Our Purpose Lighthouse Christian College seeks to represent the Lord Jesus Christ to our community. Students, staff, and families align with our Christ-centred values. We acknowledge the Holy Spirit’s power to transform lives. We were founded by Lighthouse Christian Church to teach, train, and disciple godly generations to impact their world. Through the Trinity, we discover our purpose in God the Father, our example in God the Son, and our power in God the Holy Spirit. Our Values Our focus is to develop and promote the values of humility, empowerment, authenticity, respect, and tenacity within the college community. We have a rich and exciting teaching and coeducational learning environment from ELC to Year 12. It is a community large enough to offer specialist personnel and small enough to remain intimate and caring. We have excellent, dedicated, well-qualified, and experienced teachers who keep abreast of best-practice pedagogy. Lighthouse Christian College has been named in the Top 1% of Primary Schools in Victoria and is the leading Victorian Christian school for achieving university placement. Position Summary The Risk & Compliance Officer plays a critical role in supporting the College's governance, risk management, policy compliance, and operational integrity. Reporting to the Deputy Principal, this position leads the implementation, monitoring and continuous improvement of compliance frameworks, risk management practices, policy administration and regulatory obligations across the College. The Risk & Compliance Officer promotes a proactive culture of compliance, accountability and risk awareness while ensuring the College meets its legislative, regulatory and registration requirements. The role partners with leaders across the College to identify, assess and manage organisational risks and support best-practice governance and operational processes. The role works closely with the Deputy Principal and other relevant leaders to coordinate the College’s child safety and wellbeing compliance, including risk register reviews, evidence management, monitoring and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities
1. Risk Management & Governance:
• Coordinate and maintain the College's enterprise risk management framework.
• Facilitate the identification, assessment, mitigation and monitoring of organisational risks.
• Support risk management processes relating to both in office and off-site activities, including camps, excursions and events.
• Monitor emerging risks and changes to legislation, standards and operational practices that may impact the College.
• Maintain risk registers and ensure regular review by risk owners.
• Prepare risk and compliance reports for the Executive Team, Board Committees and other governance forums as required.
• Attend and contribute to Risk and Governance Committee meetings.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives arising from audits, reviews, incidents and compliance activities.
• Provide expert advice to College leadership on risk and compliance matters. 2. Compliance & Policy Management:
• Coordinate the development, review, implementation and communication of College policies and procedures.
• Maintain a central policy register that records each policy’s owner, approval authority, review date,



current version and publication location.
• Coordinate the policy review schedule by notifying policy owners, providing review templates and tracking consultation, approval, publication and review dates.
• Ensure compliance with all legislative, regulatory and school registration requirements.
• Monitor and track compliance obligations and reporting deadlines.
• Coordinate evidence collection and documentation required for compliance audits, registrations and reviews.
• Ensure policy and procedural documentation remains current, accessible and aligned with legislative obligations and best practice.
• Advise leadership and relevant stakeholders of legislative or regulatory changes affecting College operations.
• Support implementation of compliance improvement initiatives across all operational areas. 3. Child Safety Compliance & Assurance
• Work closely with the Deputy Principal and designated College leaders to monitor and coordinate the implementation of the College’s Child Safety Framework, policies and procedures.
• Coordinate the scheduled review of child safety risk registers with relevant risk owners, including the collection of evidence, recording of control changes and tracking of agreed actions.
• Monitor child safety compliance requirements and review dates and promptly escalate identified gaps or overdue actions to the relevant leader.
• Maintain organised records and evidence of child safety policies, training, risk reviews, compliance activities and improvement actions to support internal assurance, governance reporting and regulatory reviews.
• Support the review of child safety practices following audits, incidents, complaints, changes in requirements or other identified risks. 4. Systems Administration & Compliance Platforms:
• Actively manage and administer compliance and risk management systems including:
- Ideagen policy Connect
- Consent2Go
- SAM4Schools
• Other compliance and governance platforms as required.
• Ensure policy libraries, compliance registers and training records remain current and accurate.
• Maintain organisational compliance workflows and reporting processes.
• Support staff in the effective use of compliance-related systems.
• Monitor system effectiveness and recommend enhancements where appropriate. 5. Incident Management & Reporting:
• Coordinate the reporting, investigation and monitoring of incidents, accidents, complaints and compliance breaches.
• Support leaders to identify root causes and implement corrective actions.
• Maintain accurate incident records and reporting registers.
• Analyse incident trends and provide recommendations to reduce organisational risk.
• Ensure reportable incidents are managed and escalated in accordance with legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate timely reporting to relevant authorities where required. 6.



Occupational Health & Safety:
• Support the implementation and maintenance of the College's Occupational Health and Safety framework.
• Coordinate workplace risk assessments and hazard management processes.
• Provide advice and support to staff regarding OH&S; obligations and safe work practices.
• Coordinate relevant OH&S; training and awareness activities.
• Contribute as a member of the College OH&S; Committee.
• Promote a positive safety culture that supports staff and student wellbeing. 7. Training, Education & Continuous Improvement:
• Design and deliver training programs that strengthen risk and compliance awareness.
• Coordinate the monitoring and recording of required child safety training and policy acknowledgements for relevant staff, volunteers and governing authority members.
• Coordinate staff compliance training and professional learning requirements.
• Monitor staff completion of mandatory training modules.
• Develop practical resources to assist staff in understanding compliance obligations.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and accountability across the College. Capability Requirements

Qualifications:
Essential
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Health & Safety, Governance, Risk Management, Compliance Law, or a related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
• Current Employee Working with Children Check.
• Current National Police Check. Desirable
• Formal qualifications in risk management, compliance or governance.
• Experience within the education sector.
• Experience using Ideagen policy Connect or similar governance and compliance platforms. Knowledge, Skills & Experience Essential
• Demonstrated experience managing compliance, governance, risk or policy frameworks.
• Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly develop knowledge of, Victorian school child safety and wellbeing requirements, including the Child Safe Standards and Ministerial Order No. 1359.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain accurate, confidential records and handle sensitive information appropriately.
• Strong understanding of legislative and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Experience interpreting legislation and translating complex requirements into practical organisational processes.
• Highly developed analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management capability.
• Advanced administrative and reporting skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines. Desirable
• Formal qualifications in risk management, compliance or governance.
• Experience within the education sector.
• Experience using Ideagen policy Connect or similar governance and compliance platforms. Child Safety Commitment Lighthouse Christian College is committed to promoting and protecting the interests and safety of children. All employees are expected to actively support and comply with the College's Child Safety Framework, policies and procedures, including mandatory reporting obligations and behaviour standards. For more information contact Suzette Prins at [email protected]

📌 Risk Compliance Officer (Melbourne)
🏢 Lighthouse Christian College - Keysborough
📍 Melbourne