Principal Regulatory Officer - Early Childhood Regional Operations - Metropolitan North Region

Queensland Department of Education – Queensland

The Principal Regulatory Officer leads complex regulatory activities within the Early Childhood Regulatory Authority, ensuring early childhood education and care services complywith relevant legislation and quality standards to protect children's safety and wellbeing.

The role involves conducting and guiding sensitive investigations, analysingcompliance and risk data, providing expert regulatory advice, preparing investigation reports and briefs, resolving stakeholder issues, and mentoring team members to strengtheninvestigative capability and regulatory practice.

The Early Childhood Regulatory Authority's Metropolitan North Region regulates approximately 500 early childhood education and care services across two teams, with a focus on protecting children's safety health, safety and wellbeing.

Your chance:

As Principal Regulatory Officer, you will lead investigations into alleged legislative breaches, guide regulatory decisions and provide expert advice to ensure services meet required standards. You will also prepare investigation reports and briefs of evidence, mentor team members, and apply a risk-based regulatory approach. Role based at Nundah.



Role potentially involves exposure to distressing matters regarding harm to children.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

- Undertaking regulatory activities, making recommendations and decisions that support the Regulatory Authority functions under the legislation and in accordance with the principles of good administrative decision making.
- Modeling strong investigative skills to build capability of team members regarding investigations.
- Assessing early education and care services under a national quality framework.
- Applying effective record keeping practices and using regulatory systems to capture accurate and timely data and regularly monitoring and reviewing data quality.
- Providing reliable advice to support the Regulatory Authority leadership team and external stakeholders including regulatedservice providers, the general public and other agencies.

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.

Contact Name: Esther Blest, Director ***
Closing Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026

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📌 Principal Regulatory Officer - Early Childhood Regional Operations - Metropolitan North Region (Brisbane)
🏢 Queensland Department of Education
📍 Brisbane