Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $116,413 - $140,849
Grade: VPS 5
Occupation: Governance and risk management
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: VG/DE/VECRA/1956494
About VECRA
The Victorian Early Childhood Regulatory Authority (VECRA) is Victoria's independent early childhood education and care regulator. Our job is to ensure that Victoria's early childhood services are providing safe, high-quality education and care that children need to thrive.
VECRA carries out the regulatory functions of the Victorian Regulatory Authority and has oversight of more than 5,000 early childhood education and care services operating across the Victoria is undertaken through licensing, assessment and rating of quality, compliance monitoring, investigation and enforcement functions.
Compliance and Enforcement Branch
The Compliance and Enforcement Branch comprises several specialist regulatory teams with responsibility for VECRA's compliance and enforcement functions. The Branch also facilitates risk-based regulation through the analysis of risk intelligence and provides expert regulatory advice, strategic direction, and leadership on a broad range of regulatory issues and complex compliance and enforcement matters.
About the Team
The Joint Compliance and Monitoring Team functions as a critical component of the regulators high-risk compliance and enforcement capability. The team undertakes targeted, intelligence-informed monitoring and compliance activities in relation to high-risk early childhood education and care services. The current team draws on the cross functional capability including intelligence analysis, inspections and enforcement. They also work closely with co-regulators and other state and territory regulators, conducting co-regulatory activities to ensure sound regulatory practice, judgement and decision making.
About the Role
The Senior Compliance and Program Officer plays a critical role enforcing non-compliance with relevant laws and regulations to ensure children attending early childhood education and care service are safe from harm and can maximise their educational and developmental opportunities. The position holder is expected to be able to demonstrate expertise in contemporary risk-based regulation, behavioural compliance and the ability to undertake complex audits, reviews and/or investigations to motivate or enforce compliance with the relevant laws and regulations and deter non-compliance.
The Senior Compliance Officer will undertake a range of compliance and enforcement related activities and be expected to have expertise:
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
Essential
Required to hold a valid Working with Children Check and Victorian driver's licence
Further Information
Applicants are required to submit a CV and cover letter (max 2 pages for cover letter) summarising their skills, relevant experience and suitability against the requirements of the role.
For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.
The Authority values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. VECRA's corporate HR services are provided by the Department of Education. For more information about our work, working for the VECRA, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page.
Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.
Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.
For further information about the role, please contact Leanne Pallot, Manager, Joint Compliance and Monitoring via [email protected] or 0428 234 157.
Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.
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Applications close 11:59pm on 20 November 2026.