Emergency Management Lead

Location: Melbourne | Parkville

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $109,730 - $132,764

Occupation: Emergency Management

Reference: 5448

**About the Role**

Are you ready to make a real impact in emergency management? We have an exciting opportunity for a dedicated leader to join our team, playing a crucial role in regional leadership and management before, during, and after emergencies. In this position, you will work collaboratively with various agencies to develop and implement comprehensive Emergency Management Plans. Your expertise will be vital in shaping strategies for fire and flood management, as well as community recovery efforts, ensuring the safety and resilience of our communities. If you have a passion for strategic planning and a commitment to protecting people and places, we want to hear from you

**Position Description, **please click here**:
**Position Outcomes / Accountabilities**
- **Regions Deliver on Planning, Response and Recovery responsibilities **-Ensures the region is thoroughly prepared, responsive and capable of safely and effectively meeting departmental responsibilities under the State Emergency Management Plan.
- **Effective representation of the department **- Actively represents the department in the Regional Emergency Management Team (REMT) during emergencies, and at various internal and external emergency management working groups and committees.
- **Volunteers are appropriately skilled **- Successfully coordinates and delivers learning and development of the department’s regional personnel volunteering in emergency management roles, ensuring they are appropriately skilled.
- **Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Management **Collaborates effectively with the department’s regional incident management team to ensure readiness.
- **Effective people leadership **- Demonstrates strong leadership and people management skills, fostering a highly engaged and cohesive team.
- Promote and support safe, inclusive and flexible team operations.

**_ Key Selection Criteria_**

We are seeking a resilient leader who excels under pressure, providing clear direction and support to teams in challenging situations. You will be adept at quickly adapting systems and processes to respond to changing priorities and circumstances. With a strong focus on outcomes, you will stay attuned to community needs and develop strategies that remove barriers and drive positive results. If you have a passion for making a difference and leading with flexibility, we encourage you to apply
- Ability to assess situations and identifies the best systems tools for analysing, understanding the system and addressing problems.
- Capable of considering a broad range of topics (beyond immediate area of work).
- Able to develop long-term and multi-phased plans to influence others.
- Ability to establish resource requirements, utilisation guidelines, and integrate resource optimisation practices into daily operations.
- Capable of identifying issues in common for one or more clients or stakeholders and uses them to build mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Ability to actively seek to improve others’ skills and talents by providing knowledge, constructive feedback, coaching and learning opportunities.

**Qualifications and Experience**

**Desirable**
- **Understanding of the Victorian Preparedness Framework (VPF)**:

- **Understanding of the State Emergency Management Plan (SEMP)**:

- **Understanding and experience implementing the AIIMS principles**

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Services
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements
- Opportunity to work across multiple urban and suburban hubs
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture

**Culture Value**

We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

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Applications close **11.59pm on**_ Tuesday, 8th of October 2024_**.

For further information about the role please contact **_Sarah Collins Man