Risk And Compliance Coordinator

**Risk and Compliance Coordinator**
Canowindra Campus (Taylors Lakes) and Yirramboi Campus (Keilor)

Full-time (1.0 FTE) Ongoing Role

**ABOUT OVERNEWTON COLLEGE**

Overnewton Anglican Community College is a co-educational Preparatory to Year 12 College catering for

approximately 2,000 students across two campuses located in Keilor and Taylors Lakes.***

Overnewton Anglican Community College strives to be an inclusive learning community, providing a respectful

environment where students aspire to excellence in a broad range of curricular and co-curricular opportunities. We

value our Christian foundation, and the importance of parents as active members of our College family, as we work

together, endeavoring to prepare each of our students to be mentally, physically and spiritually ready for life.

All staff, currently numbering approximately 350, participate in the full life of Overnewton College, including

being supportive of our Christian ethos and contributing to the breadth and depth of our student and staff programs.

Joining Overnewton College means being part of an inspiring, caring and professional community, innately

believing that students are at the centre of our decisions.

**Position Description**

**Position Title Risk and Compliance Coordinator**

**Campus Cross Campus**

**Reports To **Director of Human Resources.

**Position Summary **The Risk and Compliance Officer will work with key stakeholders to coordinate the

Risk Control Framework and all compliance obligations for the College. This

significant role will ensure contemporary, fit for purpose programs, policies,

procedures, and practices support a positive and compliant risk management culture,

supporting the achievement of a secure workplace, free from harm and risk, so far as

is practical.

The risk profile of the school may be categorised as:

- Health and Safey
- Technological
- Operational
- Financial
- Organisational
- Legal and Regulatory

**Key Relationships **- School Principal
- Director of Human Resources
- Business Manager
- Deputy Principals/Heads of Campus
- Members of the College Leadership Team
- Wider College personnel including teachers and administrative staff
- Work Safe
- Occupational Health and Safety _(OHS)_ representatives
- Work Cover
- Insurers
- Professional advisory bodies

**Key Responsibilities 1. Coordinating the College's safe work environment**
- Work with key stakeholders to maintain a safe environment for all staff,

students, contractors, families and any other visitors to the College (_College _
- Personnel). _This extends to monitoring environments that College personnel

may visit, external to the college grounds, and may include online, third party

providers and excursion environments.
- Assist in monitoring and ensuring compliance with AS45001, the

Occupational Health Safety Act 2004, the Victorian Work Safe Codes of

Practice, Victorian Workplace Rehabilitation, Accident Compensation,

Workers Compensation, regulation, and statutory rules and as these are

modified and replaced from time to time.
- Participate in OH&S Committee meetings and to chair / minute meetings if

requested.
- Assist in investigating and reporting on incidents, recommending corrective

and preventative actions.
- Conduct Work Health and Safety audits.
- Facilitate Work Health and Safety workshops and training.
- Support the administration of the College's Emergency and Critical Incident

Management plans.

**2. Risk Management**
- Keep abreast of industry risk management updates and changes.
- Assist in ensuring that appropriate programs and tools are developed and

utilised by all staff to improve the risk management competencies, so that

positive risk evaluation is embedded in College Culture.
- Assist in maintaining a contemporary and appropriate risk management

standard for services that are outsourced or where contractual agreements are

in place for service delivery.
- Manage and keep the Risk Management Register up to date, including

assessing, monitoring and reporting on risk controls.
- Develop succinct and informative reporting on the Risk Management

Framework for reporting to the College Leadership Team, Audit, Risk and

Compliance and Governance Sub Committees, of the College and School

Board.
- Analyse accident and incident reporting for trends and work with key

stakeholders to make recommendations for correcting physical, reputational,

security, strategic, regulatory and operational conditions.
- Support all staff to develop and undertake pro-active risk assessments / hazard

identification and recommend mitigation actions.
- Coordinate risk assessments, where external specialist advice is required.
- Work on special projects pertaining to risk management as required.
- Become a member of and actively participate in the Independent Schools Risk

Management network.

**3. Compliance**
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive compliance calendar.
- Support the Offices of the Business Mana