Coordinator Exercise Planning and Design, Clerk

**Coordinator Exercise Capability, Clerk Grade 7/8**
- Work in a leading emergency service agency, supporting SES members and NSW communities
- Utilise your exercise or project/event management skills and experience to deliver innovative and outcome-focused benefits to NSW SES members and agency partners
- Join a high-performing and motivated team that supports growth and development with flexible working arrangements
- Two full-time, ongoing opportunities:

- Flexible location: Sydney (Rhodes), Wollongong, Metford, or Goulburn
- Location: Sydney (Rhodes)
- Attractive salary package of up to $126,210 + 15% field allowance, leave loading and superannuation.

**About the opportunity**

As a Coordinator Exercise Capability, you will manage State-Wide Exercise planning and execution. Your primary task is to lead a team in developing and deploying the Services State-Wide Exercise Plan, which informs and supports the NSW SES' capability development.

In addition, you will be responsible for overseeing exercise funding, resource allocation, outcome analysis, and quality assurance to ensure that the team is delivering a high-quality product to Members.

**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 NSW community as the lead agency for floods, storms, and tsunamis as specified by the _State Emergency Service Act 1989_. 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.

Each NSW SES Unit is as unique and varied as the community it serves, reflecting the vast mix of risks faced and roles required in the diverse locations and communities across the state. In addition to flood, storm and tsunami, our Service provides specialist capabilities that include general land rescue, vertical rescue, road crash rescue, and alpine and remote area search and rescue. The NSW SES responded to over 64,000 requests for assistance from the community over the 2021-22 year.

The NSW SES has over 10,000 volunteer members, and a full-time equivalent workforce of over 370. There are 262 volunteer Units across the State and our volunteer Units are either local, community-based Units, State-wide or regional Units established to provide specialist capabilities. They are varied and unique in their capabilities, designed to address specific risks to communities of NSW.

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will have:

- Experience in project/event management, ideally in an Exercise Management context, and/or training program development and delivery
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with an ability to build and maintain strong relationships
- Willingness to support NSW SES operational activities in an Incident Management Team (IMT)
- Proven experience in developing and coaching a team
- Proven experience developing, monitoring, and managing a budget
- Experience in an Emergency Service and/or volunteer-based organisation is not essential but favourable
- Obtained or are willing to obtain Design Emergency Management Exercises (PUAEMR032) and Manage and Evaluate Emergency Management Exercises (PUAEMR036) competencies (or equivalent) within 12 months (provided by SES)

**What we can offer you**
- Employment with attractive leave entitlements including parental leave, recreation and flex leave and other leave entitlements
- Flexible work options working within operational requirements
- Mental Health & Wellbeing programs and services
- Operational and leadership training and development opportunities via LinkedIn Learning and other training avenues to build and maintain skills
- Comprehensive immunisation programs including the flu vaccine
- Opportunities to build invaluable relationships across emergency service agencies, emergency service 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**
- Describe a time when you were responsible for developing and managing a large-scale exercise, project, or event. What steps did you take to ensure a successful outcome? Explain your key considerations and planning process. What was the outcome?
- Describe a time when, during the planning phase of an exercise, project, or event, you were required to engage with many stakeholders, each with their priorities and points of view. Describe key challenges you faced and how you dealt with them to ensure a succe