Academic Compliance Officer
Who is Tabor
We are a Private Higher Education Provider, providing tertiary education with a Christian perspective within a more personal learning community. We are not only passionate about our student’s academic growth but also their personal and spiritual growth. Our Faculties include Ministry Practice, Humanities and Social Sciences and Education. At Tabor we focus on the community professions, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and courses that equip teachers, counsellors, youth workers, pastors and ministry workers, musicians and creative writers.
At Tabor, we are unashamedly Christian and strive to be personal and user-friendly in our engagement with students and stakeholders. All that we are and do is infused by a Christian ethos that recognises spiritual formation as essential to flourishing in life and work.
The College was founded in 1979 and has grown to a dynamic and vibrant education centre located in Adelaide and Online with approximately 900 students. The Millswood campus is only five minutes south of the city, in a beautiful setting with plenty of free parking and access via public transport.
This role also has the opportunity for hybrid working arrangements, although our preference is for a team member that can be part of the Tabor on-campus community.
About the Role:
The Academic Compliance Officer (ACO) is responsible for supporting the Chief
Academic Officer in ensuring that Tabor remains compliant with its regulatory requirements as a registered Australian higher education provider.
- The ACO is responsible for assisting with the maintenance of current course accreditation, institutional registration, benchmarking and other quality assurance processes and reporting.
- The role provides operational support and advice to the Chief Academic Officer, President and Senior Executive of Tabor on achieving and maintaining compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards and plays a key role in providing the College's various decision-making bodies including the Board of Governors and Academic Board with accurate and relevant information and reports they require to make informed decisions.
- Tabor College will be working towards Self-Accrediting Authority status and so experience with this will be highly regarded.
About You
- Passion for the education and training of students in a Christian organisation
- Ability to interpret complex regulatory and accreditation standards, policies and procedure and draw out the practical implications of these for institutional polices and processes
- Excellence in interpersonal and oral and written communication skills
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills and the ability to analyse, summarise and present data
- Highly developed time management and organisational skill, including the ability to plan, coordinate activities and balance priorities in a demanding environment
- Excellent report writing skills and minute taking
- Demonstrated ability to contribute to the production, development and review of institutional policies and procedures
- Experience providing a secretariat service to board and/or committees
- Experience with policy and compliance writing and/or checking
- Self-motivated, highly organised, detail orientated and able to function well under deadline pressures and meet targets
Essential Qualifications:
- A degree in business, leadership, communications or other relevant field in which critical analysis and well developed written and oral skills were required or substantial experience with report writing, standards, policies and regulations.
- Tertiary compliance experience is essential
- Understanding of (and preferably working knowledge with) TEQSA as a governing body for Higher Education in Australia.
Details About the Application Process
To Apply:
- Applicants can access the Job and Person specification here.
- Address the criteria to demonstrate your capacity to excel in this role.
- Applicants will only be shortlisted for interview if they send an application answering the Criteria and include their CV detailing relevant qualifications and experience.
- Apply through Seek here
- Applications Close: Monday 9 December 2024 at 5pm however if the right applicant is found earlier we may close applications and appoint earlier.
- Anticipated Start Date: Mid-January 2025
- For More Information: email HRadmin@adelaide.tabor.edu.au.
- Applications are encouraged from people who share Tabor's Christian ethos.
