Community Recovery Officer – Transition Lead (Ao7)

As a result of recent natural disasters impacting Queensland communities, the Department of Treaty, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Communities, and the Arts have a number of temporary vacancies throughout Queensland’s most affected disaster-hit areas.

If you would like to assist communities in human and social recovery, the below opportunities may be of interest to you.

Locations 
 

• Far North Queensland: Cairns, Townsville and/or surrounding regions
• South West Queensland: Dalby and/or surrounding regions
• South East Queensland: Brisbane, Gold Coast and/or surrounding regions

Travel will be required.
  
Background

The Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements (DRFA) is a joint funding initiative of the Australian and state governments to provide disaster relief and recovery payments and infrastructure restoration to help communities recover from the effects of natural disasters and terrorist acts. 

To understand how these relief and recovery measures are classified and categorised, please see Queensland Reconstruction Authority Fact Sheet.
The role of the Community Recovery Officer – Transition Lead is to lead the transition of supports funded under Category A (funding for immediate response to recovery) to delivery of the Category C program of activity (funding for longer-term recovery and resilience). 

Responsibilities include:
 

• From a place-based approach, provide tactical and operational advice, and analysis to the Community Recovery Leadership team on local matters.
• Assist the division in progressing from short term to long term Community Recovery activity by activating linking strategies to progress disaster event related phases; to manage risks and dependencies; and to create interconnected service transition.
• Collaborate with other functional areas in the Division to deliver medium to long term resilience building and preparedness activities.
• Support productive relationships with funded non-government partners, including through contributing to:
• regular performance, and
• review processes and monitoring and evaluation of the program of funding.
• Manage the collection and analysis of local service delivery intelligence and data for reporting, evaluation and in response to governance requests, in a high quality and timely manner.
• Establish and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including achievement of local service improvement and development outcomes and participation on panels for selection of suppliers in partnership with various business areas.

About you

To achieve success in this role, and truly make a difference in your community’s locally informed recovery, you should:
 

• Enjoy being on the ground engaging throughout your community with the ability to both fact-find/gather local community data as well as demonstrate an ability to respectfully and sensitively influence your stakeholders.
• Demonstrate capability in areas such as project management, change management, program/service delivery and effective collaboration and engagement with communities.
• Be comfortable in a fast-changing, challenging and sometimes ambiguous environment – you are ok with uncertainty.
• Be able to navigate a complex service system environment with the ability to make appropriate referrals and provide support across government systems and frameworks.
• You will be able to communicate effectively with diverse members of the community with an appreciation for cultural awareness, knowledge, protocols and sensitivities.
• Whilst not essential, a background in Government and/or Not-for-Profit service delivery environments would be well regarded.

For more information, please visit: 

https://www.ontalent.com.au/dtatsipca/

Enquiries can be made to Donna Bliss on 07 3305 5*** or Jessica Dixon-Banfield on 07 3305 5***.
  
Please note – we strongly encourage enquiries and applications from people with diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal peoples and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Due to the critical nature of these recent natural disaster events, we will be reviewing your application upon receipt and urge applicants to apply as soon as possible.
  
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