Description:
The Principal Investigator leads a team of Senior Investigators within the Reportable Conduct Unit who investigate allegations of reportable conduct involving foster and kinship carers and adult household members under the Child Safe Organisations Act 2024. This role provides strategic leadership, guidance, and quality assurance to ensure investigations are culturally responsive, child-centred, and completed within legislated timeframes. This role undertakes complex investigations, offers expert advice to senior management, and fosters strong relationships with key stakeholders, including operational areas/regions, foster and kinship carers and service providers.As a Principal Investigator You Will
- Lead and manage a team of staff to deliver high quality reportable conduct investigations of foster and kinship carers and adult household members in a culturally responsive and child centred way consistent with legislation, departmental policies and statutory responsibilities and in accordance with best practice Human Resources principles.
- Lead, coach and support Senior Investigators including providing guidance on strategic investigation planning, upholding principles of procedural fairness and ensure the quality of written work through robust quality assurance processes. Allocate and prioritise work of the Senior Investigators to meet legislated timeframes, while ensuring the business unit achieves its outcomes and performance indicators.
- Lead, coordinate and/or conduct complex reportable conduct investigations including the ability to work collaboratively with child safety service centre staff and other stakeholders to plan, assess and mitigate risks, gather and critically analyse evidence and conduct interviews as required. Deliver clear findings and recommendations in a final written report.
- Provide authoritative advice and make timely decisions to support Child Safety Service Centre staff and senior management with complex matters relating to the Reportable Conduct Scheme and monitor matters managed by Child Safety Service Centres to support timely and collaborative resolution in accordance with departmental policies.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders, including child safety service centres and regional staff, other government departments, other reporting entities, non-government service providers, and the regulatory body to support the management of reportable conduct investigations.
- Contribute to policy and procedure refinement to enable continuous improvement in investigating allegations of reportable conduct.
- Support the Manager to respond to Ministerial and Parliamentary briefings, requests from the Queensland Ombudsman, Human Rights Commission, QFCC and other regulatory bodies.
- Actively participate as a member of the Reportable Conduct Unit management team contributing to the effective functioning and oversight of the department's participation in the Reportable Conduct Scheme.
- Oversee and manage the team's human resources, including the provision of effective supervision and development of staff to deliver on team functions.
- Manage other projects and other related business unit work tasks, including representing the Reportable Conduct Unit in various committees, forums or working groups.
Occupational group Administration
6 Feb 2026;
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