Risk, Compliance and Work Health and Safety Manager

**About Our College**

Emmaus Christian College is a multi-campus, non-denominational school, providing quality, distinctly Christian education from ELC to Year 12. Our Brooklyn Park Campus caters for ELC to Year 6 and our South Plympton Campus caters for Foundation to Year 12.

We are passionate about delivering exceptional, biblically-based education, and want to partner with you as we outwork our vision of Inspiring Hearts and Inspiring Minds.

Our aim is that our students will graduate as confident and compassionate young adults, well-equipped to take their place in the world. We seek to foster a commitment to Jesus Christ and a passion to live life in such a way as to bring honour and glory to God, in staff and students alike.

**About the Role**
- In consultation with key stakeholders, manage the College’s Risk Management & Compliance Framework and strategy for comprehensive management of College risk and compliance.
- Lead the implementation of compliance matters, and contribute to meeting all relevant legislation/regulatory requirements of the College, and associated standards, as well as the Education Standards Board ESB (SA), National Quality Framework (NQF) and Australian Children’s Education and Care Quality Authority (ACECQA).
- Oversee Work Health and Safety (WHS) of the College, working with other College leaders to identify and address WHS issues to ensure legislative obligations are met across the School.
- Monitor internal and external developments around WHS including relevant legislation, Australian standards and best practice, the education sector, and College Policies & Procedures.
- Lead, coordinate, consult, and work with the College Leadership team and other relevant stakeholders to implement the WHS management system, including WHS plans, reporting, incident reporting, hazard management identification, documentation, and implementing controls across the College, which are fully compliant with legislation, practical and efficient, and a encompass a holistic approach including psychosocial wellbeing.
- Facilitate the implementation, review, updating and compliance of policies and procedures.
- Contribute to ensuring the College’s Policies and Procedures meet all applicable legislative/regulatory compliance in a complete and timely manner together with prescribed risk standards and the College’s expectations.

**About You**
- Be a committed Christian with a strong passion for Biblically-based Christian education.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a similar role (school experience would be beneficial), with appropriate tertiary qualifications.
- Strong commitment to customer service and a demonstrated ability to build relationships with others through stakeholder management (internal and external).
- Proven ability to strategically plan and implement changes, preferably in an educational community.
- Demonstrated ability to understand the breadth and depth of an organisation from both a technical/functional perspective as well as relationally/culturally.
- Strong communication skills (both verbally and written).
- Advanced interpersonal skills including the ability to work collaboratively with a diverse group of stakeholders (for example including boards, senior leadership teams, teaching and non-teaching staff).
- Understand contemporary risk and compliance management models, principles and the nexus to strategy and performance.
- Experience in providing innovative, practical and efficient solutions.
- Well-developed IT technical skills including in areas such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and with electronic risk and compliance systems/databases.
- The ability to work both as part of a team and independently, meeting time deadlines.
- Strong level of attention to detail, whilst also seeing the ‘big picture’.
- Strong advisory skills, change management skills and experience in managing or facilitating decision making processes.
- Knowledge of the education sector including industry and professional standards, legislation, codes including Risk Management standards of practice, frameworks, etc.
- The ability to understand, interpret and translate key material to stakeholders.
- Current valid Working With Children’s Check and RRHAN-EC Certification (or willingness to obtain), and the right to live and work in Australia.

**What We Offer**

At Emmaus Christian College, we value our employees beyond the workplace. As a member of our Christ-centred community, your unique gifts and talents will be cherished. We are united in our commitment to serve Jesus and inspire young people through high-quality education.

We recognise that we are blessed with staff who are dedicated and skilled, we offer the following to further nurture our team’s wellbeing, development and success.
- A distinctly Christian organisation with a unified mission for Christian education, including regular staff devotions and worship.
- Staff Team Building Day and professional development opportunities.
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