Corporate Emergency

**Corporate Emergency & HSW Officer**:
**Job no**: 499173
**Work type**: Temporary Full Time
**Classification**: Band 5 ($76,355- $86,617 pa)
**Categories**: Administration & Support

**About the role**
In this role, you will monitor and report on the City of Greater Geelong’s Corporate Emergency Management Plan, ensuring all documentation is current and compliant. Additionally, engage with Emergency Control Organisation representatives across the City’s locations, offering guidance and assistance in reviewing their emergency management plans and structures to ensure adherence to relevant standards, as well as provide support to the wider Health, Safety, and Wellbeing (HSW) Team as directed.

**Work type: Temporary full time (12 months)**
**Classification**: Band 5 $76,355 - $86,617 pa plus super

Key responsibilities include:

- Provide general administrative and business support to HSW and the wider team as directed.
- Provide assistance and guidance for nominated training programs related to corporate emergency preparedness and management, including completion of these programs.
- Provide guidance and assistance in the completion of evacuation drill exercises in all City occupied buildings, ensuring that these are completed within specified time frames, including post-drill assessments to recognise and close any gaps that were identified.
- Work closely with relevant stakeholders to action identified emergency compliance gaps at all City sites.
- Maintain all operational aspects of the internal compliance monitoring schedule for all of the City’s occupied locations including relevant inspections and checklists.
- Provide assistance and guidance in the review, update and publishing of Evacuation Diagrams at all relevant City locations as per Australian Standards.

**About you**
To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrated administrative experience in an office environment, with experience in word processing, spreadsheet and data base software packages, accounts payable and receivable, and data entry. Some exposure to emergency management and/or safety experience desirable.

Essential Experience:

- Strong and proven report writing capabilities, excellent verbal communication and influencing skills.
- Ability to coordinate training programs within a multi facet organisation
- Strong customer service focus.
- Ability to achieve objectives within set timeframes whilst adhering to relevant standards.
- High level relationship building, communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to deal with a diverse range of stakeholders with a broad range of expectations and client needs and the ability to convey and effectively impart information and negotiate and influence outcomes.
- Current Working with Children Card (employee).

**Child Safety Responsibilities**
We are committed to being a child-safe organisation and have zero-tolerance for child abuse. We have specific policies, procedures, and mandatory training in place to support employees, volunteers, and contractors to achieve and adhere to these commitments. Please read our Child Safe Standards Management Policy.

**Diversity and Inclusion**

**Create our future together at the City of Greater Geelong**
Join the City of Greater Geelong, a community-focused workplace on Wadawurrung Country. We deliver over 130 services to our growing population, striving to make our city a great place to live, work, and study. Our central location for Central Geelong-based employees is the Civic Precinct, Wurriki Nyal, a modern, sustainable, and inclusive workplace, along with our outreach locations.

We support accessibility and encourage discussions about any adjustments or support you may need during the recruitment process.

**Applications and Enquiries**
- We collect demographic data to help us learn who our advertisements are reaching and how we can reach an even more diverse audience. We are committed to building a more diverse team. Your responses to our demographic questions are strictly confidential and will not be individually shared._

**Advertised**: 20 Sep 2024 12:00 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time
**Applications close**: 03 Oct 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time