The Principal Regulatory Officer leads complex regulatory activities within the Early Childhood Regulatory Authority, ensuring early childhood education and care services comply with relevant legislation and quality standards to protect children's safety and wellbeing.

The role involves conducting and guiding sensitive investigations, analysing compliance and risk data, providing expert regulatory advice, preparing investigation reports and briefs, resolving stakeholder issues, and mentoring team members to strengthen investigative capability and regulatory practice.

Job details

The Early Childhood Regulatory Authority's Metropolitan North Region regulates approximately 500 early childhood education and care services across two teams, with a focus on protecting children's safety health, safety and wellbeing.

Your opportunity:

As Principal Regulatory Officer, you will lead investigations into alleged legislative breaches, guide regulatory decisions and provide expert advice to ensure services meet required standards. You will also prepare investigation reports and briefs of evidence, mentor team members, and apply a risk-based regulatory approach. Role based at Nundah. Role potentially involves exposure to distressing matters regarding harm to children.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Undertaking regulatory activities, making recommendations and decisions that support the Regulatory Authority functions under the legislation and in accordance with the principles of good administrative decision making.
• Modeling strong investigative skills to build capability of team members regarding investigations.
• Assessing early education and care services under a national quality framework.
• Applying effective record keeping practices and using regulatory systems to capture accurate and timely data and regularly monitoring and reviewing data quality.
• Providing reliable advice to support the Regulatory Authority leadership team and external stakeholders including regulated service providers, the general public and other agencies.

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 written statement in response to the attached role description
• Attach a copy of your mandatory qualifications/registration 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.

Contact Name: Esther Blest, Director 0436 861 990
Closing Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026

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.

• Application Information Package (PDF, 285KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MNR705746_26P Role Description (PDF, 298KB)
  Role Description