Employment type: Ongoing - full time

About the Role

An exciting opportunity exists for a highly self-motivated team player to join our VRQA Schools Division as a Senior Quality Assurance Officer. You will play a key role in ensuring that students receive a quality education in safe and well governed environments.  This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career and to have an impact on the Victorian education system.

The position works collaboratively with other VRQA teams to ensure the effective regulation of non-government and government registered schools (including providers to international students), school boarding premises, non-school registered providers and not-for-profit student exchange organisations. The primary purpose of this role is to assure the compliance of duty holders with the minimum standards for registration, including the Child Safe Standards. You will spend a significant amount of time assessing evidence, undertaking stakeholder engagement (including visiting schools and other providers) in addition to writing assessment reports to meet agreed timelines. Extensive induction training will be provided.

To be successful in this regulatory role, you will be a collaborative team player with excellent analytical, communication and project management skills. Experience in working in a government context will be highly regarded. It is a condition of ongoing employment that successful candidates hold a valid Victorian Working with Children Check.

Attributes

The successful applicant will have be a team player, have excellent communication skills, project management skills and have experience in regulation, assurance, compliance, or legal settings.

Desirable Qualifications and Experience

You have experience in regulation, compliance, assurance or legal settings. Experience in working in a government context will be highly regarded. It is a condition of ongoing employment that successful candidates hold a valid Victorian Working with Children Check.

How to apply:

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description.  Applications should include:

• A cover letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria (maximum of two pages); and
• A current Resume outlining your qualifications and experience

About the Department

The department provides a wide range of learning and development support and services.

The department provides policy leadership, plans for the future of education in Victoria and leads key cross-sector collaboration. The department plays an important system steward role by providing support, guidance, oversight and assurance across early childhood and school education systems, as well as directly providing school education and 50 new early learning centres.

About the Division

The VRQA is the Victorian schools, apprenticeships and traineeships regulator, a statutory entity with independent functions that is part of the Department of Education, also reporting to an independent board. The Schools Division of the VRQA is responsible for registering all Victorian schools, and in the process ensuring they meet child safety and other obligations. It is also responsible for undertaking reviews of schools and other related providers to ensure they are continuing to meet their obligations. It works closely with a range of external stakeholders to deliver this function, including applicants wishing to become school proprietors, existing schools, various areas of the Department of Education, the Victorian Catholic Education Authority, Independent Schools Victoria, the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority, other national and state regulators and independent reviewers the VRQA engages.

Further Information

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description for the capabilities to address in application.

The department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website and our Diversity and Inclusion page

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

Information about the Department of Education's operations and employment conditions can be located at www.education.vic.gov.au.

For further information pertaining to the role, please contact Annie Tinney – Deputy CEO, Schools via annie.tinney@education.vic.gov.au.

Preferred applicants may be required to complete a police check and may be subject to other pre-employment checks. Information provided to the Department of Education will be treated in the strictest confidence.

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Applications close 11:59pm on Tuesday, 24 November 2026