Senior Regional Recovery Officer, Grampians

• Great opportunity to join the Emergency Recovery Victoria, Regional Recovery Coordination team in the Grampians Region
• Ongoing, full-time position
• VPS5 $106,534 - $128,897 plus superannuation

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Senior Regional Recovery Officer, Grampians to join the Emergency Recovery Victoria, Regional Recovery Coordination team in the Grampians Region.

About the Business Unit

Emergency Recovery Victoria (ERV) is responsible for state and regional coordination for all emergencies to help communities build back better and emerge stronger. ERV is a business unit within the Department of Justice and Community Safety. Working directly with impacted communities, all levels of government, agencies and industry, ERV coordinates real, effective and timely support that communities need to recover after a major emergency. As well as providing strategic leadership on whole-of-government recovery activities and delivering state recovery outcomes, ERV supports locally led recovery efforts to support councils and ensure that community is at the centre of recovery.

About the Role

The Grampians Senior Regional Recovery Officer is an integral part of the Regional Recovery team that manages divisional and Regional Recovery planning and recovery response for ERV.

Some of your duties will include:

• Representation of ERV at regional planning meetings and other meetings as required
• Assisting and delivering regional emergency recovery planning and operations (as directed by the Regional Recovery Manager) and maintaining business continuity, readiness, training, and occupational health, safety & wellbeing for the regional teams.
• Provide timely expert advice and develop open and effective communication strategies including collection of highly complex, contentious or sensitive information on business matters.
• Maintain an understanding of issues impacting ERV recovery activities and community resilience and recovery.
• Prepare high quality operational reporting for executives and stakeholders.
• Assist local governments to optimise community outcomes including by assisting them to understand and excel at recovery funding protocols and processes.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Emergency management experienced.
• Region based with exceptional relationship management and engagement capability to establish and maintain trust in partnerships.
• Effective verbal and written communicator with strong planning and report writing skills
• Self motivated, flexible and adaptable to constant change in the environment.

Qualifications

• A tertiary qualification in fields related to emergency management, community services, community engagement or business management highly desirable.
• Experience in disaster recovery highly desirable.
• A Victorian driver's licence is required. This role requires work-related travel across metropolitan and regional Victoria, on occasion at very short notice. The department will consider all reasonable adjustments for candidates with a disability. 

How to Apply

Please click the Apply button on this advertisement. Applications should include a resume and covering letter. Attachments can be uploaded in .doc, .docx, .pdf, .txt or .rtf formats.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo pre-employment checks which may include national police checks and misconduct screening.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process, or require an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with the contact person listed on this ad.

FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES

For this particular vacancy, priority consideration applies to Victorian Public Service (VPS) and select employees of the Victorian Public Sector who apply through the Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) jobs board platform.

For all VPS employees, due to the new Jobs Skills Exchange (JSE) policy, please apply through the JSE to be eligible to be considered for this position in the first round. 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT: 

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.