Senior Director of Regulatory Operations

The Regulatory Operations Group (ROG) plays a pivotal role in achieving safer and healthier workplaces within its jurisdiction. As an effective national regulator, it achieves this by promoting continuous improvements in work health and safety practices, as well as national/international monitoring, compliance, and enforcement activities under the Work Health and Safety Act (WHS Act).

The National Operations team is responsible for supporting the objectives of Comcare and the Regulatory Operations Group to be a nationally consistent, risk-based WHS regulator. This involves ensuring the delivery of effective, consistent, and targeted national regulatory operations to organizations within the Comcare Scheme.

Seven Directors lead the Group's oversight of national/international compliance and enforcement activities under the WHS Act. These include Six Regional Directors who manage regional operations teams across Australia and a Director who manages WHS investigation, family liaison, and WHS undertaking compliance activities nationally.

The team has centralised oversight of WHS Investigations and investigation procedures and capability.

The team will assist with the coordination of Regulatory Work Activity Planning Model (RWAPM) programs and regional engagement plans on behalf of Regulatory Operations Group.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead multifaceted geographically diverse teams and ensure the delivery of high quality, consistent, and effective regulatory operations that are national and international in nature and often politically sensitive, under the WHS Act, WHS Regulations, and Comcare regulatory policy and guidelines.
• Oversight the conduct of complex WHS investigations, including making decisions on the escalation and de-escalation of matters to/from investigation.
• Provide high quality regulatory advice, analysis, and assurance to the Comcare Executive, including on the referral of investigations to the Commonwealth Department of Public Prosecutions.
• Oversee the National Investigation and Oversight team and the six Regional Operations teams within Regulatory Operations Group (ROG) and report directly to the General Manager, ROG.
• Demonstrate strategic leadership capability, superior people management skills, and an ability to achieve organisational objectives through leading, contributing, and collaborating with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Have a demonstrated extensive understanding or an ability to quickly gain this knowledge of WHS legislation and regulation.

Focus Areas:

• Oversee Comcare's WHS regulatory compliance activities with national/international implications and/or reach in accordance with Comcare's Compliance and Enforcement Policy
• Ensure national consistency in regulatory operational delivery across regions while overseeing and identifying emerging WHS risks
• Deliver an integrated program of compliance activities, using a contemporary risk-based approach, to target WHS issues or entities within the jurisdiction that pose the most significant risk to health and safety of workers
• Collaborate with stakeholders within Comcare and across the jurisdiction, including the Minister's office, the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations, workers and their representatives (Unions), State and Territory WHS jurisdictions, and national employers

Eligibility and Specific Conditions of Employment:

• Three plus years' leadership experience working in a regulatory, compliance, law enforcement, work health and safety, and/or mental health environment
• Character clearance (Australian Criminal History Check)
• Employee Health Declaration
• Six months probationary period for new engagements
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Negative Vetting 1 Security Clearance
• Intra and interstate travel, including overnight absences

How to Apply:

Please review the Job Information Pack below and provide a statement of claims outlining what you could bring to this position, including your skills, experience, and knowledge relevant to the job specific capabilities and role.

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