Risk and Compliance Manager

Based in Brighton
- Part time (3 days a week), ongoing opportunity with an immediate start
- Drive change and provide advice to manage risk and compliance

Firbank Grammar is seeking a Risk and Compliance Manager, with the primary purpose of ensuring a whole school approach to Risk Management, Compliance and Occupational Health and Safety. This includes maintaining and implementing the school’s governance, risk and compliance program, incident management, policy management and assurance.

This pivotal position partners with key stakeholders to provide guidance and advice regarding legislative and regulatory compliance programs, to ensure an integrated approach to compliance and risk management at Firbank Grammar.

**Key Result Areas**:
**Risk Management**
- Provide specialist advice to the School Leadership on the design and implementation of the School’s risk management strategy and frameworks
- Actively promote a strong risk management and compliance culture and raise awareness across the School
- Develop succinct and informative Board-level reporting on risk profiles and controls

**Compliance**
- Manage the development, implementation, documentation and dissemination of relevant policy, procedures, processes, controls and guidelines to promote a compliance culture and reduce risk across the school, including the relevant professional learning modules for various sectors of the community.
- Identify all gaps in the school’s policy register, and ensure the school has the policies in place to ensure business practices are within legislated guidelines or compliance mandates from regulatory bodies.

**Workplace Health and Safety**
- Keep up to date on legal and/or regulatory changes that may impact the School and make recommendations where existing procedures and practices may require review.
- Review and maintain the Incident Reporting System, procedures, tools and checklists.
- Investigate and report on incidents, recommending corrective and preventative actions as appropriate.
- Play an active role as a member of the School’s OHS Committee, including the compilation and submission of incident reporting.
- Conduct OHS Audits.
- Develop and provide training for staff as required, including Emergency procedures training, Health and Safety onboarding for new staff, and Child Safety Training

**Injury Prevention/Management**
- Develop and implement OH&S inspection and management audit tools and implement an audit schedule for each Campus
- Assist in injury prevention through the implementation of risk management activities
- Oversee the Worksafe process for injured staff, including assisting staff in raising claims, manage ongoing claims, oversee return-to-work obligations

**Required Experience**
- Compliance and OH&S experience within a small-to-medium, complex organisation (experience in the Education Sector would be highly valued)
- The ability to ensure compliance and prioritisation of Child Safety Standards
- Proven capacity to innovate and to manage complex projects efficiently.
- Ability to initiate procedural improvements and develop sound internal systems.
- Extensive knowledge of the statutory requirements governing the operations of a OH&S function including the OH&S and Workers Compensation legislation, codes of practice, regulations and guidelines
- Commitment to meeting quality standards, and the willingness to update their skills and knowledge on a regular basis.
- A current Working with Children Check.

The role currently on offer is part time (3 days a week), term time only. However, there is potential for this role to become a 4 or 5 day a week role in the future.

For further information and details regarding Key Result Areas, Qualifications and Experience, please review the Position Description below.

**About Firbank Grammar School**

For more than 110 years Firbank Grammar has been at the forefront of teaching and learning, providing exceptional education and outstanding opportunities to its students. We offer world-class learning programs, activities and facilities to give our students the very best launchpad into the future.

As a leading independent school in Melbourne, our students consistently achieve outstanding results both academically and in their co-curricular pursuits and are a part of a vibrant, kind and inclusive community.

Firbank Grammar is committed to ensure all relevant Child Protection and Safety laws, Ministerial Orders, regulations and standards in Victoria are upheld.