Senior Risk Officer

About Us

• Suitable opportunity for someone seeking full-time employment 
• Opportunity to work within a purpose led organisation
• Tax-free salary packaging benefits 

The St Vincent de Paul Society is a leading provider of community support services, whose values  it is to shape a more just and compassionate society. 

We believe our employees are key to our success and offer Learning and Development programs to enhance and grow your career across a range of teams and services.  Our employees are recognised for their achievements and offered promotional opportunities on a meritocracy basis within a collegiate and values driven team environment and culture.  

The Society recognises the value of an inclusive work environment and believes that our diversity is a strength in the work we do with our local communities. 

Your Role

As the Senior Risk Officer, you will be responsible to Provide high level risk and compliance advice; ensure the Society effectively meets its legislative, regulatory and compliance requirements; and embed effective risk and compliance frameworks across the Society.

Your Responsibility

• Facilitate development and maintenance of the Society’s risk registers
• Help embed the systematic identification, evaluation and mitigation of risk in business-as-usual practice across the organisation
• Provide advice and support to the organisation to increase our maturity in risk management
• Support implementation of an enterprise-wide Compliance Framework, ensuring compliance obligations are understood, managed and reported on
• Support service accreditation processes and external body audits
• Oversight business continuity plans

You Will Need

• Relevant tertiary qualification/s and/or experience in risk and compliance in the government or not-for- profit sector.
• Experience in implementing best practice risk and compliance frameworks.
• Project management experience in a government or not for profit environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills, with a proven ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills including the ability to develop reports, briefing papers and other documents accurately and in short time frames.

Apply Now

If this sounds like you, don’t wait - apply now, we are interviewing applications as we receive them.

St Vincent de Paul Society (NSW) welcomes people from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to engaging a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQIA+, candidates of any or no religious beliefs and applicants of all ages. If you are a candidate with disability please let us know if you require any support to participate in the application and recruitment process.

The Society is committed to being a Child Safe organisation, further information can be found in the Society’s commitment to Safeguarding Children & Young People. Prior to an offer of employment, candidates will be required to complete the pre-employment checks including a Police check & Working with Children check. A health / medical assessment may be required for some roles