Assistant Directors – Executive Level 1, Compliance Branch
Manage Fraud Investigations
Challenging focus on continuous improvement
Commitment to work/life balance
Information about the Section/Branch
The Compliance Branch comprises four Sections:
- External Investigations
- Internal Investigations and Fraud Control
- Compliance Operations and Network Support
- Intelligence, Analysis and Coordination
The Compliance Branch fulfils the following roles and responsibilities:
- Develop and Implement the FaHCSIA Compliance Framework to enhance a compliance culture within the department;
- Support program areas and the FaHCSIA Network (State and Territory Offices – STOs and Indigenous Coordination Centres – ICCs) on issues relating to compliance, fraud, risks to funding, due diligence, and matters of internal serious misconduct, including:
o Provision of advice;
o Conducting reviews of serious non-compliance by funded entities;
o Conducting investigations into allegations of fraud or impropriety surrounding FaHCSIA program funding;
o Conducting investigations into allegations of fraud or serious misconduct by FaHCSIA staff;
o Gathering, collating, analysing and disseminating intelligence and information;
o Preparing ????? ????? papers to relevant committees and program areas on trends and lessons learned &
o Providing Fraud Awareness training to FaHCSIA staff.
- Develop and implement the FaHCSIA Fraud Control Plan; and
- Manage relationships with external stakeholders, including the Australian Crime Commission; law enforcement and prosecuting authorities.
Description of the role
All roles are at the Assistant Director (EL1) level and successful applicants may take up roles in one of the following three distinct areas:
Investigations
Assistant Director, Investigations - responsible for leading a small team in investigating allegations of fraud relating to departmental administered programs. Duties involve the management of complex and sensitive investigations, including the preparation of briefs of evidence for, and the management of prosecutions, undertaken by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.
Fraud Control
Assistant Director, Fraud Control - responsible for the ongoing development and implementation of the FaHCSIA Fraud Control Planning process (conducted through robust fraud risk assessments). Duties also include the management and delivery of the fraud awareness training program across the department.
Compliance
Assistant Director, Compliance - works in collaboration with program areas and the FaHCSIA Network (State and Territory Offices - STOs, and Indigenous Coordination Centres - ICCs) to implement strategies supporting the FaHCSIA Compliance Framework, including:
- Conducting compliance related interventions where suspected serious breaches of funding agreements are identified
- Developing a compliance focus on program delivery business and systems enhancements.
- Conducting Lessons Learned workshops aimed as examining case studies as an exercise in learning and in developing compliance knowledge at the Network level.
Contributing to the development of robust quality assurance processes across the range of program business.
