Coordinator Planning, Clerk Grade 7/8

**Coordinator Planning, Clerk Grade 7/8**
- Work in a volunteer-based agency supporting communities of NSW
- Significant focus on developing and maintaining best practice emergency management strategies, policies, and systems to ensure effective hazard planning and risk reduction methods are identified and implemented to benefit communities of New South Wales
- Join a high performing and motivated team
- Fulltime ongoing role
- Location: Based in Wollongong, with flexible working arrangements available

**About the opportunity**

The NSW State Emergency Service (NSW SES) has an exciting opportunity for a planning professional looking to utilise and expand their skills and knowledge whilst working with a team of dedicated staff and volunteers.

You will utilise your skills to lead teams to deliver emergency management planning, risk management and research outputs, including supervisory, mentoring and team engagement responsibilities.

Working within the Planning Team, you will take a key role in effectively building capability to meet community expectations and influence key whole of government and private entities around emergency planning, with a key focus of reducing the impact on communities in relation to the current flood risk. You will also work with internal and external stakeholders to reduce future flood risk.

**About the NSW SES**

Our Mission: NSW SES saving lives and creating safer communities.
Our Vision: A trusted volunteer-based emergency service, working together to deliver excellence in community preparedness and emergency response.

The NSW SES serves the community as the lead agency for Floods, Storms and Tsunamis. We are recognised as the most versatile and widely used emergency service organisation in NSW. Our volunteers are highly skilled, experienced, and well
- trained in the wide variety of roles they perform. With over 10,000 volunteers we are committed to protecting and supporting the diverse communities of NSW. Learn more here

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will have:

- a passion for working with multiple stakeholders to develop and implement community focussed solutions;
- relevant tertiary education and/or demonstrated experience in a related field;
- sound knowledge and understanding of the consequences of natural hazards and their management;
- a valid Driver’s Licence and/or the ability to travel to SES Unit locations;
- thorough knowledge of AIIMS principles and processes, and/or willingness to obtain competence within 12 months.

**What we can offer you**
- Attractive leave entitlements: parental, recreation and flex leave and other leave
- Competitive salary package of up to $131,845.59 total package (salary range $106,025 - $117,363 + leave loading + super)
- Flexible work options working within operational requirements
- Mental Health & Wellbeing programs
- Access to our Corporate Partner Fitness Passport for a reduced rate when joining a participating gym
- Operational and leadership training via LinkedIn Learning and other resources
- Comprehensive immunisation programs including the flu vaccine
- Opportunities to build relationships across emergency service agencies, committees and other Government and community organisations.

**How to apply**
- A cover letter (maximum of one page) briefly responding to the **essential requirements** and your interest in the role;
- Responses to each of the **targeted questions **(maximum of one page per answer); and
- An up-to-date **resume** of no more than four pages detailing your skills and experience relevant to the role.

**Targeted Questions**

1) Detail your previous experience in working within a diverse, high pressure work environment, where work volume is high and accuracy is critical.

2) Provide an example of where you have influenced a project that looked at developing a workable solution to a problem that was conceptually, technically and socio-politically complex. What did you do, how was it communicated and what was the outcome?

**Want to know more?**

The role description is available here.

**Talent Pool**

A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary roles of the same role or role type that may become available for filling over the next 18 months. Further information here

**Applications close: Sunday, 29 September 2024 at 11:59pm