Investigate emerging safety and compliance issues relating to listed medicines, assess complex scientific and regulatory evidence, and contribute to risk-based compliance and enforcement action.

Key responsibilities

- Triaging and risk assessing complaints, referrals, intelligence, safety signals and other potential non-compliance.
- Independently managing moderately complex compliance investigations, including gathering and critically evaluating scientific, clinical and regulatory evidence.
- Interpreting therapeutic goods legislation, standards and guidelines and developing timely, evidence-based recommendations for appropriate compliance or enforcement action.
- Managing competing priorities and engaging with internal and external stakeholders to progress emerging and high-priority matters.

Key capabilities:
- Strong critical thinking, research and analytical skills, with the ability to assess complex information and develop sound, evidence-based recommendations.
- Demonstrated expertise in regulatory compliance and enforcement.
- Comprehensive understanding of therapeutic goods regulation and associated legislative, policy and governance frameworks.
- Extensive experience assessing medicine and therapeutic positive safety, quality and efficacy, including the interpretation of clinical and scientific evidence to inform risk-based regulatory decisions.
- Highly developed analytical and investigative skills, with the ability to identify, assess and respond to compliance, safety and regulatory signals.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly communicate complex regulatory, scientific and technical matters.




- Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgement and problem solve, including making risk-based recommendations in complex or uncertain circumstances.
- Demonstrated ability to work under limited direction, manage competing priorities and collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

- To be eligible for employment with the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, applicants must be an Australian citizen at the time an offer of employment is made.
- An applicant’s suitability for employment with Health will also be assessed through a variety of pre-employment check processes, such as:
- Satisfactory completion of a criminal history check, and where relevant, a Working with Children and Vulnerable People Check,
- Completion of a medical declaration and pre-employment medical (where required),
- Providing evidence of qualifications (where required), and
- Obtaining and maintaining a security clearance at the required level.

- To be eligible for the role, applicants must hold a formal qualification in health, medicine, science, science/law or any other relevant discipline from an Australian tertiary institution or comparable overseas qualification.

- Applications close 11:30pm AEDT.
- Applicants are asked to quote reference number 26-MRDIV-32313 to assist when making an enquiry.
- This recruitment process is being used to fill both ongoing and non-ongoing positions. Non-ongoing positions will be offered on a specified term basis for an initial period of up to 12 months with the possibility of being extended (this will not exceed a total of 24 months in the same or similar role).

📌 APS Level 6 - Compliance Evaluator - Listing Compliance Section (Adelaide)
🏢 Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
📍 Adelaide