At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead investigations and ensure compliance in early childhood education services.
- Company: Join the Early Childhood Regulatory Authority, focused on children's safety and wellbeing.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for mentorship and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in children's lives while developing your regulatory expertise.
- Qualifications: Experience in regulatory activities and strong investigative skills required.
The predicted salary is between 59400 - 72600 $ per year.
The Principal Regulatory Officer leads complex regulatory activities within the Early Childhood Regulatory Authority, ensuring early childhood education and care services comply with relevant legislation and quality standards to protect children's safety and wellbeing.
The role involves conducting and guiding sensitive investigations, analysing compliance and risk data, providing expert regulatory advice, preparing investigation reports and briefs, resolving stakeholder issues, and mentoring team members to strengthen investigative 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, and wellbeing.
Your Opportunity
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. The 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 regulated service 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 0436 861 990
Closing Date: Thursday, 12 November 2026
Occupational group: Education & Training
Principal Regulatory Officer – Metropolitan North Region in Brisbane employer: Queensland Government
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