Risk and Compliance Partner

About you - your impact and contribution

Your contribution will ensure that our activities comply with our legislative obligations while fostering a culture of risk-based decision making throughout the organisation. The Risk and Compliance Partner will lead the initiatives to identify, assess and mitigate organisational risks, including the wellbeing of employees.

Combining your enthusiasm for compliance oversight and your demonstrated experience in risk and WHS management, you will:

• Enterprise Risk Management
• Develop and implement an Enterprise Risk Framework across ONRSR in line with the relevant Standards.
• Ensure the management and maintenance of the enterprise risk registers, consulting with relevant stakeholders to ensure risk reviews and control assessments are regularly undertaken.
• Identify, assess and manage psychosocial risks in the workplace in partnership with the People & Capability team to implement appropriate controls and risk management support.
• Monitor and review the effectiveness of psychosocial risk management strategies and make necessary adjustments.
• Prepare high-quality enterprise risk reports for the Risk Committee, The Executive, the Audit and Risk Committee and ONRSR Members Meeting to support decision making and management of risk.
• Perform the Secretariat role for the ONRSR Risk Committee, responsible for developing the Committee Agenda and coordinating the development and distribution of papers to Members, drafting Minutes and managing action items arising from meetings.
• Conduct internal risk assessments, identifying risk areas in the organisation and recommending solutions to reduce risks to the Director, Governance & Risk.
• Deliver projects to develop and implement systems for the identification, recording, monitoring, reporting and mitigation of risk and compliance.
• Provide advice and recommendations to assist with the development and review of policies and procedures to ensure risks are appropriately managed and compliance with legislation, regulations and industry standards.
• Undertake management of the enterprise risk management systems.
• Manage relevant governance annual attestation processes.

Work, Health & Safety

• Support the Director, Governance & Risk to establish and embed the WHS and Injury Management compliance and governance framework, including maintaining relevant policies, procedures and processes.
• Chair the WHS Working Group, co-ordinate the meetings, develop and distribute papers, follow up action items and communicate meeting minutes to all staff.
• Collaborate with the People & Capability team to assist with guidance on workplace injuries, injury management and support work cover claims.

Business Continuity
 

• Work with relevant teams to establish and maintain appropriate business continuity and emergency management frameworks, policies and procedures.
   

Special conditions that apply to this role include: 

• On occasions, this role may require you to work outside of normal business hours, on weekends and public holidays. 
• There is a requirement to travel which will include short stays in ONRSR interstate offices. 
• Required to complete a national police check
• Hold and maintain the right to work in Australia

Our Organisation and Culture

The Office of the National Rail Safety Regulator (ONRSR) has the responsibility for regulatory oversight of rail safety throughout Australia. As an independent regulatory authority, ONRSR pursues safe railways for Australia by encouraging safe rail operations, enforcing national compliance with the Rail Safety National Law and promoting and improving rail safety across the country.

Be part of a values-led organisation with a strong commitment to its Culture Blueprint - the foundation for our purposeful, diverse and inclusive workplace and a key contributor to how we achieve our vision of Safe Railways for all Australians.