Manager - Quality & Compliance

Job Description • Overview and Objectives of the Position: The Quality and Compliance Manager ensures that ECU SL remains compliant with relevant non-financial registration and legislative requirements and provides advice and manages ECU SL governance processes. This role will embed quality practices including management and oversight of compliance and quality audits, accreditation and registration, continuous improvement of the policy framework, strategic and operational planning, reporting to legislative bodies, and overall compliance with the regulatory framework within which ECU SL operates. The role will operate within a dual-jurisdiction regulatory environment, ensuring alignment with both Australian and Sri Lankan legislative and regulatory requirements, as well as University partner and Navitas obligations. Act as a member of the ECU SL Senior Management Team. • Key Result Areas: Business Partnering • Provide compliance business partnering services to ECU SL Senior Management Team • Establish and maintain strong and effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders such as ECU SL executives, regulatory authorities and university partners • Participate in strategic planning with ECU SL executive • Deliver compliance training and induction to ECU SL staff • Work with Navitas’ UPA Governance, Risk & Compliance team where appropriate. Governance & Risk Management • Manage ECU SL governance structures, arrange and provide executive officer support to key decision making committees, including Management Team, Academic Board, Program Advisory Committees, and Joint Strategic Partnership Committees and other as appropriate • Oversee the governance cycle across the colleges ensuring compliance with Higher Education Standards • Provide leadership to ECU SL governance activities, including: • Reporting outcomes against objectives • Assist in curriculum change/modification approval • Develop Reports on ECU SL activities for consideration by Management Committee or Academic Board • Coordinate reports on benchmarking and tracer studies • Investigate, and provide unbiased findings, of student complaints and appeals for consideration at the Appeals Committee • Lead enterprise risk management processes with the executives of each ECU SL within the portfolio, including periodic risk assessments and reporting on outcomes through the governance structure Compliance • Provide strategic regulatory advice to ECU SL executives • Manage compliance with the regulatory framework and quality assurance processes, including requirements established through the Sri Lankan and Australian legislation. (Australian examples include, but not limited to: National Code, ESOS, Higher Education Threshold Standards, the Higher Education Support Act.) • Monitor and provide advisory information on Sri Lankan and Australian government changes to the higher education environment which impact on ECU SL • Monitor and facilitate ongoing continuous improvement of ECU SL policy framework to support revisions to government legislation and ongoing improvements to business processes • Manage and contribute to government registrations, accreditation, renewals and material changes in line with government regulatory requirements and ECU SL policy • Ensure timely reporting to legislative bodies both in Sri Lanka and Australia, as required …