About Us

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 Manager Risk and Compliance, you will build the Society’s risk maturity, embed effective risk and compliance frameworks across the Society, and foster a risk aware culture supported by relevant capabilities. 

Your Responsibility

• Lead implementation of the enterprise Risk Management Framework 
• Develop and implement systems and processes to embed the effective identification, assessment and management of risks across the organisation 
• Ensure effective risk measurement and reporting 
• Provide advice and support to the organisation to build risk capabilities and embed risk assessment in operational and strategic decision-making 
• Develop an enterprise-wide Compliance Framework and manage its implementation, ensuring compliance obligations are understood, managed and reported on 
• Oversight business continuity plan testing and improvement 
• Support service accreditation processes and external audits 
• Support specific strategic projects as required. 
• Contribute to a safe working environment for members, volunteers and employees by implementing the Society’s workplace health and safety practice 

You Will Need

• Relevant tertiary qualification/s and/or experience in risk and compliance in a relevant sector. 
• Experience implementing best practice risk and compliance frameworks. 
• Project management experience, including the ability to effectively manage change in large, complex organisations. 
• 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. 
• Understanding of current issues facing the not-for-profit sector and incorporated not for profit organisations. 

Apply Now

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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.