About this role
Job Type Full time, permanent
Role Compliance and Investigations Officer
£30,660 per annum
We’re hiring a Compliance and Investigations Officer to help maintain the fairness and quality of our qualifications and assessments.
In this new role, you’ll lead on reviewing applications for reasonable adjustments, errors and incidents to ensure that decisions are fair, evidence-based, timely, clearly recorded and made in line with our policies and regulatory requirements.
You’ll play an important part in protecting learners and ensuring consistency in the investigations we undertake and making sure that our processes where learners need extra support are clear and consistently understood and implemented.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with experience in compliance, quality assurance or assessment who enjoys solving problems and improving processes.
Functions of the post
- To review, assess and make recommendations or decisions on applications for reasonable adjustments in line with Open Awards policies, regulatory requirements and equality duties.
- To ensure reasonable adjustment decisions maintain the validity, reliability and integrity of assessments while supporting fair access for learners.
- To investigate errors, allegations of maladministration, malpractice, assessment irregularities and other incidents affecting assessment delivery or learner outcomes.
- To produce clear investigation records, findings and recommendations, including corrective and preventative actions where required.
- To identify trends and risks to propose and implement effective improvements.
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The closing date for applications for the post is 12:00 on Friday 16**th**October 2026.
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About compliance & regulatory roles for ex-police
Compliance, AML and regulatory roles. Working to PACE, RIPA and CPIA is a stronger regulatory grounding than most civilian applicants can offer — firms increasingly recognise this.
See all compliance & regulatory jobs in Liverpool →Why this fits a police background — match score 85/100
- Investigative casework
- Working to legislation & regulation
What compliance & regulatory roles pay ex-police
Advertised UK ranges, editorial estimates reviewed July 2026
| Compliance analyst | £32,000–£42,000 |
| Compliance / AML officer | £40,000–£55,000 |
| Compliance manager | £55,000–£80,000 |
| Senior manager / head of compliance | £80,000–£120,000+ |