Manager Emergency Planning And Risk

About Southern Rural Water
Southern Rural Water (SRW) is a Victorian water corporation with nearly 170 staff, managing major dams, weirs, water licencing and more from Mallacoota through to the South Australian boarder. Through providing a flexible, always safe workplace and promoting employee development, we empower employees to contribute to our strategy of great value for customers and community through excellence in rural water management.

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements including opportunities to work from home and compressed hour working arrangements.
• Generous leave provisions including 15 days sick leave and 14 weeks paid parental leave.
• Opportunities for growth through internal and external training and development.
• A very supportive work environment including company benefits such as uniforms, flu shots and more.
• Employee Assistance Program providing support for staff and their families.
• Salary sacrifice availability for vehicles, equipment, and superannuation
• See what else we can offer you on our Careers Page!

About the Role

Southern Rural Water are currently seeking an enthusiastic and highly competent individual to fill the role of Manager Emergency Planning and Risk. This position plays a pivotal role in ensuring that SRW has appropriate plans, processes, procedures, tools, skills and infrastructure systems in place to prepare and respond to emergency situations in an all-hazards context. The Manager Emergency Planning and Risk will also lead SRW’s risk management framework, playing an important role in fostering ongoing improvements in risk management strategies to ensure effective minimization of risks.

As the Manager Emergency Planning and Risk, some of your responsibilities will include:

• Manage SRW’s statutory obligations pursuant to Section 5-2 (Managing Incidents and Emergencies) of the Statement of Obligations for Water Corporations.
• Ensure SRW’s Emergency Risk Assessment framework is consistent with, and adheres to, the Water Industry Critical Infrastructure Sector Resilience Risk Assessment.
• Over-see the operation of the corporation's risk management framework and associated decision-making protocols to enable continuous improvements in risk management strategies and the minimisation of risks.
• Ensure that adequate risk management training is provided, so that SRW managers and staff can meet their roles and responsibilities in respect of risk management.
• Prepare quality and informative internal management and board risk and emergency management reports for high-quality decision making.

About you

The successful candidate for this position will be able to demonstrate some of the desired competence and abilities below:

• Demonstrated knowledge of legislation, policies and contemporary theories of emergency management.
• Strong risk analysis skills with experience in Planning and implementation in a risk management and/or emergency management environment.
• Demonstrated leadership skills and experience, with the ability to solve operational, strategic and people focused issues.
• Demonstrated effective judgement and decision-making skills when making complex decisions to support development of best practices.

How to Apply

Applications should be made online by clicking 'Apply' before midnight Sunday 31 March 2024 or by visiting our website: www.srw.com.au

Please take the time to describe how your knowledge, skills and abilities would make you a suitable candidate for this role as part of your cover letter.

A Position Description for this position can be obtained from this link.

Southern Rural Water is committed to diversity and inclusion in employment and is proud to encourage applications from people of different backgrounds, abilities, ages, genders, gender identities and/or sexual orientations.

Southern Rural Water acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters we work with and within, and pay respects to Elders past and present.

We welcome applications from people with disability and aim to provide an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you need any help with the application process or would like to discuss your reasonable adjustments during interviews, please contact: ***************@srw.com.au