Careers at TAFE NSW
Quality & Self-Assurance Specialist
A career of life-changing impact starts here! Join TAFENSW as a Quality & Self-Assurance Specialist. Permanent & Temporary Opportunities.
TAFE NSW Life-Changing Careers
Quality & Self-Assurance Specialist
Location Negotiable (subject to TAFENSW campus availability)
Permanent & Temporary Full-Time Opportunities
$158,345 - $162,265 salary package - includes base salary ($139,508 - $142,962), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
At TAFE NSW, we are dedicated to life-changing impact.
That’s why we offer world-class training and education that delivers the skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow.
Life-changing impact starts with an incredible team that sees their career as an opportunity to shape someone’s world. Whether that’s inspiring students, supporting each other, or helping our communities and industries flourish.
We live by TAFE NSW values: Customer Focus, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence. They define who we are, how we work and inspire our performance.
We invest in our people
At TAFE NSW, you will discover a diverse, dynamic, and collaborative environment, where you can innovate, create value, and do meaningful work.
We provide you with tools, ongoing training and professional development, health and wellbeing programs, and a variety of flexible working options.
About the Role
As a Quality and Self-Assurance Specialist at TAFE NSW, you’ll be instrumental in ensuring our educational programs maintain the highest standards of quality and compliance. Collaborating with Faculty and internal stakeholders, you’ll help implement and monitor frameworks that uphold both internal benchmarks and external regulatory requirements. To thrive in this role, candidates must meet all essential requirements, including holding relevant qualifications or experience, and demonstrated expertise in contemporary learning practices and vocational education standards. Your contribution will directly support outstanding student outcomes and reinforce TAFE NSW’s reputation for excellence.
About You
You’re a detail-oriented professional with a passion for educational quality and compliance. With relevant qualifications or equivalent experience, you bring a solid understanding of vocational education standards and contemporary learning practices. Your ability to collaborate across teams enables you to support the implementation and oversight of quality frameworks that meet both internal expectations and external regulatory requirements. In this role, your expertise will help drive exceptional student outcomes and strengthen TAFE NSW’s standing as a leader in education.
To succeed in this role, you will have:
- Appropriate Degree or Diploma at AQF level 5-8 or equivalent, or equivalent skills, knowledge and experience.
- Demonstrated knowledge of contemporary learning and assessment techniques.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the standards and regulatory environment governing vocational education and training.
- Demonstrated experience supporting educational quality and compliance-focused initiatives to drive organisation-wide improvements and outcomes.
To find out more about the role, click to view the 
Role Description.
Our commitment to Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
We are committed to creating a culturally safe and accessible workplace where dignity, trust, respect, and the promotion of diversity and inclusion are valued, so you can safely bring your whole self to work and connect with your community through our many diverse employee networks.
If you require an adjustment in the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Advisor listed below.
A career of life-changing impact awaits you. Apply now!
Applications close 11.55pm AEDT Wednesday 25 February 2026
To apply for this role, click on ‘apply now’ and provide:
- Your current resume (PDF)
- Copies of your qualifications (uploaded as one PDF file). Certified copies preferred; these will be required if successful for the role.
- Response to one (1) targeted question when prompted in the application form (max 300 words)
Targeted Question: Describe a time when you conducted systematic quality monitoring to identify compliance gaps. Outline the compliance gaps identified, actions taken to address issues and the measurable outcomes or continuous improvements that resulted from your work.
General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: contact Paula Zacharakis Petsis, Talent Acquisition Advisor, paula.zacharakis@tafensw.edu.au, 02 7921 6383.
Role-specific enquiries: contact Tash Pollard, Lead Quality Assurance Officer, Tash.Pollard1@tafensw.edu.au
For helpful insights into preparing your application, TAFE NSW’s recruitment process, and getting interview ready, read through our Application Process and the interactive Capability Application Tool.
This is a child-related position. A Working with Children Check is a prerequisite for anyone in child-related work. It involves a national criminal history check and review of findings of workplace misconduct.
To be eligible for positions at TAFE NSW, you need to be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand passport.
A talent pool, valid for 18 months, may be created for this position, and future positions that subsequently becomes vacant.
Location is negotiable across our TAFE NSW campuses. Please note your preferred campus location is not guaranteed and is subject to campus availability at the time of offer.
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