Head Of Governance, Risk & Compliance

• Lead internal and external risk and assurance

• Support the COO, Board and Executive

• Flexibility in working location

About the organisation
The Bendigo Kangan Institute (BKI) is a major training provider for the automotive, health and nursing sectors, and indigenous education. With over 30,000 enrolments each year, BKI has a strong presence in a range of industries such as fashion, business as well as justice and legal and has developed a market leading industry partnership model. BKI is one of the state's largest providers of apprenticeship and traineeship training, ranging from basic certificates to diploma and advanced diploma levels delivering across ten campuses stretching from Docklands to Echuca. They aim to empower people and industry as a leading educator and trainer in work and life skills, making a real difference for students and industry across the communities they serve.
About the role
The Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance leads the development and implementation of the risk, integrity, information and privacy, and compliance frameworks ensuring that risk is integrated into decision making and rigorously identified, managed and monitored. The role provides support and advice relating to governance, risk and compliance aspects of contracts while developing and implementing a compliance framework to ensure a culture of compliance is driven and embedded. Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, this role brings innovation and forward thinking to BKI while supporting executive leadership in providing reports to the Board, its Committees, and the Executive on risk, compliance, feedback and audit matters.
About you
You are a commercial risk management and governance professional ideally with experience in the education or for purpose sectors. A trusted advisor, your ability to drive and embed a best practice risk framework and robust internal quality control processes is complimented by your business acumen and lateral approach. Adopting a collaborative mindset and exercising commercial judgement, you build productive cross-functional relationships that facilitate informed business decisions and achieve organisational outcomes. You are proactive and have strong interpersonal skills to influence a diverse range of stakeholders in an environment with a multitude of regulatory compliance obligations. Highly aligned to the values of BKI, you are attracted to a regional education and training setting and driven by the opportunity to leave a legacy where students are supported to succeed, feel empowered and go on to positively benefit communities.
For more information, please see the Position Description or contact Jacinta Maguire at SHK on or click 'Apply for this job'. Please submit your resume in Microsoft Word format. Direct and third-party applications will be forwarded to SHK.