Safety & Compliance Auditor

Busy Bees North America

1. Position Information

Job Title: Safety & Compliance Auditor

Reports To: Director, Safety & Compliance

Location: Must reside in market of assigned centers

Employment Type: Full-time

Travel: 75%

2. About Us

At Busy Bees North America, we're on a Mission to give every child the best start in life. Across our growing network of more than 270 early learning and child care centers throughout the United States and Canada, our educators, leaders, and support teams are united by a shared purpose: creating exceptional experiences that inspire curiosity, build confidence, and foster a lifelong love of learning.

We believe that every child deserves access to high-quality early years education, and every family deserves a trusted partner in their child's development. Guided by our Vision to be the leader in high-quality, affordable early years education and our Promise to help every child thrive at school and beyond, we are committed to making a meaningful impact in the lives of children, families, and communities every day.

How we achieve this is through The Busy Bees Way, our shared framework for leadership, decision-making, and continuous improvement. At the heart of The Busy Bees Way is BB5: Protect, Educate, Lead, Enroll, and Control. These principles guide how we create safe environments, deliver exceptional learning experiences, support our people, serve our families, and drive operational excellence across our organization.

Our work is grounded in four core Values: Care, Quality, Service, and Value. These values shape the experiences we create for children and families and influence how we collaborate, innovate, and support one another as colleagues.

Just as important as what we do is how we work together. Our culture is rooted in the belief that We Thrive Together. We are one team built on trust, respect, collaboration, and support, where every person is valued, empowered, and set up for success. When our employees thrive, our children and families thrive too.

Recognized with the 2025 Culture at Work Award, the 2025 Silver Stevie® Award for Great Employers, and the 2024 Kudos Culture Leader Award, Busy Bees is proud to be a workplace where people can grow their careers, make a meaningful impact, and help shape the future of early childhood education.

3. Job Summary

The Safety & Compliance Auditor is responsible for conducting comprehensive safety, health, safeguarding, and compliance audits across assigned 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.

This role evaluates both physical environments and operational practices, identifies areas of risk and non-compliance, documents findings, and partners with centre and operational leadership to support timely corrective action.

4. Key Responsibilities

Safety Audit & Risk Assessment

• 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 areas of potential risk.

• Observe teacher interactions, daily practices and routines to assess actual implementation of safety and compliance expectations, rather than relying solely on documentation or self-reported practices.

• Identify and accurately classify audit findings based on established risk levels, including conditions requiring immediate correction or escalation.

• Document findings clearly, objectively, and thoroughly, including supporting observations, photographs, records, or other evidence as appropriate.

• Review corrective action and supporting documentation to verify identified concerns have been appropriately addressed.

• Conduct follow-up visits or validation activities when necessary to confirm sustained correction.

• Maintain consistency in application of audit standards through ongoing calibration, training, and collaboration with Director of Safety, Compliance and Safeguarding and fellow auditors.

• Complete assigned audits and required documentation accurately within established timelines.

5. Compliance and Regulatory Oversight

• Maintain working knowledge of applicable childcare licensing requirements, health and safety regulations, and organizational policies within assigned jurisdictions.

• Monitor regulatory developments and communicate potential changes or risks to the Director of Safety & Compliance.

• Support the collection and maintenance of accurate 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.

6. Safeguarding & Child Protection

• Maintain a strong working knowledge of organizational safeguarding and child protection policies, mandatory reporting requirements, and applicable regulatory expectations.

• Remain alert to conditions, behaviors, practices, or environmental factors that may present a safeguarding concern or increased risk to children.

• Maintain appropriate confidentiality and professional discretion when handling sensitive safeguarding information.

• Support a culture in which child safety and well-being remain the primary consideration in decision-making.