Compliance Specialist

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**Position Overview**:
Reporting to the Global Compliance Lead, the Compliance Analyst contributes to the company's compliance maturity and processes across the following key areas:

- Business partner with key stakeholders to develop, implement, monitor and continuously improve policies, procedures and processes, and support development and maintenance of pragmatic program operations manuals to ensure project compliance
- undertake quality assurance (QA) of compliance documentation.

**Responsibilities**:
**Project and Corporate Compliance**
- Business partner with key stakeholders to develop, implement, monitor and continuously improve policies, procedures and processes to ensure compliance with regulatory, contractual and company requirements,
- Support Abt Australia and Abt Britain's Program Delivery and in-country program teams in the development and maintenance of pragmatic program operations manuals in accordance with client contract requirements

**Global Quality Management System**
- Support the Global Compliance Lead to foster a mature compliance culture and proactive compliance management across Abt by completing detailed reviews of compliance material across Abt to inform compliance workplan and ongoing assessment of compliance maturity.
- Support the Global Compliance Lead with Abt Australia and Abt Britain's quality management system certification and accreditation for ISO 9001.
- Conduct a thorough quality assurance (QA) check of compliance documentation that is submitted for QA through the Global Quality Management System (GQMS).
- Provide advice and support to staff regarding the GQMS and Abt's compliance standards.
- Provide troubleshooting support to users of the GQMS, including delivering training regarding the GQMS and compliance framework as directed.
- Provide GQMS administration support as needed, including contributing to testing of bugs and enhancements, supporting with development and maintenance of user guides, and supporting the continuous improvement of systems and processes.

**General**
- The Compliance Analyst will business partner, with internal stakeholders and act as a trusted adviser for general GQMS and compliance queries from Abt Australia and Abt Britain stakeholders
- Support the Global Compliance Lead with global compliance initiatives as needed
- Other reasonable duties as directed

**Key Selection Criteria**:

- Ideally 2-4 years years relevant experience in a corporate role.
- Bachelor's degree is desirable if not equivalent experience, or working towards completion of a degree.
- Proactive and collaborative team player with a customer centric approach to business partnering.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Experience in developing and/or quality assuring new policies and procedures.

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