Director, Regulation – Standards

We are looking for great administrative decision-making skills, strong leadership ability, a passion for innovation, and the motivation to drive improved outcomes for children in early childhood education and care services in Queensland.

This role has particular leadership responsibility for performance, process improvement and “RegTech„ so if this sounds like your regulatory interest, please get in touch.

About The Department Of Education

The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

About The Role

As Director, Regulation, you will lead a team in the delivery of best-practice risk-based regulation, ensuring high quality decision making and driving continuous quality improvement.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Developing, implementing and evaluating frameworks, systems, tools and processes to ensure consistency, fairness, efficiency and effectiveness in regulatory practice.
• Implementing effective processes for work planning, resource allocation and prioritisation of regulatory effort based on an intelligence- and data-led assessment of risk.
• Providing oversight, guidance and support to ensure high quality regulatory decision-making, as well as leadership for high risk and complex matters.
• Providing expert independent analysis and advice to the Minister and senior officers.
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the Regulatory Authority and forming strategic networks with other government departments and agencies.
• Driving a culture of effective stakeholder engagement with the early childhood education and care sector.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

How To Apply

• Applicants should submit a current CV with details for two referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant previous work history) together with a no more than 2 page application setting out:
• your interest in the position; and
• how your knowledge, skills and experience equip you to make a success of the role.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).

The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace.? Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies.

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