Safety & Compliance Auditor

BrightPath Early Learning & Child Care•Windsor, CT

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Safety & Compliance Auditor conducts comprehensive safety, health, safeguarding, and compliance audits across assigned early childhood education centres. This field-based role provides objective oversight of practices and environments serving children from infancy through school age, helping ensure alignment with applicable regulatory requirements, organizational policies, and established safety standards. The auditor evaluates physical environments and operational practices, identifies risks and non-compliance, documents findings, and partners with centre and operational leadership to support timely corrective action. The role also maintains working knowledge of applicable childcare licensing requirements, health and safety regulations, organizational policies, safeguarding and child protection policies, mandatory reporting requirements, and regulatory expectations in assigned jurisdictions. The auditor monitors regulatory developments, supports compliance data collection and trend analysis, and escalates significant concerns or unresolved corrective actions according to established protocols.

Responsibilities

Conduct scheduled and as-needed comprehensive safety, health, safeguarding, and compliance audits across assigned early childhood education centres.
Evaluate classroom and facility conditions, staff practices, supervision, child accountability, safe sleep, feeding, medication management, emergency preparedness, playground and equipment safety, sanitation, food safety, transportation practices, physical security, and other potential risk areas.
Observe teacher interactions, daily practices, and routines to assess implementation of safety and compliance expectations.
Identify and classify audit findings according to established risk levels, including conditions requiring immediate correction or escalation.
Document findings clearly and objectively, with supporting observations, photographs, records, or other evidence as appropriate.
Review corrective actions and supporting documentation to verify concerns have been addressed.
Conduct follow-up visits or validation activities when necessary to confirm sustained correction.
Maintain consistent application of audit standards through calibration, training, and collaboration with the Director of Safety, Compliance and Safeguarding and fellow auditors.
Complete assigned audits and required documentation accurately within established timelines.
Maintain working knowledge of childcare licensing requirements, health and safety regulations, and organizational policies in assigned jurisdictions.
Monitor regulatory developments and communicate potential changes or risks to the Director of Safety & Compliance.
Support collection and maintenance of compliance and audit data for reporting and trend analysis, providing recommendations for training and development.
Partner with Operations to clarify findings and expectations while maintaining appropriate independence in the audit process.
Escalate significant concerns or unresolved corrective actions according to established protocols.
Maintain knowledge of safeguarding and child protection policies, mandatory reporting requirements, and applicable regulatory expectations.
Remain alert to conditions, behaviors, practices, or environmental factors that may present safeguarding concerns or increased risk to children.
Maintain confidentiality and professional discretion when handling sensitive safeguarding information.
Support a culture that keeps child safety and well-being central to decision-making.