Manager, Environmental Audit

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / Up to 8 months

Organisation: Environment Protection Authority

**Salary**: $127,467 - $170,579

Occupation: Environment

Reference: VG/EPA/QUALITY/1695042

As Victoria's environmental regulator, we set and enforce environmental standards to help ensure all Victorians can enjoy clean air, healthy waterways and pollutant-free land.

To achieve the best possible environmental outcomes for Victoria, we're increasingly shifting our focus from minimising the effects of environmental harm, to preventing it from happening in the first place.

To help us achieve this, we're now recruiting. By working at EPA you can enjoy a meaningful career with great work-life balance, while building a better future for our environment.

**Manager Environmental Audit**
- $ 129379 to $ 151259 salary range
- Hybrid working options
- For up to 8 months
- 200 Victoria Street, Carlton VIC 3053

**About the organisation**

As Victoria's environment regulator, we set and implement environmental standards to help ensure all Victorians can enjoy clean air, healthy waterways and pollutant-free land.

**Benefits of working with the EPA**:

- Contribute to the protection of Victoria's environment and our people's health
- A focus on work/life balance and development opportunities
- A diverse and inclusive workplace with many career pathways
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangement options

**About the role**

This is a senior management role for an experienced regulator. Working closely with the Chief Quality Officer, you will lead and manage a team through change to ensure a positive organisational culture and ensure the highest standards of performance and integrity are achieved; and foster genuine partnerships across all levels of government, industry, and community to deliver organisational outcomes. You will drive improvements to the effectiveness of the environmental audit program, aligned to EPA's strategic priorities to prevent harm to the environment and human health from pollution and waste.

**Duties**
- Contribute to the overall operational strategy and direction of the organisation, ensuring a one-EPA approach to the delivery of priorities; build a high performing workforce that is safety and wellbeing focussed, outcome-orientated, collaborative, innovative, professional, and engaged.
- Lead the Environmental Audit Unit in building, maintaining, and leveraging strategic relationships and partnerships to ensure that the EPA is a trusted and influential authority in advancing the prevention of harm to the environment and human health from pollution and waste; effectively represent the EPA in the local community and at external forums.
- Ensure a robust, transparent, risk and evidence-based approach within the Environmental Audit Unit, empowering and supporting staff, and devolving decision making with an appropriate accountability framework embedded within the unit; drive process improvements within the Internal Environmental Audit Unit and the broader EPA to achieve regulatory excellence and priority outcomes in a more effective and efficient way.
- Lead the development and implementation of policies and process for the appointment, re-appointment, quality assurance / control and disciplinary action (conditions, suspensions, revocation) of Environmental Auditors, ensuring the requirements of the _Environmental Protection Act 2017_ are complied with.
- Manage the Environmental Audit program, including the review of the scope of audits and preliminary risk screen assessments submitted prior to audits commencing (within 30 business day of submission); develop and maintain auditor guidance; and conduct audit meetings as required.
- Provide support and advice on the Environmental Audit program as requested to auditors, EPA staff, local government and the community.

**Skills and experience**
- A relevant tertiary degree and/or post graduate qualifications in law, environmental science, quality management or a related discipline is desirable.
- A proven record of achievement in a senior management role leading a business unit through change to achieve high performance and a positive organisational culture.
- Leadership experience in an assurance function, preferably within Government.
- A detailed knowledge of Victoria's independent environmental auditor framework.
- A broad understanding of environmental regulation as it relates to pollution and waste is desirable.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities, including building a shared sense of direction, clarifying priorities; identifies and responds proactively to strategic issues impacting the operating environment.
- Ability to implement performance management and development frameworks than manage staff performance, build organisational capability, and support individual development objectives; create and promote and environment that appropriately balances teamwork and individual accountability; provides timely, constructive, and objective f