Regional Business Manager

About us

As a department our purpose is to help the community to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from the impact of fire and emergency events.

Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) is the primary provider of fire, rescue and emergency management programs and services throughout Queensland. The department encompasses the Fire and Rescue Service, disaster management services, the Rural Fire Service and the State Emergency Service, and also supports other volunteer groups providing emergency response to Queenslanders.

QFES is one department with many services, many capabilities and many partners.

Purpose of the role

Reporting to the Regional Director, you will be responsible for providing high-level timely and confidential advice and support to the Regional Director and SES senior leadership team. You will ensure the responsibilities and statutory obligations are delivered and achieved, in relation to governance and financial management processes and standards. You will manage the optimal operation of the Regional Director's office and associated governance, financial and administrative functions, leading and managing the support team and providing support to the staff of the region.

Key requirements

Highly desirable requirements
- Knowledge of and experience with Government governance and reporting systems and processes.

Special requirements
- The incumbent will be appointed as a staff member of the SES and the hours of duty applicable to this role are pursuant to the Queensland Public Service Officers and Other Employees Award - State 2015: specifically, the spread of ordinary hours for SES staff are 0600 to 2200, Monday to Sunday.
- It is expected the incumbent will participate in an out-of-hours on-call roster during emergency operations. This may require work outside of normal hours (e.g. night shift), including weekends, working extended hours and may include travel to rural and remote communities, intrastate or interstate travel as necessary and/or deployment activities to other parts of the state.

Your key accountabilities

Your part in the ongoing success of our department, in supporting frontline services will see you responsible for a variety of work, including, but not limited to:

- Manage the work program and administration of the Region, including governance and financial management, providing guidance and support to ensure the effective dissemination of information and achievement of work priorities.
- Provide high level support and strategic advice to the Regional Director regarding the development and ongoing management, and performance against agreed objectives, of the Region's annual budget in accordance with operational plans and departmental requirements.
- Contribute to the development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of the Regional Plans, and provide regular reports on the achievement of objectives within the Region.
- Prepare, contribute to and quality check correspondence, briefs, reports, and submissions ensuring actions and priorities are addressed and accurate and appropriate replies formulated.
- Represent and promote the interests of the Region at internal and external meetings and forums and negotiate agreed outcomes as required.
- Build and sustain partnerships and networks with internal and external stakeholders, and actively identify opportunities to engage these stakeholders on initiatives, to effectively liaise and negotiate agreed outcomes on difficult and complex agreements, projects and program issues.
- Lead and manage significant projects on a diverse range of issues that impact the Region's business and participate in divisional and departmental initiatives to support ongoing improvement strategies.
- Lead and manage an administration team that fosters team work and includes the ongoing development of staff through performance, planning and review.

Capabilities

To determine your suitability for the role, you will be assessed on the following Leadership Competencies for Queensland behavioural profiles that link to the "key accountabilities" for this role:
Leadership Competency Stream -Team Leader (leading others)

Vision
- Stimulates ideas and innovation
- Makes insighful decisions

Results
- Builds enduring relationships
- Drives accountability and outcomes

Accountability
- Fosters healthy and inclusive workplaces
- Demonstrates sound governance

Once you join us we will want you to exemplify the QFES shared values of:

- Respect
- Integrity
- Trust
- Courage
- LoyaltyThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.