• Hybrid role with 2 days a week in our Richmond office.
• 5 additional days of leave.
• Salary packaging benefits.

About us

At CBM Australia, our mission is to end the cycle of poverty and disability. Through our programs, technical advice, and advocacy, we help millions of people transform their lives each year. As Australia’s only international development organisation focused on disability inclusion our work improves the quality of life of people with disabilities living in the poorest countries.

Partnering with local organisations we build and promote an inclusive world in which all people with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential.

About the role

We have a rewarding opportunity for an experienced and driven Risk and Compliance Manager to join CBM Australia.

Reporting to the Director of Capability and Business Performance, you will form a part of the management team within the Business Operations department.

You will be responsible for:

Overseeing the compliance and risk ecosystem at CBM Australia:

• Working autonomously, you will provide leadership and cohesion across our collective practices in relation to our risk and compliance obligations.
• Monitor changes to regulatory obligations, socialise changes with relevant position holders and ensure CBM Australia documents are current and accurately meet requirements.

Safeguarding (Child Safeguarding and Prevention of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment):

• Work with relevant safeguarding focal points to support effective management of individual safeguarding incidents and associated reporting.
• Lead organisational awareness training on Safeguarding, working collaboratively with focal points across the organisation and Federation.

Compliance Audits, Alliance Standards and Reporting:

• Oversee CBM’s compliance with external regulations and manage all audits, submissions and accreditation assessments in conjunction with the relevant leading staff members at CBM.
• Maintain current knowledge about our regulatory partners and augment our approaches in line with any changing expectations.

Risk Management:

• Lead the management of the organisational risk registers (strategic and organisational), ensuring an effective process for maintenance by risk owners.
• Develop and deliver risk management training for the organisation to build understanding and buy-in to a collective risk management ethos in line with our risk management framework.

Please refer to the full Position Description for more details.

About you

We want someone who has the experience, knowledge, and skills to oversee regulatory and legislative requirements for an INGO at both the system and the detailed level. You are someone who is seeking to embed compliance obligations within business processes such that compliance is a regular part of the way we work.

This role would be perfect for someone with excellent planning and project management skills, the confidence to work across our organisation to build strong partnering relationships, and the ability to bring new ideas to support the achievement of our objectives.

To be considered for this role you will have:​

• Relevant tertiary qualifications (i.e. legal, audit, compliance, business, HR) with 3 years’ relevant work experience in leading risk and compliance practices.
• A belief in embedding compliance into everyday processes, rather than regarding it as a tick box exercise bolted on to everyday business practice.
• Exceptional planning skills that support an effective project management approach.
• Proficient in working in a digital technology environment, with interest in streamlining and transforming the way compliance is embedded into business processes.
• Strong self-motivation, organisational and time management skills, able to prioritise effectively and work independently with minimal supervision while also being a positive team player.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to build and maintain strong and collaborative relationships across the organisation.
• Experience with an INGO or other organisations where compliance obligations are set by external regulatory bodies.
• Enthusiasm for the mission of CBM Australia and alignment/comfort with being part of a faith-based organisation.

What we offer:

• The chance to make an impact that matters in a team of like-minded professionals.
• Flexible working arrangements.
• Hybrid role with 2 days in the office.
• 4 weeks annual leave.
• 5 additional days of leave.
• Salary packaging up to $15,900 + up to $2,650 for meals and entertainment.
• 8 weeks paid parental leave after 12 months of service.
• A work environment and values-driven culture that employees state in their feedback, is one of the most inclusive, caring, and enjoyable that they have ever worked in.

Please click Apply Now to submit your application.

CBM Australia is committed to workplace equity and diversity and encourages applications from candidates with diverse cultural backgrounds and people with lived experience of disability. Please contact [email protected] using the subject line: Risk and Compliance Manager role via Ethical Jobs for confidential support to ensure an equitable, barrier-free application process. We ensure that any information provided to the contact is private and confidential, will only be used to provide accommodations and will in no way determine the outcome of an application.

CBM Australia is committed to the safety and best interest of all children accessing CBM supported services and programs and workplace. Preferred candidates are advised that they will be required to sign the CBM Child Safeguarding Standard, and we reserve the right to conduct police checks and other screening procedures prior to employment being confirmed.

A position description is attached.