2

    From Quality Assurance Lead / Manager in a Regulated Industry

    Around 8-12 years in QA, with significant exposure to regulatory compliance.

    Skills to master

    • You'd need to bridge the gap between quality systems and pure regulatory compliance, focusing on interpreting regulations and designing compliance programmes. Strong project management and stakeholder management skills are crucial.

    You're ready to move on when

    • A deep understanding of relevant regulatory frameworks (e.g., FDA, MHRA) beyond just quality standards.
    • Experience leading a QA team and managing complex quality projects.
    • Demonstrated ability to translate technical quality requirements into broader compliance strategies.
    • Strong track record of successful audit interactions and CAPA management.
  3. 3

    From Legal Counsel (Specialising in Regulatory Law)

    Roughly 5-8 years practicing regulatory law, plus some in-house experience.

    Skills to master

    • You'd need to shift from advising on compliance to actively building and managing compliance programmes. This means developing practical operational processes, managing data, and leading teams, not just providing legal opinions.

    You're ready to move on when

    • A desire to move from a purely advisory role to an operational leadership position.
    • Strong project management skills, even if developed outside a formal compliance function.
    • Demonstrable ability to work collaboratively with non-legal teams to implement regulatory requirements.
    • Experience in training and educating staff on legal and regulatory matters.

15Where this role leads

The long view: This role can lead to larger leadership positions such as Director of Compliance and Quality or Chief Compliance Officer. It can also lead towards specialist paths like Head of Regulatory Affairs.

The ten Future Fluencies

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A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Lead Regulatory Compliance Coordinator is actually changing.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

Also named as a next step, with no page in the catalogue yet:

  • Principal Compliance Architect (Individual Contributor Path)

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Understand how to comply with the relevant Regulations, Industry Standards and Management Requirements for Process Safety, worked against Lead Regulatory Compliance Coordinator.

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The objective of this unit is to provide learners with a comprehensive understanding of the regulations, industry standards, and management requirements for process safety. Learners will understand the role of the Process Safety Leadership Group, relevant frameworks, legal duties, and the role of the Competent Authority.

How the thinking builds
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  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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  • Regulatory Interpretation & Analysis
  • Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  • CAPA Management (System Design)
  • Audit Management (Leading & Responding)
  • Risk Assessment & Management
  • Change Control (Process Ownership)
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Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Lead Regulatory Compliance Coordinator is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Regulatory Compliance Manager (L5)

    Roughly 3-5 years in the Lead role.

    This is a direct management path, moving from leading projects and a small team to managing an entire function or department. You'll own the overall audit programme and report directly to senior leadership.

    • Developing and overseeing the entire annual audit programme (internal and external).
    • Managing vendor relationships for compliance tools and services.
    • Defining and tracking departmental KPIs and reporting to executive leadership.
    • Building and retaining a high-performing compliance team, including hiring and performance management.

  2. Principal Compliance Architect (Individual Contributor Path)

    Roughly 3-5 years in the Lead role.

    This is an advanced individual contributor path, focusing on deep technical expertise and strategic design without direct people management. You'll be the go-to expert for complex compliance system design and integration.

    • Designing and overseeing the implementation of complex, integrated GRC solutions across the enterprise.
    • Acting as the lead technical expert for major regulatory changes, translating them into system requirements.
    • Developing and validating advanced compliance analytics models.
    • Evaluating and recommending new compliance technologies and vendors for the business.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be honest, a big chunk of compliance work can be repetitive, manual, and time-consuming. But what if you could offload some of that to an intelligent assistant? We're embracing AI to free up our compliance professionals to focus on the really strategic, high-impact work.

Imagine having more time to design robust processes, conduct deeper root cause analyses, or mentor your team, rather than sifting through endless documents or manually comparing regulations. At Zavmo, we're building an AI Productivity Hub specifically for Compliance, Quality, and Health & Safety professionals. Here's a glimpse of how you'll be using AI in this role:

Automated Log & Form Review

Use an AI tool to automatically scan submitted forms, logs, and batch records for missing signatures, out-of-spec entries, or incorrect data formats. It'll flag them for your review before they even enter our system, catching errors much faster than a human ever could. This means less chasing, fewer mistakes, and more time for you.

Regulatory Change Summariser

Feed a new 150-page regulation or a complex standard update into an AI model. Ask it to generate a concise summary of key changes, identify direct impacts on our existing policies, and even draft a gap analysis checklist. This cuts down the most tedious part of regulatory intelligence from days to hours, letting you focus on the strategic response.

First-Draft Procedure Writer

Provide an AI assistant with a process map or a set of bullet points outlining a new workflow. It can then generate a formatted, compliant first draft of a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), including standard sections like Purpose, Scope, and Responsibilities. This helps you overcome the dreaded 'blank page' syndrome and handles all the boilerplate, so you can refine the critical details.

Root Cause Analysis Assistant

Input the details of a non-conformance event into an AI tool. It can suggest potential causal factors across categories (Man, Machine, Method, Material) to brainstorm for a Fishbone diagram or a 5 Whys analysis. This helps your team avoid bias, consider a wider range of possibilities, and get to the true root cause faster, leading to more effective CAPAs.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Lead Regulatory Compliance Coordinator?

Common routes in include From Senior Regulatory Compliance Specialist (Roughly 2-4 years as an L3), From Quality Assurance Lead / Manager in a Regulated Industry (Around 8-12 years in QA, with significant exposure to regulatory compliance.) and From Legal Counsel (Specialising in Regulatory Law) (Roughly 5-8 years practicing regulatory law, plus some in-house experience.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Lead Regulatory Compliance Coordinator progress to?

This role can lead on to Regulatory Compliance Manager (Roughly 3-5 years in the Lead role.) and Principal Compliance Architect (Individual Contributor Path) (Roughly 3-5 years in the Lead role.), depending on the skills you build.

What new skills matter most for a Lead Regulatory Compliance Coordinator?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration. These are the skills our record of this role lists as growing.

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17Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

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If you leave this industry

The skills built in this role, including regulatory interpretation, risk management, process design, audit leadership, and data analysis, apply across regulated industries such as finance, energy, and automotive. They also apply to consulting work, helping other organisations with their compliance challenges.

This role profile is © 2026 Growth Engineering Technologies Ltd. Built from UK occupational standards and regulated qualification data, and written for Zavmo.

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