About the Branch

The Compliance Branch provides specialist services to support efficient and effective compliance actions across all CER schemes. These services can include actions and activities that will help the CER to better understand who the participants are and to explain their behaviours so that we can provide targeted and timely guidance and outreach activities to enable them to meet their obligations. The branch also helps to detect non-compliance and to facilitate and enforce compliance within each scheme.

About the Section

The Compliance Branch has four sections:

The Compliance and Enforcement Section undertakes proactive and reactive compliance activities including investigations and developing and delivering compliance and engagement programs to prevent, detect and address serious non-compliance across schemes administered by the CER.
The Intelligence and Assessment Section provides a centralised intelligence function. The section produces intelligence reports to support scheme areas. It provides a preliminary assessment triage function for referrals of non-compliance. The section also maintains an ongoing participant monitoring function and coordination of engagement and collaboration with other regulatory agencies.
The Participant Assessment Section ensures that those who are applying to participate in the schemes administered by the CER meet fit and proper person checks which establish competency and capability benchmarks.
The Compliance Strategy and Assurance Section drives engagement on strategic compliance policy initiatives, reporting on compliance effectiveness and providing a centralised scheme audit and assurance function.

The key duties of the position include:

The agency is undergoing a period of significant change and growth, with new responsibilities and expanded scope of schemes, such as the Cheaper Home Batteries initiative. As a result, there are current and expected vacancies across all four sections in the branch.

We are seeking professionals who thrive in collaborative environments, contribute positively to team culture and are eager to grow and share knowledge. If you’re someone who values integrity, teamwork and making a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you.

When applying you will be asked to specify which role/s you wish to be considered for. We are recruiting the following roles:

APS Level 5 Investigators and APS Level 6 Senior Investigators
APS Level 5 Compliance Officers and APS Level 6 Senior Compliance Officers
APS Level 5 Intelligence Officers and APS Level 6 Senior Intelligence Officers
APS Level 5 Regulatory Officers and APS Level 6 Senior Regulatory Officers

For further details about these positions, please visit the Clean Energy Regulator’s Careers page and review the candidate information pack.

Eligibility

The Public Service Act 1999 requires all people joining the Australian Public Service to be Australian citizens. You will be asked to declare your citizenship status as part of the application process.

We will conduct pre-employment checks before we offer you employment. For us to do this, you will be required to supply certified copies of identity documents.

It is a condition of employment with the Clean Energy Regulator that you can obtain and maintain a security clearance at a baseline level. If you are offered a role and do not already hold a security clearance at or above this level, you will need to undertake the security clearance process before you can commence employment. Any employment offer will be contingent upon obtaining this clearance.

Notes

Salary range reflects the 3.4% increase effective 12 March 2026.

Getting to know the Clean Energy Regulator

The Clean Energy Regulator is the Government body responsible for administering legislation to reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of clean energy. The Clean Energy Regulator has administrative responsibilities for the:

National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Scheme, under the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007
Emissions Reduction Fund, under the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011,
Renewable Energy Target, under the Renewable Energy (Electricity) Act 2000, and
Australian National Registry of Emissions Units, under the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Act 2011,
Nature Repair Market, under the Nature Repair Act 2023,
Guarantee of Origin, under the Future

Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024. Our purpose is to accelerate carbon abatement for Australia. We work with our stakeholders and clients including Australian Government departments and agencies, industry bodies, liable entities and the community to provide regulatory services of the highest standard.

We offer challenging and rewarding work in administering legislation that will reduce carbon emissions and increase the use of clean energy. Our agency is committed to workplace diversity and aims to create an environment that values and utilises the contribution of people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, people with a disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and mature age workers

Regulatory Officers, Compliance Officers, Intelligence Officers and Investigators - Compliance Branch

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