Join our Team

• Drive implementation, monitoring and improvement of systems and processes to ensure business governance and compliance
• Permanent role | Part time 23 hours/week
• Work from Home & Heidelberg Location

Mind Australia is one of the country’s leading community-managed specialist mental health service providers with a range of residential, mobile outreach, centre based and online services. We have been supporting people living with the day-to-day impacts of mental illness, as well as their families, friends and carers for over 40 years.

We provide practical and motivational support that helps people to develop the skills they need to move on, thrive and improve the quality of their lives. It’s an approach to mental health and wellbeing that looks at the whole person in the context of their daily life. Mind is committed to diversity and social inclusion.

About the role

The Haven Foundation (THF), a subsidiary of Mind, is a community housing provider building and providing safe, stable housing and support solutions for people living with complex mental ill health and psychosocial disability. In partnership with the Enterprise Risk and Governance business unit, THF will provide organisational risk, compliance and assurance services, systems and processes to Mind and its controlled entities. Working collaboratively with internal stakeholders, Enterprise Risk and Governance aims to achieve consistent service delivery and comply with internal and external policy, standards and practice.

We are seeking an experienced, dynamic Governance & Compliance Partner for a permanent, part time (23 hours per week) opportunity to work at our Central Office in the Heidelberg area. With work from home options, you will implement, monitor and improve compliance and governance systems, tools and processes to support service delivery. The Governance & Compliance Partner will support the community housing and residential services to meet compliance standards, regulations, and policy.

Key responsibilities

• Provide advice and support the business to manage and understand legislative and regulatory compliance obligations.
• Lead development and coordination of an effective enterprise compliance framework.
• Monitor and manage compliance registers, drive compliance reporting processes and act as the contact for community housing regulators.
• Support risk management activities to aide maturity development and assist Managers to identify compliance and business risk.
• Develop tools and practice guides to implement legislation, standards, contracts, policy and procedure requirements, quality management and safeguarding practices.

What you’ll bring

• Tertiary degree qualifications in Business Management, Finance, Risk Management, Compliance or other related field and/or equivalent experience in a similar industry.
• Previous experience in Compliance, Governance or Risk Management in a complex service delivery business.
• Proven knowledge of community housing legislative and regulatory compliance obligations, risk management processes, and governance frameworks is highly desirable.
• Experience in administering and implementing risk, compliance and assurance systems and/or solutions.
• Ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders and work collaboratively supporting operational compliance and risk needs.

Benefits

• Attractive Not For Profit Salary Packaging benefits up to $15,900pa.
• Flexible work arrangements to suit your lifestyle!
• Learning, development and career opportunities.

Interested?

To obtain a position description and apply online visit Mind Careers - reference number 492762. Online applications must be submitted by 11pm Wednesday 8 February 2023. Please contact the person below for more information.

Mind strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people with a lived experience of mental ill health and recovery, and applicants from all cultures, genders, sexualities, bodies, abilities, spiritualities, ages and backgrounds. The successful applicant is required to complete comprehensive reference and background checking prior to employment, including a Working with Children Check, NDIS Workers Screening Check and the ability to obtain vaccinations against COVID-19.

 PD Governance & Compliance Partner (Enterprise, Risk & Governance THF) 20230130.pdf