Chief Quality, Risk & Compliance Leader (2-Year Contract)

Mallee District Aboriginal Services; Mildura; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mallee District Aboriginal Services (MDAS) in Mildura, VIC, seeks a Head of Quality, Risk & Compliance to lead an integrated framework across sites. Reporting to the CEO, you will translate regulatory obligations into culturally safe improvements, guide risk management, and ensure service accountability to the community.

You will build capability across leaders and staff, manage audits and investigations, and collaborate with Elders and the Cultural Practice Team to uphold MDAS Lore and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading quality, risk, or compliance systems, preferably in a community services or health setting.
• Executive advisory skills using data to shape risk decisions and evidence base corrective actions.
• Experience in risk management frameworks and monitoring compliance with legislative, regulatory, and funding obligations.
• Working knowledge of privacy and health records legislation; Indigenous Data Sovereignty principles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and develop a multidisciplinary team and drive change.
• Minimum 10 years’ management level experience leading organisational wide improvement or compliance activities.
• Current National Police Check.
• Current Employee Working with Children Check
• Current Driver's Licence.

Responsibilities

• Drive MDAS’s mandatory compliance with Victorian Child Safe Standards to ensure the organisation’s leadership, governance and culture is focused on child safeguarding and empowerment.
• Build the capability of leaders and staff across all MDAS sites to own quality, risk, and compliance in their own programs.
• Maintain a register of legal, regulatory, and funding obligations and monitor compliance with funding agreements and reporting deadlines.
• Lead the Risk Management Framework to identify emerging and serious operational or service exposures to inform accountability structures and mitigation strategies.
• Direct Reportable Conduct Scheme notifications and investigation process and coordinate MDAS’s activities as a participating organization in National Redress Scheme matters, if required.
• Partner with the Cultural Practice Team and Elders so audits, investigations and improvement activities are culturally safe for staff, clients, and families.

Skills

Quality management

Risk management

Compliance systems

Executive advisory skills

Leadership

Education

Tertiary qualification in a relevant field

Job description

Mallee District Aboriginal Services (MDAS) in Mildura, VIC, seeks a Head of Quality, Risk & Compliance to lead an integrated framework across sites. Reporting to the CEO, you will translate regulatory obligations into culturally safe improvements, guide risk management, and ensure service accountability to the community.

You will build capability across leaders and staff, manage audits and investigations, and collaborate with Elders and the Cultural Practice Team to uphold MDAS Lore and