Chief Executive Officer

1 day ago


Burwood East, Victoria, Australia Triple Zero Victoria Full time $200,000 - $250,000 per year

Job Function: Executive Office

Date Posted: 8 Oct 2025

Job Requisition ID: 2424

  • Prioritise inclusive, visible and people-first leadership
  • Drive exceptional performance and caller experience
  • Collaborate with partners to build community confidence and trust

The Position
Accountable to the Victorian Government through the Board, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) leads the Triple Zero Victoria to achieve its statutory and strategic objectives, ensuring a strong focus on community safety, prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. This includes building organisational capability, fostering strong partnerships across government, emergency services agencies, industry, and communities, and ensuring effective risk management in a complex and dynamic operating environment.

The role requires a forward-looking leader who can balance operational effectiveness with strategic innovation, position the organisation to meet emerging challenges, and prioritises a culture of collaboration, accountability, and service excellence.

The CEO is the public face of the organisation, providing trusted counsel to government, representing the organisation in public forums, and ensuring transparency and confidence in the organisation's work.

We are looking for a proven values driven leader with demonstrated experience and exceptional capability with regards to:

Visionary leadership
to the Executive leadership team and clear strategic direction in line with government and board priorities.

Operational & Service Excellence
ensuring high-quality, efficient emergency services delivery.

Public Administration
providing strong governance, compliance, and accountability frameworks within legislative, regulatory, and integrity obligations.

Health Safety & Wellbeing
promoting health, safety, and wellbeing across all parts of the organisation.

Change & Digital Transformation
driving organisational culture, capability, and change to enhance performance and resilience,

Stakeholder & Reputation
building and maintaining strong partnership with the Board, Minister and government representatives, emergency services agencies, communities, and key stakeholders.

Success in this CEO stewardship role requires extensive executive level leadership experience with a record of achievement in executing strategy and significant change in a multi-disciplinary, diverse organisation, preferably in public sector environments such as health, justice or emergency services.

Tertiary and/or post graduate qualifications are desirable, preferably in Public Sector Administration, Commerce, Finance, Management, or related disciplines.

The Organisation
Triple Zero Victoria (TZV) deliver Victorians an emergency Triple Zero (000) and non-emergency service, 24/7 every day of the year, providing timely and effective call-taking, dispatch, and operational communications.

TZV is a statutory authority under the Triple Zero Victoria Act 2023 and is governed by a Board who is accountable to the Minister for Emergency Services. TZV has approximately 1,275 full-time equivalent (FTE) employees including Emergency Communications Officers.

The organisation has five core values: Community focussed, service excellence, integrity, respect and better together.

For more information on the organisation, please visit:

Applications close: 25 October 2025
Contact details
Initial enquiries and requests for further information may be directed in confidence to Future Leadership's David Baber, Public Sector Senior Partner or Deborah Komesaroff, Health Partner, on

To apply, visit the Future Leadership website ) using reference TZVceo1025
, addressing your cover letter and resume to David Baber of Future Leadership, or call for further information.

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