• New strategic leadership role in education quality and governance
• Flexible hybrid working from our St Kilda Road offices
• Join an internationally recognised, purpose-driven medical college

Be part of something bigger
At the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) incorporating the Faculty of Pain Medicine, we are proud to be a world leading specialist medical college, dedicated to training, examining, and supporting over 7000 doctors in Australia and New Zealand.

About the opportunity:
As Governance and Compliance Manager, you will join the Development and Governance leadership team in an exciting growth phase and take a pivotal role in embedding best practice across education governance, accreditation, compliance, and quality assurance.

With responsibility for a small, high-performing team, this role offers the opportunity (subject to timing) to contribute to the recruitment and onboarding of new team members. You’ll lead the development of systems and frameworks that underpin ANZCA’s education and CPD programs, ensuring alignment with national and international regulatory standards. You’ll also provide strategic advice, data insights, and oversight of compliance and accreditation activities, playing a key role in embedding a culture of continuous improvement.

This a permanent, full-time role reporting to the Head of Education Development and Governance and offers the opportunity to influence at both an operational and strategic level.

The Development and Governance unit sits within ANZCA’s Education and Research department. Together, the team leads the strategic design and continuous improvement of training and professional development programs, including curricula and assessment frameworks, digital learning, policy and governance systems, and reporting and evaluation.

This team also supports ANZCA’s education governance committees and communities of practice—ensuring our programs are responsive, evidence-based, and aligned with global best practice and local health equity priorities.

Keys to your success:

You are a confident governance or compliance professional with a passion for quality and education. You are ready to step into a role where you can influence strategically, lead a team, and drive real-world impact.

You will ideally bring:

• Strong experience in governance, compliance, accreditation or quality systems, ideally within an education, healthcare, or membership-based environment
• Familiarity with medical education standards and regulatory bodies such as AMC and or MCNZ
• Leadership experience, with the ability to mentor and empower a team
• Strength in policy, systems thinking, risk management, and continuous improvement
• Comfort with data and insights—using evidence to shape strategy and reporting
• Commitment to principles of cultural safety, health equity, and inclusion

What we can offer you:
We offer employment benefits and a working environment that contribute to our people's health, safety and wellbeing, personal and professional development and support an inclusive, equitable, and respectful college culture.

• Join a purpose driven organisation with a team of individuals highly passionate about improving educational opportunities for health professionals.
• A competitive remuneration package including full FBT exempt salary packaging. 
• New leadership role to own and make your mark. 
• Opportunity to grow in the position with genuine career pathways.
• Excellent staff benefits – additional leave over the Christmas period, additional personal leave, health and wellbeing offerings, market leading parental leave, staff recognition program, member advantage program with access to discounted lifestyle benefits and leisure activities.
• Flexible, hybrid working options.
• Free confidential counselling service to support our staff and their close family through life’s challenges via our Employee Assistance Program.

ANZCA is an equal opportunity employer and our commitment to creating and supporting an inclusive culture is reflected in our diverse mix of talented people passionate about delivering their best. We embrace and value the diverse society we live within and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or age. We strongly encourage Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori applicants to apply for any of our current opportunities. 

Next steps:

Apply now and take the next step towards a rewarding and long-term career within a progressive environment. Our application process will require you to submit your current resume and a cover letter. We will progress suitable candidates through the hiring process as soon as we can.

If selected, we will contact you to discuss your application on the phone, you will be invited to meet with us at the college and from there complete a few background checks. We will help you through this process. If we identify potential candidates prior to the advertised closing date, we may close the advertisement sooner than the closing date. Therefore, we encourage you to apply promptly if you are interested. 

We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to provide a positive, barrier-free recruitment process and supportive workplace, so please let us know what you need.

For more information about ANZCA or for a copy of the position description, please email Nuzee at recruitment@anzca.edu.au.