Address- Join the lead combat agency for floods, storms and tsunamis.
- Use your operational experience to support volunteers and communities in preparing and responding to emergencies
- Contribute to strategic priorities to enhance the capability and preparedness of operational response.
- Full time ongoing role based at Wagga Wagga
- Salary of up to $133,183 plus a 15% field allowance, superannuation and leave loading.
About the opportunity
The Deputy Zone Commander's role is both operational and strategic in nature. Utilising your strong skills and experience in supporting operational activity, this role will work with a Zone management team, managing and leading volunteers across Units and Clusters to ensure the readiness to respond to operational activity and emergencies. The role is responsible for establishing and maintaining key internal and external relationships such as other emergency service agencies, councils and local communities.
The role will also work with other functional areas of the SES including the Capability & Training and the Volunteer Engagement teams to ensure the Units’ workforce of volunteers are recruited, trained and are prepared to respond to emergencies.
The Deputy Zone Commander may act as the Operations Commander or may be appointed as an Incident Controller. The role requires participation in operational activity, including on-call rosters during operational activity. Travel will be required in this role to visit Units across the Zones of responsibility and deployment to other Zones during operational activity.
About the 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, including reserves, and a full-time equivalent workforce of over 400. 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.
What we can offer you
Wagga Wagga is a vibrant regional centre on the banks of the Murrumbidgee River in the heart of the Riverina, offering many activities to enjoy including a wonderful selection of local cafés and restaurants, markets, botanical gardens, recreation areas and galleries and museums. Wagga is located centrally to Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra in the heart of the Riverina area. There are activities in the local area to cover all interest across all seasons.
There are extensive education options from early childhood through to tertiary, including public and private primary and secondary schools, the TAFE NSW Riverina Institute, Charles Sturt University and Notre Dame NSW Rural Clinical School. Click here to read more about what this amazing regional town has to offer.
The NSW SES Headquarters is in the heart of Wagga Wagga. Our volunteers and staff in the Southern Zone play a critical role in the community areas to ensure communities are kept safe and are prepared for flood and other emergency events. If you want to join an organisation where your work and efforts directly contribute to the community, the NSW SES is the place for you! We offer excellent working conditions, career pathways and other benefits including:
- Ongoing employment with attractive leave entitlements such as paid parental leave, recreation and flex leave and other leave entitlements.
- Flexible work options working within operational requirements.
- Opportunities to build invaluable relationships across emergency service agencies, emergency service committees and other Government and community organisations
- Mental Health & Wellbeing programs and services
How to Apply
Click apply and submit the following documents:
1. A cover letter (no more than two pages) addressing the essential requirements of the role as well as the skills and experience you bring to be successful in the Deputy Zone Commander role and how you are a great fit.
2. An up-to-date resume (no more than four pages).
Find out More
More details about the role and its essential requirements and capabilities can be found in the Role Description here.
If you would like to talk to someone about this role and how you could contribute to supporting the communities of NSW, please reach out to Benjamin Pickup, Zone Commander via email to ***************@one.ses.nsw.gov.au.
Talent Pool
A talent pool may be created through this recruitment process. A talent pool is a group of candidates who have undergone an assessment process and have been identified as suitable for this role or similar roles for a period of 18 months. Being part of a talent pool means that you may be considered for ongoing or temporary employment for a range of similar roles. This offers exciting opportunities for you to gain a wide range of experiences to build your public service career.
For more information on how to apply for a role in the NSW Public Sector please click here.
Applications close: 30 June 2024
The NSW State Emergency Service is a proud employer of a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, cultural background, faith, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. We are committed to reflecting the diverse community we serve and creating an inclusive and flexible workplace. People with disability are supported to access adjustments in recruitment processes and in the workplace, to enable them to demonstrate their skills and capabilities to meet the requirements of the job. As supporters of flexible working, we welcome discussions about how our roles can be undertaken flexibly.
