Predictive Services Intelligence Coordinator

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 role

The Predictive Services unit is responsible for decision support capabilities as an enabler to a multi-hazard intelligence function underpinned by networked regional and state capabilities across Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery (PPRR). A function of the unit is the generation of scientifically derived bushfire intelligence that is underpinned by local area knowledge. The team works closely with the scientific community, the Bureau of Meteorology, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), interstate emergency services and land management agencies to provide accurate and enabling intelligence for QFES.

The role of the Predictive Services Intelligence Coordinator (PSIC) is based in the regions and reports to the Manager, Predictive Services. You will be part of the team developing and delivering specialist predictive services training and provide the coordination of a regionally focused multi-hazard intelligence, including fire behavior capability. You will form part of a networked regional PSIC team that will support the regions emergency and disaster management arrangements.

Key requirements

Highly desirable requirements
- Have attained or willing to undertake nationally recognised training within the predictive services capability, e.g. Fire Behaviour Analyst (FBAN).
- Qualifications in relevant disciplines, including tertiary qualifications, knowledge and understanding of QDMA and incident management systems such as Australasian Inter-service Incident Management System.

Special requirements
- It is expected that the incumbent may 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 deployment intrastate or interstate.

Your key accountabilities

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

- Contribute to the QFES multi-hazard intelligence function to collaboratively determine requirements, collect data and information, process, analyse and disseminate relevant outputs and products across all phases of disaster management and operations.
- Deliver intelligence outputs and products relevant to developing and maintaining operational situational awareness and in meeting decision support requirements in a multi-tiered governance environment.
- Provide support to the development and implement where relevant, communication and education strategies to effectively liaise between QFES regions, other emergency services, groups and the community.
- Develop and deliver the training pathways and programs that support and maintain the multi-hazard specialist capability, including FBAN training.
- Develop and implement effective networks, governance, policy and doctrine to enhance intelligence-based capabilities, increasing the Departments capacity to integrate and share information.
- Contribute to a system to evaluate and validate intelligence products and services to ensure they are meeting decision support requirements of QFES and broader stakeholder groups where relevant.
- Provide support in the maintenance and operational deployment of automatic weather stations and other assets in accordance with relevant QFES doctrine.
- Participate within a dynamic work environment, fostering teamwork and observing human resource activities including actively participating in performance and development programs.

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 - Individual Contributor (leading self)

Vision
- Stimulates ideas and innovation
- Leads change in complex environments

Results
- Develops and mobilises talent
- Builds enduring relationships

Accountability
- Fosters healthy and inclusive workplaces
- Pursues continuous growth

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

- Respect
- Integrity
- Trust
- Courage
- Loyalty
- Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.