Head of Risk, Compliance and Information Security

Come shape the future of education with us.

At Compass, we're on a mission to transform the school day for everyone - from staff and students to families and administrators. We build smart, seamless technology that empowers schools to focus on what really matters: learning, growing and thriving.

That mission has fuelled our growth into a global scale-up, now supporting 5,000+ schools across three countries, backed by a team of 300+ people. Our all-in-one school management platform is redefining how education communities connect, communicate and operate.

We’re now looking for a Head of Risk, Compliance and Information Security to lead how Compass manages risk, compliance and information security as our business continues to evolve.

You’ll take ownership of our certification and audit programmes, including ISO 27001 and PCI DSS, our approach to multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance, information governance, and our security and information policy framework. You’ll be our designated point of accountability for reporting information security and compliance posture to the ELT and Board.

Working closely with our technical leaders, you’ll bring together the regulatory, risk and security picture across the business, translating complexity into clear priorities, practical frameworks and confident decision-making.

This is a genuine opportunity to build and shape how Compass approaches risk, compliance and information security, creating a framework that supports the business while keeping pace with its evolving technology, regulatory and commercial environment.

• Certifications and standards: maintain the ISMS, and manage certification audits and corrective actions for ISO 27001 and equivalent standards.
• Payment security compliance: scope and maintain PCI DSS compliance for any payment processing.
• Privacy and data protection: obligations under the Australian Privacy Principles and equivalent UK and Irish regimes, privacy impact assessments, privacy by design sign off, and handling of privacy complaints.
• Information governance: data classification, retention and disposal, and records management.
• Policy framework: own the overarching security and information policy suite, drawing on technical input from Director AI & Security and Head of Technology.
• Regulatory and contractual reporting: regulatory breach notification, compliance clauses in customer and government contracts, and responses to customer and government due diligence questionnaires.
• Information security risk and governance reporting: maintain the compliance risk register, and aggregate information security posture and risk into a quarterly report to the ELT and Board.
• Third party contractual compliance: ensure vendor contracts carry appropriate data protection and security clauses, paired with technical review from the Head of Technology.

You are an experienced compliance, risk or information security leader who enjoys operating at the intersection of risk, regulation, technology and commercial decision-making. You can build robust frameworks without creating unnecessary complexity, and are comfortable taking ownership of a broad mandate in a fast-moving environment.

You will bring:

• 6+ years in compliance, risk or information security leadership, ideally in a SaaS, fintech or regulated technology environment, with experience owning PCI DSS compliance end to end.
• Hands on ISO 27001 experience, having led a certification or maintained an ISMS end to end, not just assessed against the framework.
• Multi jurisdictional compliance experience, including practical application of the AU Privacy Act and GDPR.
• Practical knowledge of a recognised security framework and how to translate it into requirements a technical team…