Enforcement Officer

The State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) is looking for an Enforcement Officer to join our team

**Benefits**
- Fantastic temporary clerk grade 7/8 opportunity, with the opportunity to create a talent pool for future roles
- Salary range: $101,947- $112,849 + super, commensurate with experience.
- Genuinely flexible working arrangements.
- State of the art offices in both Sydney or Gosford
- Wellbeing programs and resources available.
- Excellent career development and learning development opportunities.

**About Us**

This is an exciting opportunity to work in our State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA) which regulates three statutory insurance schemes in NSW. The vacant role sits more specifically in the Home Building Compensation Enforcement team within our Home Building Compensation Regulation Directorate. As an Enforcement Officer, you will be expected to work collaboratively with, support and assistant, other Enforcement Officers to ensure the effective operation of the team and the achievement of meaningful outcomes.

The position on offer makes a real difference to New South Wales consumers within the residential home building industry. You will investigate businesses that are suspected of not complying with Home Building legislation, for example by failing to take out a policy of insurance policy, under-insurance or fraud, and recommend regulatory action when contraventions are found.

Our work assists businesses who have complied by making premiums more affordable, keeping the Home Building Compensation Scheme viable. It also ensures consumers who engage a business to undertake residential building projects are appropriately insured.

Understand more about SIRA - here.

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Conduct preliminary investigations and make appropriate enforcement action recommendations in line with the legislation and internal guidance
- Work collaboratively with, support and assist other Enforcement Officers to ensure the effective operation of the team
- Research, analyse, collate information and identify trends from internal and external resources to inform the management of legislative non-compliance and the identification of fraud to deliver regulatory outcomes
- Provide accurate and timely advice to the Manager, Director and other key stakeholders on appropriate investigative and regulatory strategies to improve compliance and achieve consistent and robust enforcement outcomes
- Keep up to date with the latest trends and issues on relevant legislation and industry practices

**About you**:

- You want to be part of a dedicated and enthusiastic team which works to ensure the Home Building Compensation Scheme is viable
- You thrive on working collaboratively, internally and externally, to achieve meaningful outcomes
- You are engaging and motivated, willing to support personal and team development and clear performance expectations
- You have a high level of integrity and the ability to appropriately represent SIRA in engagement with internal and external stakeholders
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills, and attention to detail, and the ability to deliver high quality, thorough and well-reasoned reports, correspondence, statutory notices, recommendations and briefing notes

**If you have a background in government or regulatory investigations, finance or insurance investigations, this role is for you.**

**Closing date: Friday 28**th** April 2023 [at 9.59am]**

**What we need from you**:
A talent pool may be created from this recruitment process to fill future ongoing and temporary opportunities.

**You Belong Here**

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