Are you a detail-driven professional with a passion for ensuring compliance, integrity, and operational excellence? Do you thrive in a role where you can develop, oversee, and enhance control systems to maintain legal, ethical, and policy-driven standards? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

About the Role:

As a Compliance Lead at Sheaf Training, you will play a crucial role in procedures and policies, ensuring regulatory compliance, and minimising risks across our site. You will work to develop, implement, and continuously improve control systems, ensuring alignment with legal guidelines, internal policies, and ethical standards.

What You’ll Be Doing:

✅ Developing and overseeing control systems to prevent or address legal and policy violations.
✅ Ensuring compliance with GDPR, Data Protection Act, and Information Security legislation.
✅ Monitoring and improving compliance frameworks, integrating sustainability initiatives into operations.
✅ Leading mandatory training administration and ensuring all employees meet compliance obligations, including DBS checks.
✅ Conducting process reviews, identifying risks, and revising policies to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
✅ Keeping up to date with regulatory developments and ensuring best practices in compliance control.
✅ Preparing detailed reports for senior management and external regulatory bodies, ensuring transparency and accountability.
✅ Training staff on new or updated policies, fostering a strong culture of compliance and integrity.

What We’re Looking For:

🔹 A keen eye for detail and a strong understanding of compliance, risk management, and operational controls.
🔹 Experience in developing, monitoring, and improving regulatory frameworks within an organisation.
🔹 Strong knowledge of data protection, ethical compliance, and sustainability standards.
🔹 Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to identify risks and implement solutions.
🔹 Confident communicator, capable of training, advising, and working collaboratively across departments.
🔹 A proactive and process-driven mindset, committed to continuous improvement.

Why Join Us?

✨ Make a real impact by ensuring ethical, legal, and procedural integrity.
✨ Work in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment where compliance is valued.
✨ Ongoing training and development to enhance your skills and career growth.
✨ Play a key role in shaping policies that influence operations at every level.
📅 Apply now and be part of a team that upholds excellence, accountability, and integrity!

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyone and where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.