Disaster Management Climate Specialist

2 months ago

Brisbane, Australia Suncorp Group Full time

Disaster Management Climate Specialist

  • Brisbane Based
  • Permanent Opportunity

About the role:

We are seeking a talented and motivated Meteorologistist to join our Insurance Claims Disaster Management Team in Brisbane.

The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the interpretation of weather and forecast data, helping to inform our technology strategy for climate data integration and quality, and conducting flood analytics. This position will involve collaboration with the natural peril team to create alignment opportunities and ensure effective disaster response and mitigation strategies.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Utilise expertise in hydrology to analyse weather and forecast data, identifying potential risks to insured properties and informing disaster management decisions
  • Collaborate with the natural peril team to align strategies and create opportunities for enhanced disaster response and mitigation
  • Support the integration of climate data into technology systems and tools, ensuring high quality and accuracy for informed decision-making
  • Conduct flood analytics to assess and predict potential impacts on insured properties and develop strategies for risk mitigation
  • Communicate findings and recommendations to internal stakeholders, including senior management and technology teams.

Key Stakeholder Relationships:

  • Disaster Management Leadership Team
  • Disaster Management Team
  • Home, Motor & Disaster Management Claims Performance Teams
  • Portfolio Prevention & Protection (Home & Motor), including Home Tribe
  • Best In Class Program Tribe
  • Corporate & Regulatory Affairs 
  • Brand & Customer Experience
  • Digital Customers
  • Group Customer Advocate Office 
  • Data science & AI
  • Risk
  • Procurement
  • Technology & Transformation
  • External vendors and technology partners
  • Government agencies and Local government areas (LGA)

About You:

  • Degree in Hydrology, Geography, Environmental Science, or a related field
  • Proven experience in hydrology, weather interpretation, and flood analytics
  • Strong knowledge of climate data integration and quality assurance
  • Experience working in disaster management or insurance claims is preferred
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and build relationships across different departments
  • 3+ years project experience in the Financial Services industry
  • Experience working on large corporate projects
  • Experienced in various project management disciplines (PMBOK, Agile etc.)
  • Experience building successful business relationships within a sponsorship model
  • Experience delivering outcomes in an environment requiring autonomous prioritisation of time and resources across multiple significant initiatives and co-ordination of deliverables across peers and working groups.

Key Capabilities:

Critical and Systems Thinking

  • Manages multiple objectives, initiatives and groups, effectively prioritising time and resources
  • Synthesises pertinent information to plan a course of action and optimises time, tools and resources to achieve desired results
  • Develops solutions and actions by interpreting issues, comparing data and determining causal relationships
  • Seeks out information and breaks down problems and situations into components
  • Triangulate Data for Comprehensive Analysis: the ability to decipher and Integrate and analyse data from weather forecasts, dam water levels, soil capacity, and infrastructure impacts to predict and manage potential natural hazard events effectively.

Leadership

  • Proven ability to adopt a leadership role amongst a peer group to drive team and divisional objectives
  • Ability to coach others to build technical knowledge and expertise
  • Helps peers integrate strategic goals and tactical priorities

Communication and Negotiation

  • Coherently and confidently conveys and explains information at all organisation levels
  • Rapidly identifies stakeholders, analyses their needs and issues, and employs effective strategies to respond
  • Proven ability to employ a constructive and collaborative negotiation style to achieve win-win outcomes in challenging circumstances
  • Promotes open, effective communication among project stakeholders; actively monitors and responds to suboptimal communication

Project Management

  • Implements, monitors, and controls projects, ensuring efficient utilisation of technical and business resources to achieve project objectives
  • Monitors complex or unforeseen dependencies and escalates accordingly
  • Creates plans with clear objectives, actions, accountabilities, resource requirements and timeline
  • Manages senior stakeholders; anticipates and responds to people/business impacts from project deliverables
  • Sound understanding of risk management practices with ability to comprehensively and proactively report progress and discuss risk in a targeted manner to a wide range of stakeholders.

We’re proud to be a part of the Suncorp Group family alongside some of Australia’s most trusted and diverse names in insurance. Together, we share a drive to make the complex simple and bring our customers peace of mind when it matters most – while helping to evolve and innovate the ways we can serve our community every day.

That comes with all kinds of exciting opportunities for you to grow your own career. Whether you’re guiding people through life’s biggest moments or providing them with support in times they need it most, you’ll be driven forward by our shared customer-obsession and supported at every step of the journey.

What we can offer you:

  • Discounts and offers on a range of insurance products
  • A range of flexible working and leave options, including 20 weeks paid parental leave, 4 weeks secondary carer parental leave, and unlimited paid emergency response leave.
  • Invest in your brighter future with ongoing study support and career development programs.
  • Give back to our communities with payroll giving, donation matching and paid volunteer leave.
  • Prioritise your work/life balance with our robust employee assistance program and dedicated employee council.

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