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About the Role
This is a unique opportunity to play a critical leadership role in maintaining and strengthening education standards across NSW. As Senior Inspector, Regulation of Schooling, you will provide professional and policy leadership and operational oversight of NESA's regulatory programs, helping to ensure schools and education providers meet legislative and regulatory requirements. The role offers the opportunity to influence regulatory practice, contribute to policy development, lead complex reviews and investigations, and work closely with senior stakeholders across the education sector. Working in a diverse and dynamic regulatory environment, you will engage with a broad range of stakeholders and contribute to decisions that support quality education outcomes for students across NSW.
Responsibilities
- Providing professional leadership and operational oversight of one or more regulatory programs, including non-government school registration and accreditation, recognition and CRICOS approvals and internal reviews.
- Reviewing and analysing applications, evidence and documentation against legislative, policy and regulatory requirements.
- Planning and conducting on-site inspections, reviews and investigations using a risk-based approach to assess compliance and inform regulatory decisions.
- Preparing high-quality reports, recommendations, briefings, correspondence and advice for senior decision-makers and committees.
- Monitoring compliance frameworks and regulatory systems across government and non-government schooling sectors.
- Providing expert advice to support the development and implementation of policies, procedures and data management practices associated with NESA's regulatory functions.
- Building and maintaining productive relationships with schools, sector representatives, government agencies and other stakeholders to support regulatory outcomes.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience leading complex regulatory, compliance, audit, review or inspection activities within a legislative and policy framework.
- Proven ability to analyse complex information, exercise sound judgement and develop practical solutions in environments with competing priorities, emerging issues and high levels of accountability.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across diverse groups and manage sensitive matters with professionalism and integrity.
- Experience leading teams, providing professional oversight and contributing to organisational improvement initiatives in a complex operating environment.
- Strong report writing and briefing skills, including the ability to communicate complex regulatory and technical matters clearly to a range of audiences.
- Extensive working knowledge and understanding of current and emerging registration, accreditation, recognition and CRICOS approval legislation, policies, trends and issues.
- Recent sound experience in monitoring the compliance of schools with regulatory requirements using a risk-based approach.
- Tertiary teaching qualifications
- A NSW Driver's licence.
- A valid and current NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC) for paid employment.
Skills
- Stakeholder engagement
- Communication
- Influencing
- Collaboration
- Report writing
- Briefing
- Risk-based approach
Location
- Hybrid work arrangements available
Work Type
- Full-time
- Ongoing role
Experience Level
- Chief Education Officer Grade 2
Education Level
- Tertiary teaching qualifications
Salary/Compensations
- $222,174 p.a. plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and leave loading
Benefits
- Salary packaging options
- Working in a purpose driven and ethical organisation with committed colleagues.
About the Company
- At the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), we are dedicated to carrying out meaningful work that drives improvements and elevates student achievement across NSW, now and into the future.
- We accomplish this by supporting all school sectors with high-quality syllabuses, assessment (including managing the HSC and NAPLAN), teaching standards (e.g., accrediting teachers) and school environments (including setting and monitoring school standards).
- NESA is a unique organisation in NSW (of around 740FTE staff) with significant state-wide impact.
Equal Opportunity
- We particularly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people of all ages, genders, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and the LGBTQIA+ community.