We’re looking for an organised, proactive and motivated Senior Regulatory Officer to join our Child Safeguarding Team.
If you're ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you!

Job details

About the Team:

The Child Safeguarding team is a specialist statewide function within the Early Childhood Regulatory Authority. It assesses notifications, complaints and intelligence and investigates allegations of sexual abuse and misconduct in early childhood education and care services. The team works closely with regional regulatory staff, government agencies, external authorities, sector stakeholders and subject-matter experts to identify risks to children and support coordinated regulatory responses.

About the Role:

• The opportunity to work as part of a specialist child-safeguarding team within the nation's leading early childhood education and care regulator.
• Direct engagement with leading academic experts in protective behaviours and situational and contextual crime prevention.
• The opportunity to contribute to the continuing development and application of behavioural risk assessment and proportionate regulatory intervention.
• The opportunity to contribute to the Regulatory Authority's response to the Queensland Family and Child Commission's In Plain Sight report and implementation of the Reportable Conduct Scheme.
• Exposure to complex and high-risk regulatory matters with statewide significance.
• Opportunities to contribute to child-safeguarding policy, regulatory practice, operational systems and sector-wide reform.
• Access to the collective expertise of a specialist team and established working relationships with regional regulatory staff, government agencies, external authorities and sector stakeholders.
• The opportunity to provide clear advice and evidence-based recommendations to senior officers and regulatory decision-makers.
• Flexible work arrangements, subject to operational requirements.

Responsibilities:

It would be highly desirable to have the following skills and experience:

• Demonstrated experience in a regulatory, investigative, child-safeguarding or comparable human-services role.
• Demonstrated experience assessing notifications, complaints, intelligence or other information to identify risk and determine appropriate action.
• Experience conducting complex investigations, gathering and analysing evidence, interviewing witnesses and preparing defensible findings.
• Highly developed analytical and critical-reasoning skills, including the capacity to assess adult conduct, behavioural patterns, contextual risk and complex evidence.
• Demonstrated ability to translate risk assessments into lawful, evidence-based and proportionate regulatory responses.
• Sound knowledge of administrative law principles and experience interpreting and applying complex legislation.
• Experience preparing accurate, high-quality briefs of evidence, investigation reports, regulatory correspondence, decisions and recommendations.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to provide clear advice to senior officers and regulatory decision-makers.
• Demonstrated experience building effective relationships with government agencies, external authorities, sector stakeholders and subject-matter experts.
• Experience contributing to regulatory reform, policy development, priority projects and improvements to operational systems and practice.

About You:

• Integrity, sound judgement and a strong sense of personal accountability.
• A calm, measured and methodical approach to complex, sensitive and high-risk matters.
• Confidence to make well-reasoned recommendations, escalate identified risks and address difficult issues.
• Resilience and emotional maturity when working with confronting material and sustained operational demands.
• A respectful, collaborative and constructive approach to working with colleagues and stakeholders

Interested? To Apply:  

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history);
• Attach a 2-page response to the Competencies section of the attached role description. 
• Attach evidence of the mandatory requirements outlined in the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.  

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.  

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.  

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

For a full list of the position responsibilities and mandatory requirements, please ensure you download the attached Role Description and Applicant Information Package and follow the instructions. 

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• CO701243_26P - Role Description (PDF, 295KB)
  Role Description
  
  Application Information Package (PDF, 285KB)
  Information Package for Applicants