Manager - Participant Assessment

Canberra, ACT (The agency supports and promotes flexible working, including remote options on negotiation)
- Ongoing/Non Ongoing (Non-ongoing will be offered for 12 months)
- $145,311 - $171,175 + Superannuation

**About the Branch**:
The Compliance Branch provides specialist services in investigations, enforcement, targeted outreach and education, audit, intelligence and analytics and participant assessment. The Compliance Branch works closely with all areas of the agency, but predominantly the scheme operations teams, our internal lawyers and our internal fraud team. Timely and effective progressing of matters is essential and KPIs and governance arrangements are in place to support this.

The Branch comprises of four sections and specific work includes:

- Compliance and Enforcement Section - undertaking proactive and reactive compliance activities including investigations and developing and delivering compliance and engagement programs to prevent, detect and address serious non-compliance across schemes administrated by the agency.
- Intelligence and Assessment Section - providing a centralised intelligence function that produces tactical, operational and strategic insights to support business areas, maintaining an ongoing participant monitoring function and coordinating engagement and collaboration with other regulators and undertaking a preliminary assessment triage function for all referrals received by the Branch.
- Compliance Strategy and Assurance Section - driving the engagement on strategic compliance policy initiatives, reporting on compliance effectiveness and providing a centralised scheme audit and assurance function.

**About the Section**:
The Participant Assessment section performs and delivers the following functions:

- Assesses potential participants in CER schemes to ensure that they meet the legislative requirements for being fit and proper. This includes for the Australian Carbon Credit Unit Scheme, Australian National Register of Emissions Units account holders and users with access to these accounts, Renewable Energy Target registered persons and agents as well as for new schemes including the Nature Repair Market and the Guarantee of Origin Scheme.
- Assesses individuals seeking to be appointed as Inspectors for the Renewable Energy Target and as Registered Greenhouse and Energy Auditors.
- Provides expert advice on scheme participant entry design and implementation to ensure integrity.

**Role Responsibilities and Duties**:
Duties of the Manager, Participant Assessment will include, but are not limited to:

- Working with autonomy under broad direction to manage and lead the section to deliver high quality participant assessment services.
- Working as a part of the branch executive to achieve strategic branch outcomes.
- Leading the development and delivery of strategic and operational initiatives to continuously improve the services offered by the section.
- Developing and nurturing relationships with scheme operational teams to uplift compliance capability.
- Initiating activities and strategies to build and lead a high performing team, including successful coaching and development of staff, and mobilising the capability, strength and leadership of others.
- Taking responsibility for the achievements of own and section outcomes, monitoring progress and following through to deliver quality outcomes.
- Performing effective and accountable financial management and budgeting activities.

**Qualifications/Experience**:

- Demonstrable experience in leading and developing a high performing team.
- Demonstrated ability to liaise with a variety of stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
- Experience in leading through change will be highly regarded.
- Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams, especially IT transformation will be highly regarded.
- Experience in working in a regulator will be highly regarded.

**Applications close 11.30pm on Sunday, 11 May 2025