Disaster Management Climate Specialist

3 months ago

Brisbane, Australia Suncorp Group Full time

**Disaster Management Climate Specialist**
- **Brisbane Based**:

- **Permanent Opportunity**

**About the role**:
We are seeking a talented and motivated Meteorologistist to join our Insurance Claims Disaster Management Team in Brisbane.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Utilise expertise in hydrology to analyse weather and forecast data, identifying potential risks to insured properties and informing disaster management decisions
- Collaborate with the natural peril team to align strategies and create opportunities for enhanced disaster response and mitigation
- Support the integration of climate data into technology systems and tools, ensuring high quality and accuracy for informed decision-making
- Conduct flood analytics to assess and predict potential impacts on insured properties and develop strategies for risk mitigation
- Communicate findings and recommendations to internal stakeholders, including senior management and technology teams.

**Key Stakeholder Relationships**:

- Disaster Management Leadership Team
- Disaster Management Team
- Home, Motor & Disaster Management Claims Performance Teams
- Portfolio Prevention & Protection (Home & Motor), including Home Tribe
- Best In Class Program Tribe
- Corporate & Regulatory Affairs
- Brand & Customer Experience
- Digital Customers
- Group Customer Advocate Office
- Data science & AI
- Risk
- Procurement
- Technology & Transformation
- External vendors and technology partners
- Government agencies and Local government areas (LGA)

**About You**:

- Degree in Hydrology, Geography, Environmental Science, or a related field
- Proven experience in hydrology, weather interpretation, and flood analytics
- Strong knowledge of climate data integration and quality assurance
- Experience working in disaster management or insurance claims is preferred
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and build relationships across different departments
- 3+ years project experience in the Financial Services industry
- Experience working on large corporate projects
- Experienced in various project management disciplines (PMBOK, Agile etc.)
- Experience building successful business relationships within a sponsorship model
- Experience delivering outcomes in an environment requiring autonomous prioritisation of time and resources across multiple significant initiatives and co-ordination of deliverables across peers and working groups.

**Key Capabilities**:
**Critical and Systems Thinking**
- Manages multiple objectives, initiatives and groups, effectively prioritising time and resources
- Synthesises pertinent information to plan a course of action and optimises time, tools and resources to achieve desired results
- Develops solutions and actions by interpreting issues, comparing data and determining causal relationships
- Seeks out information and breaks down problems and situations into components
- Triangulate Data for Comprehensive Analysis: the ability to decipher and Integrate and analyse data from weather forecasts, dam water levels, soil capacity, and infrastructure impacts to predict and manage potential natural hazard events effectively.

**Leadership**
- Proven ability to adopt a leadership role amongst a peer group to drive team and divisional objectives
- Ability to coach others to build technical knowledge and expertise
- Helps peers integrate strategic goals and tactical priorities

**Communication and Negotiation**
- Coherently and confidently conveys and explains information at all organisation levels
- Rapidly identifies stakeholders, analyses their needs and issues, and employs effective strategies to respond
- Proven ability to employ a constructive and collaborative negotiation style to achieve win-win outcomes in challenging circumstances
- Promotes open, effective communication among project stakeholders; actively monitors and responds to suboptimal communication

**Project Management**
- Implements, monitors, and controls projects, ensuring efficient utilisation of technical and business resources to achieve project objectives
- Monitors complex or unforeseen dependencies and escalates accordingly
- Creates plans with clear objectives, actions, accountabilities, resource requirements and timeline
- Manages senior stakeholders; anticipates and responds to people/business impacts from project deliverables
- Sound understanding of risk management practices with ability to comprehensively and proactively report progress and discuss risk in a targeted manner to a wide range of stakeholders.

**_ We’re proud to be a part of the Suncorp Group family alongside some of Australia’s most trusted and diverse names in insurance. Together, we share a drive to make the complex simple and bring our customers peace of mind when it matters most - while helping to evolve and innovate the ways we can serve our community every day. _**

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